Via Moscow Times:
Russia does not consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told a press conference Sunday, the Interfax news agency reported.
"We maintain contacts and relations with [Hezbollah] because we do not consider them a terrorist organization. They have never committed any terrorist attacks on Russian territory," Bogdanov was cited as saying.
Bogdanov said Hezbollah and Hamas — the main Palestinian armed resistance group — had both been democratically elected and were “legitimate societal-political forces.”
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The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FJCR) says in response that "Dividing terrorists into 'ours' and 'theirs' is a road obviously leading to erroneous decisions in the cause of fighting terror. This is not the road that will allow us to defeat terror at the international level".
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