Putin Ally Resigns As Speaker Of Parliament

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The NY Times reports:

The chairman of Russia’s ruling party, United Russia, resigned from his post as speaker of the lower house of Parliament on Wednesday, an apparent effort to quell some of the uproar over perceived fraud in recent parliamentary elections.

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