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Russian MPs have backed an amnesty that may include some of the country's best-known prisoners including Pussy Riot and the Greenpeace Arctic protesters. The State Duma in Moscow unanimously approved the law at its third reading and it is expected to come into force within days. It covers at least 20,000 prisoners, including minors, invalids, veterans, pregnant women, and mothers. Charges against 30 people arrested on a Greenpeace ship may be dropped. The 30 mostly foreign nationals were recently released from custody but not allowed to leave Russia. | 
