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Russia’s ex-finance minister Alexei Kudrin criticized on Thursday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s remarks regarding the white ribbons worn by protesters at recent nationwide rallies against alleged electoral fraud.
American director Woody Allen began shooting his latest movie in Paris on Monday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday said a European Parliament resolution calling for new State Duma elections “means nothing.” 
After Wimbledon Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova came to Belarus. 
Interdepartmental group against corruption is formed · 2007-02-05 15:48
Russia’s president has formed an interdepartmental group to draft amendments to the law on corruption as part of a national anti-corruption campaign, the Kremlin press service said Monday.
The group led by presidential aide Viktor Ivanov must be completed by February 15 and must submit its proposals on how to bring Russian laws in line with the UN Convention against Corruption and the Council of Europe Criminal Law Convention on Corruption by August 1.
The anti-corruption campaign in the country has resulted in about 600 bribery and embezzlement cases, which have been opened since July after president Vladimir Putin, who has set the fight against corruption as a national priority, ordered the new prosecutor general, Yury Chaika, to draw up an anti-corruption strategy.
First Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Buksman said in November that annual corruption in Russia had reached $240 billion, a sum almost equal to the federal budget, RIA Novosti informs.
• Russia-EU relations to be discussed in Moscow
• New charges for Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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