Russian lawmakers rejected hate crimes legislation that would have tightened laws against anti- Semitism and other forms of ethnic hatred. In response to the failure of the measure, which received only 138 of the 226 votes needed to pass, a Jewish legislator resigned from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s faction.
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