Russia moved a step closer towards recognising the (IEA) on Tuesday as its parliament voted in favour of a law that would make it possible to remove the IEA from Moscow’s list of banned terrorist organisations.
Parliament’s lower house, the Duma, approved the bill in the first of three required readings, Interfax news agency said.
No country currently recognises the IEA government which regained power in August 2021.
But Russia has been gradually building ties with the new government, which President Vladimir Putin said in July was now an ally in fighting terrorism.
