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RUSSIA. UNITED RUSSIA WANTS TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY BEFORE 2007, RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARIAN

the United Russia party was making concrete efforts to abolish death penalty in Russia before 2007, a member of the Russian parliament said at the opening of the Assistance to the Formation of the New Europe international seminar in Pskov.

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the United Russia party was making concrete efforts to abolish death penalty in Russia before 2007, a member of the Russian parliament said at the opening of the Assistance to the Formation of the New Europe international seminar in Pskov.
Mikhail Margelov, the chairman of the Federation Council Committee for Foreign Affairs, said, "The United Russia party is working actively to ensure the legal abolishment of death penalty by the Russian parliament in its current composition before 2007 elections."
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  • (Sources: RIA Novosti, 28/08/2005)