MOSCOW: A bill that would have branded Russian media outlets that receive more than 50 percent of their funding from abroad as “foreign agents” was withdrawn from consideration in the State Duma on Tuesday.

The bill’s authors said they had decided to reintroduce the legislation at a later date with a lower threshold for qualification as a foreign agent.

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