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Russian lawmakers bridle at etiquette: Ethics code has been resisted in Duma, where insults, fistfights were common.

Byline: Erika Niedowski

Feb. 26--MOSCOW -- There has been heckling and the occasional head-butt, hurled water bottles and indecorous insults, bloody noses and at least one concussion. Lawmaking in Russia's State Duma is not a pretty sight. Neither is the attempt to make it prettier. Once, during debate of an ethics matter, one lawmaker called a colleague "the No. 1 political prostitute" and railed against the ethics committee for "political whoredom" -- after which a fistfight broke out. The adolescent post-Soviet parliament has become somewhat more civil with age. Only one fight has erupted in the current four-year session, compared with 10 in the first Duma, ...

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