According to the law, municipal leaders may be fired for failing to stifle ethnic tensions.
The draft bill was submitted to the State Duma, the Russian parliament's lower house, last February. It aims to ensure guarantees for human rights and liberties regardless of race, nationality, faith and other issues. The draft empowers regional authorities to take care of ethnic minorities, their cultures and traditions, to take measures for socio-cultural adaptation of immigrants, and to make efforts to prevent ethnic tensions.
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