MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree banning demonstrations and rallies in Sochi for two and a half months around the Winter Olympics.The decree, published in the government newspaper Friday, says all “gatherings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets” that are not part of the Olympics or Paralympics will be prohibited in Sochi from Jan. 7 to March 21.
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