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Russian President Vladimir Putin has amended the list of state secrets, approved under a presidential decree of November 30, 1995. The corresponding document has been published on the official portal of official legal information.

In particular, the phrase "information disclosing losses in manpower in wartime" has been complemented with the amendment reading "in peacetime during special operations."

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...On Wednesday, Vladimir Kara-Murza, a thirty-three-year-old opposition journalist, was hospitalized in critical condition after he collapsed at his office in Moscow. He was diagnosed with renal failure that had resulted from acute intoxication. Put more simply, the problem was poison.

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Attacks by poisoning are possibly even more common in Russia than assassinations by gunfire.
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Last week, British newspapers reported that a Russian businessman who dropped dead while jogging in a London suburb in 2012 had been killed by a rare plant poison. He had been a key witness in a money-laundering case that had originally been exposed by the Moscow accountant Sergei Magnitsky, who was tortured to death, in 2009, in a Russian jail.

Two years before Politkovskaya was shot, she suffered multiple-organ failure after ingesting a poison, still unidentified, with tea served to her on a Russian plane. Yuri Shchekochikhin, her colleague at the investigative weekly Novaya Gazeta, died in a Moscow hospital, in 2003, as the result of an apparent poisoning. In 2008, a lawyer who specializes in bringing Russian cases to the European Court of Human Rights, Karinna Moskalenko, fell ill in Strasbourg; her husband and two small children were also unwell. The cause of their illness was identified as mercury that had somehow found its way into their car.

Moskalenko was one of the lead lawyers in the defense of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oil tycoon who had become Putin’s most famous political prisoner.

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Like the Soviet regime before it, the Putin government spreads fear by destroying the illusion that one can protect oneself. So Open Russia’s leaders think that they can use a loophole in the law to keep themselves safe? the message seems to be. Let’s see how safe they feel after one of them is poisoned.

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In elections to the local council in Kaliningrad Oblast's Baltisky district, the ruling United Russia party failed to secure even a single seat. Turnout was 47.7 percent, unusually high for a local council election.

The online newspaper Gazeta.ru called it "a crushing defeat" for the party of power.

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!!! COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE @pytkam_net UNDER ATTACK IN GROZNY !!! #Chechnya

People were assembled in front of offices of Committee against Torture. They didn't know why. Standing, talking.

Then the crowd moved to face the Committee against Torture offices, with signs. Some masked men in crowd. No police.

Then shouts & slogans. Masked men smash official car belonging to the Committee against Torture with sledgehammers.

They used crowbars to break into building & painted over the door viewer of the Committee against Torture's office.

They're climbing onto the balcony, trying to break the window #CommitteeAgainstTorture #Chechnya

Now the masked men are trying to break down the office door. #CommitteeAgainstTorture #Chechnya

They've broken into the office and are now smashing everything. Staff has escaped through the window. #Chechnya

Masked men still rampaging through office, smashing everything. No police around. #CommitteeAgainstTorture #Chechnya

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