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The chairman of the Russian Lower House, Sergey Naryshkin, has backed the idea of a future merger between the Russian Federation and the European Union, and suggested immediately starting consultations on the matter.
Naryshkin expressed his position in a column published in the Tuesday issue of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.