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Matviyenko Wants a State Committee on Ethnic Relations

September 12, 2014

Staunton, September 12 – In the wake of Vladimir Putin’s dissolution of the Regional Affairs Ministry and his distribution of its functions to various other ministries, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko has called for the creation of a state committee on inter-ethnic relations, although she says that whether that happens will be up to the […]