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The Russian nationalist party LDPR has reelected Vladimir Zhirinovsky as its leader, with the 70-year-old immediately starting preparations for the 2018 presidential campaign by proposing to cut the number of Duma MPs.

Russia’s top federal investigative agency has begun a criminal case into the deaths of civilians in Donetsk that were reportedly the result of shelling by Ukrainian government forces on February 1-3.

A senior representative of Russia’s Federal Security Service says the agency has prepared a bill to put additional responsibility on businesses that own critical elements of the national data structure, adding the state alone cannot guarantee protection.

A Russian senator sponsoring the bill to decriminalize first-time domestic violence has told RT that the public and media resistance to the draft began because of a campaign launched by NGOs competing for Russian and foreign funds.

The Russian upper house has called on the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, to put an end to the aggressive actions of the military and ensure Ukraine fulfills its obligations within the Minsk Agreements.

Almost half of the Russian public believes the ban on Muslim headdress in schools should be lifted, but an equal share says authorities should not allow kids to demonstrate their religious allegiances in schools.

The deputy speaker of the Russian State Duma says the US Congress is “transfixed on war and destruction,” after it issued an order to evaluate the ‘survivability’ of Russian and Chinese leaders in the event of a nuclear exchange.

A court in the central Russian city of Kirov has ordered opposition activist Aleksey Navalny to be forcefully summoned to hearings on his re-trial over a 2013 corruption case involving a state-owned timber company.

Russian citizens are still mostly concerned about possible international conflicts and price hikes, but general nervousness is on the decline, according to the most recent poll.

Some 2,000 people took part in a rally against the handover of St. Isaac’s Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church. Protesters fear the Church will not maintain the public museum function of the iconic building which is a popular tourist attraction.