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Russia's Ministry of Culture has ordered a study into "Russophobia and de-Russification," the TASS news agency reported on June 30. The study, which is set to cost 1.9 million rubles ($29,000), will look at "the strengthening of russophobic discourse both abroad and within Russia as a reaction to the era of the revival of the Russian state."

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