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Russia high court blacklists north Africa al Qaeda group Leslie Schulman at 7:48 AM ET [JURIST] The Russian Supreme Court [official site, in Russian] classified northern Africa group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) [CFR backgrounder] as a terrorist organization in a ruling [press release, in Russian] Thursday, prohibiting the organization from conducting activities in Russia. The court ruled after the Russian Prosecutor General [official website] asked the court to ban the organization and put it on a national blacklist of terrorist groups [RFE/RL backgrounder]. RIA Novosti has more. Link | 
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