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Russia May Overturn Expulsion of French Author

23:09 13/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 13 (RIA Novosti)

The head of Russia’s Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovsky has not ruled out the possibility that a decision to expel prominent French journalist and writer Anne Nivat from Russia may be overturned.

Playing Nationalist Card May Be ‘Fatal’ for Russia - Putin
16:09 27/01/2012
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin urged on Friday his challengers in the presidential race to drop nationalist slogans, warning of the possibly “fatal” consequences of fuelling Russian chauvinism.1
Migration Service, Election Commission to Check Voter Lists
15:00 27/01/2012
Russia's Federal Migration Service and Central Election Commission are to set up a special group to monitor the situation in Dagestan and St Petersburg after a high level of irregularities were found in voter registration lists there, Election Committee head Vladimir Churov said on Friday.
Foreigners working in Moscow may be fingerprinted
09:49 20/10/2011
All foreigners employed in Moscow will have their fingerprints taken if a joint proposal by the capital’s migration body and the Interior Ministry is adopted, a city hall source said on Thursday.

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