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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.
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Federation council to hear law on euthanasia · 2007-04-17 18:40
A bill is being prepared in the Federation Council to permit euthanasia in the Russia, Kommersant informed.
If it is passed into law, a terminally ill person may end his life, if a board of doctors and then a council consisting of doctors, lawyers and representatives of the Prosecutor General’s Office agree.
Initiator of the legislation Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy Valentina Petrenko told Kommersant that euthanasia would be permitted “for the most exceptional cases.”
“Managing your life is every person’s right,” Alexander Saversky, chairman of the Federal Health and Social Development Supervisory Service said
Father Vladimir Vigilyansky, press secretary of the Russian Orthodox Church said that “Christian conscience does not accept the participation of second parties in a person’s death for any reason??¦ The Church will oppose this sinful law.”
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