Russia is drafting a law to ban political parties that support political extremism, the nation’s justice minister announced. The move came after the lower house of Parliament refused to censure a Communist lawmaker’s anti- Semitic remarks. But it remains unclear whether the drafted law will make any specific mention of anti-Semitism.
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