MOSCOW – Russia may be having its Me Too moment amid a backlash over the decision of a parliamentary ethics committee to dismiss sexual harassment allegations against a senior legislator.
Russian media organizations, including Kommersant, Vedomosti and RBC dailies, Echo Moskvy radio, TV Rain, RTVI and Znak.com, said they would either boycott the lower house of parliament or refuse coverage of the deputy, Leonid Slutsky, and members of the State Duma committee that cleared him of any breach of ethics.
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