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(Adnkronos) – Just Russia, the party of the ‘systemic opposition’, meaning the fake opposition tolerated by the Kremlin which in fact always votes as requested in the lower house of Parliament, does not exceed the five percent electoral threshold.   According to

(Adnkronos) – The outgoing State Duma ‘speaker’ Vyacheslav Volodin has been re-elected with over 92 percent of the votes for a single-mandate seat in the Saratov constituency, according to the vote count results, relating to the tabulation of just over 4 percent

(Adnkronos) – Three South Korean officers were injured in an explosion near the border with North Korea. The Seoul army announced this, specifying that the incident occurred south of the Military Demarcation Line within the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), one of the most

Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–Former Japanese internal affairs minister Yoshimasa Hayashi is drawing attention within the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party over his next move after leaving the cabinet in a reshuffle on Thursday. Of the four candidates who ran against Prime

Kanazawa, Ishikawa Pref., Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–People in Ishikawa Prefecture observed a moment of silence Monday for the victims of torrential rains that struck the northern part of the Noto Peninsula in the central Japan prefecture two years ago. The disaster left

Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the Japanese opposition Democratic Party for the People, will visit Ukraine on Monday, his office said. Tamaki will be the first leader of a Japanese opposition party to visit Ukraine since Russia invaded the

Manila, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–A 90-year-old second-generation Japanese woman born in the Philippines who was separated from her father after World War II is planning to visit his native Okinawa Prefecture in southernmost Japan for the first time by the end of

Kanazawa, Ishikawa Pref., Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–People in Ishikawa Prefecture observed a moment of silence Monday for the victims of torrential rains that struck the northern part of the Noto Peninsula in the central Japan prefecture two years ago. The disaster left

Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)–Needy households in Japan live on an average food expenditure of less than 500 yen per person a day amid lingering inflation, according to a survey by Save the Children Japan, a nongovernmental organization. The survey, conducted in

Manila, Sept. 20 (Jiji Press)–Economy ministers from Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed at a meeting in Manila on Sunday to begin a study on expanding the Japan-ASEAN economic partnership agreement, Japan’s Ryosei Akazawa said after the meeting. Participants