Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that the Taliban is the "real power" in Afghanistan.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that the Taliban is the "real power" in Afghanistan and the group's possible removal from Moscow's list of banned organizations reflects "objective reality," the TASS state news agency reported.
TASS reported on Monday that Russian ministries had advised President Vladimir Putin that Moscow could remove the Taliban from the list.
Moscow also invited the Taliban to a top economic forum in St Petersburg next month.
Purges of military leaders may have dented China's war-fighting readiness, but are likely to have strengthened President Xi Jinping's grip on an institution that is a key source of power for the ruling Communist Party, diplomats and analysts say.
The pro-Putin ruling United Russia party retained its decisive majority in the national parliament, near-complete election results showed on Monday, while the anti-war Yabloko party appeared to have won a tiny foothold in one regional parliament.
Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been re-elected to a fifth term as leader of his southern, mainly Muslim region of Chechnya with almost 100% of the vote, Russia's electoral commission said on Monday.
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