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Emanuelis Zingeris, a Lithuanian lawmaker appointed by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) as a special rapporteur for the Boris Nemtsov murder case, has been banned from entering Russia.
Russia bans entry to Lithuanian PACE rapporteur for Nemtsov murder case
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"I have just been informed that I have been deprived of the right to enter the Russian Federation for five years," Zingeris said at a news conference on Thursday.

The lawmaker said that the Kremlin's decision derailed his plans to go to Moscow to collect material on the murder of the Russia

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