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Even so, more came, said Vladimir Ryzhkov, an independent Russian parliamentarian, than a Moscow rally would muster.
ECONOMIST: Another meaningless victory for the president of Belarus
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Legislator Vladimir Ryzhkov agrees Russia today is not the Soviet Union, under which Party officials decided even such matters as whether to allow husbands and wives to divorce.
NPR: Russia Under Putin: Echoes of the Soviet Era
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The mission to check on the American detainees was proposed earlier this month by Vladimir Ryzhkov, deputy speaker of the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament.
CNN: GOP lawmaker criticizes White House rebuff of POW mission
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Last month the Russian justice ministry announced that it was refusing to register the People's Freedom Party, a coalition created by four former members of previous Russian governments: Mikhail Kasyanov, Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Ryzhkov and Vladimir Milov.
BBC: MEPs' fears for Russian elections