Court rejects appeals from Russian ‘foreign agents’

A journalist, a comedian and a musician had requested to be removed from the register Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky Court has officially dismissed the requests of three Russian celebrities to be removed from the national register of “foreign agents.”

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Politician calls for end to children’s homework

Vladislav Davankov, the deputy speaker of Russia’s lower chamber of parliament, has argued that school homework should be banned in order to give students and teachers more free time.  “When my son learned that I had become an MP, he immediately asked me to draft a law that would abolish homework. Today, during a meeting…

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US avoids debt default

The Senate has approved raising the government spending limit ahead of a looming deadline A last-minute deal aimed at averting the first-ever US default was approved by the Senate late on Thursday. The bipartisan bill to raise the country’s debt limit was passed by 63 votes to 36, one day after clearing the US House…

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