Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed a decree that presidential and parliamentary elections will take place on January 24.

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The maps are to be attached to a long-overdue presidential decree meant to formalise the moratorium.

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But on April 16th a presidential decree established formal legal ties with both places.

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Depardieu's Russian citizenship was granted to him personally by presidential decree, Russia's official news agency RIA Novosti reported.

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