5 November 2013 Russian politician says wants to be cloned for nations sake Vladimir Zhirinovsky Pet puppies cloned for order Leader of the Russian Liberal Democrats Vladimir Zhirinovsky said on Friday cloning should be permitted in Russia and proposed cloning himself for the nations benefit. The State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, passed a government bill on Friday prolonging a moratorium on human cloning, which had been lifted in 2002 and expired in June 2007. The law to be amended does not prohibit the cloning of cells and organisms for scientific and research purposes, human organs for transplantation, as well as the cloning of animals. Scientists should work, we should not be afraid. Cloning is a remedy for humanity... Let us grow people and take their organs to replace [those damaged], the controversial senior lawmaker said during a live broadcast on Russia 24 TV channel. We should clone clever, talented people, a list of people to be cloned should be created. We should have new Einsteins, Kurchatovs, Tsiolkovskys, Yesenins, Pushkins, he went on. He said he personally would be happy to be cloned. This would be good, this would be a benefit for the nation, he said, adding the Liberal Democratic Party would seek for the ban to be cancelled. Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko US Seizes Ex-Ukraine PM’s $6M California Mansion US authorities have confiscated the $6.75 million California mansion of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko in connection with his money laundering conviction nearly a decade ago and have also sanctioned the seizure of a Pablo Picasso lithograph that he is believed to own. Arctic Sunrise (archive) Judge from UK to Hear Greenpeace Activists’ Case in Int’l Court David Anderson of the United Kingdom was on Monday appointed an ad hoc judge in a case against Russia’s detention of Greenpeace activists, to be heard by an international maritime tribunal later this week. Giorgi Margvelashvili Georgian President-Elect Snubs Predecessor’s Luxury Palace Georgia’s president-elect said he would not move to the luxury palace currently occupied by his predecessor and would choose a more modest residence after taking office, News Georgia reported on Monday. Ebay page EBay Apologizes Over Sale of Holocaust Items The online auction site eBay has apologized after a Ukrainian-born man in Canada was discovered trying to sell purported Nazi death camp memorabilia on the site, including what he said was the uniform of a Polish baker who died in Auschwitz.
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