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Aware that popular support for the death penalty is high, Russia has been slow to comply with the obligation to abolish capital punishment it assumed upon joining the Council of Europe. Although executions appear to have stopped in August 1996, the courts are continuing to hand down death sentences, and the Russian parliament is unlikely […]