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Russia’s Alexei Navalny barred from presidential flee

The Russian election committee has barred opposition leader Alexei Navalny from running for president in the 2018 presidential elections. In a unanimous 12-0 ruling with one person abstaining, the committee cited a conviction for fraud as the reason Navalny could not take part as a presidential candidate. Directly after Monday’s decision, Navalny called for a…