Deputies Pass Raft of Bills On Last Day of State Duma, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES

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Anna Dolgov
The St. Petersburg Times (Russia)
12-02-2003
MOSCOW - To the strains of the national anthem, a half-empty State Duma
on Friday ended its last session before new elections of Dec. 7, having
rushed through a last-minute flurry of largely economic measures.
In the chamber, which emptied through the day as deputies left to go
on the campaign stump, a handful of opposition lawmakers were drowned out
by a chorus of self-congratulation from pro-Kremlin lawmakers.
Deputies passed the final readings of bills on the 2004 budget, bank
deposit insurance and cutting stock market trading fees.
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