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Russia’s top court has vacated the sentence of Ildar Dadin – the first person jailed under a recently adopted law which harshens the penalty for repeated violations of the rules for public rallies and marches.

A source in the Russian Presidential Administration has denied rumors that early elections will be held, adding that the official announcement of the beginning of the election campaign will be made in accordance with the law.

A Russian ruling party lawmaker has drafted a bill allowing Russian citizenship to be granted to children with one Russian parent without the consent of their foreign parent, even when the family in question permanently resides abroad.

Nearly a quarter of Russian citizens think their country should officially recognize the self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk Republics as independent states, but over a third of respondents say Russia should maintain neutrality over the issue.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has assured governors who have recently resigned that he will personally help them to apply their experience and skills for Russia’s benefit, and asked them to help their successors to settle in as soon as possible.

The head of Russia’s upper house Committee for International Relations wants to discuss Syria at the upcoming session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union – a global inter-parliamentary forum – in order to gain the coordinated support of the world community.

The chairman of the Presidential Human Rights Council says he and his colleagues intend to ask the parliament to change the law so that activists can inspect prisons and penal colonies, and look into complaints of violations.

Top Russian officials have rejected accusations that Moscow violated an arms control treaty by deploying cruise missiles, saying that the people spreading the rumors were targeting the possible thaw in Russia-US relations.

Several senior Russian MPs have denied that Russia played any role in the recent resignation of US President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, saying that the scandal was a provocation targeting Russia-US relations.

Thirty-two percent of Russians think the period beginning with Vladimir Putin’s first presidency is the best their country has enjoyed in a century, according to a poll conducted to mark the centenary of the Bourgeois-Democratic Revolution of 1917.