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MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - Bills...

MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - Bills on tougher punishments for pedophiles and on responsibility for making, distributing and acquiring child pornography have been submitted to the lower house of Russia"s parliament. A group of lawmakers led by First Deputy State Duma Speaker Oleg Morozov and family affairs committee head Yelena Mizulina, as well as other members of parliament, submitted the draft laws. Mizulina told RIA Novosti that the bill, drawn up to counter pornography production and distribution, introduces the notion "child pornography", and differentiates responsibility. "Today the law does not define what child pornography is. We will introduce this definition," she said. The bill also envisions criminal responsibility for storing and acquiring child pornography. "If people don"t buy it, people won"t produce it," Mizulina said. The bills were developed with the participation of Russia"s Public Chamber.


MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russia...

MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russia marks on Monday the fourth anniversary of the Beslan school tragedy during which 331 people died, including 186 children.


Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and UN...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said on Thursday they hoped a new nuclear disarmament agreement replacing the START 1 treaty will be signed soon.

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A Moscow court ordered on Friday that Yukos...

Khodorkovsky, 45, and Lebedev, 42, are already serving eight-year prison terms for tax evasion and fraud issued by a Moscow court in 2005 after a highly politicized trial seen by many in the West as part of a Kremlin drive to subdue politically ambitious business tycoons.

Both were moved in 2009 from prison in Siberia to Moscow"s notorious Matrosskaya Tishina jail to face new charges of embezzling 350 million tons of oil. Since then, their stay in the pretrial detention center has been repeatedly prolonged despite complaints from their lawyers.

Moscow"s Khamovniki District Court on Friday authorized keeping Khodorkovsky and Lebedev in pretrial detention until May 17.

"The court took into account the severity of the charges Khodorkovsky and Lebedev face when considering extending their detention," presiding judge Viktor Danilkin said.

Russian officials have consistently denied any political motivation behind their convictions, but the fate of Khodorkovsky

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