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Country was suspended from body last year after Ukraine invasion but scale of support for readmittance will worry Kyiv and allies
Russia has been defeated in its bid to regain a seat in the UN’s top human rights body by a significant majority at the general assembly, which voted last year to suspend Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine.
Russia was competing against Albania and Bulgaria for two seats on the Geneva-based human rights council representing the East European regional group.
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