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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.


CSKA Moscow"s victory in Spain will inspire...

CSKA Moscow"s victory in Spain will inspire Rubin when they face Wolfsburg on Thursday for a place in the Europa League quarterfinals, the Russian champions" coach Kurban Berdyev said on Wednesday.


Around 30 avalanches have come down on the...

Around 30 avalanches have come down on the Transcaucasian highway, cutting off the only direct road between Russia and South Ossetia, a spokeswoman for North Ossetia"s emergencies ministry said on Tuesday.

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A proposed merger between the two largest...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed on Friday the creation of a joint holding between Russia"s energy giant Gazprom and Ukraine"s gas monopoly Naftogaz. His Ukrainian counterpart Mykola Azarov called it "an impromptu move" on Putin"s part but pledged to consider the proposal.

The Ukrainian opposition was quick to criticize the idea.

"Attempting to solve the gas row like this is like curing a headache by splitting it into four," Russian news site gzt.ru quoted deputy head of the Ukrainian parliament"s fuel committee Mikhail Volynets as saying. "The creation of the joint venture means the de-facto acquisition of Naftogaz by Gazprom and thus the loss of Ukrainian energy independence."

Member of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc party Volynets said Putin"s proposal has nothing to do with gas prices or European supplies.

"Putin wants to take advantage of the political situation in Ukraine and Yanukovych"s [political] weakness...Don"t forget his initiative

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