RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Nov 22, 2018
TODAY: Duma approves new budget, expecting $62bn surplus, as Kremlin study reveals 1 in 5 live in poverty. Rapper arrested for parking lot performance. National Guard gets $1m laser vans for dispersing protesters. Communist candidate barred from running in re-vote he helped organise. Proposal to change National Security Council nuclear weapons rules. Lavrov blasts West over chemical weapons convention. GRU head dies.