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RadioFreeEurope Friday 18th November, 2011
MOSCOW -- Russian lawmakers have decriminalized defamation and slander and made threatening journalists a criminal offense punishable by up to six years in jail, in a move praised by international observers hopeful of an improvement in Russia's adverse media climate. But rights activists in Russia remain skeptical the legal changes will brin...
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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.
Barack Obama
The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.
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