A Moscow court on Monday issued a warrant for the arrest of Abbas Gallyamov, a former speechwriter for Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has since been declared a foreign agent. The Basmanny District Court in Moscow ordered Gallyamov’s arrest in absentia, on grounds that he spread fake news about the Russian military.

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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…