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Deputies meet

Saturday 31 July 1993 23:02 BST
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MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian deputies began, then suspended for five days, a poorly attended emergency session of parliament yesterday amid rising tensions between MPs and the government. Deputies ratified a decree by President Boris Yeltsin prolonging a state of emergency in North Ossetia and Ingushetia.

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