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Jul 17 / 4:45am

FSB Halfway to Absolute Power

by Kerkko Paananen

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The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, today passed on third reading a measure that dramatically expands the powers of the FSB, a measure that Russian rights activists are urging President Dmitry Medvedev not to sign. Under the terms of the measure, the FSB in cases where there is no evidence of a crime can declare any Russian of being engaged in "impermissible actions which create the conditions for the committing of a crime," a declaration that opens the way to arbitrary actions against people.

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