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Grigory Melkonyants, leader of Russia’s Golos independent election monitoring group, stands in the

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MOSCOW( Reuters)-Russia's Justice Ministry said on Wednesday that it has declared the Golos independent vote-monitoring movement as a" foreign agent", just a month before the parliamentary election. Golos in 2013 had been among the first non-governmental organizations to be declared as a foreign agent, which effectively suspended its operations.It had since been reorganized as a civil movement and resumed its work." We have no doubts that the current attack on the largest community of independen