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[EX Q]: MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was barred on Monday from running in next year’s presidential election after officials ruled he was ineligible to take part due to a suspended prison sentence he says was trumped up.
The decision by the central election commission was widely expected as election officials had repeatedly declared  Navalny  would be ineligible to run. Twelve members of the 13-member commission voted to bar  Navalny . One member abstained  citing a possible conflict of interest.
 Navalny   41  who polls show would struggle to beat incumbent Vladimir Putin in the March election  said he would appeal and called on his supporters to boycott the election and campaign against it being held.
“We knew this could happen  and so we have a straight-forward  clear plan ”  Navalny  said in a pre-recorded video released immediately after the decision.
 Navalny  said  he  would use  his  campaign headquarters across Russia to support the boycott and monitor turnout on voting day  March 18.
Polls show Putin  65  who has dominated Russia’s political landscape for the last 17 years  is on course to be comfortably re-elected  making  him  eligible to serve another six years until 2024  when  he  turns 72.
 Navalny  says Putin’s support is exaggerated and artificially maintained by a biased state media and an unfair system. He says he could defeat him in a fair election  an assertion Putin’s supporters have said is laughable.
‘DO  THE RIGHT THING’
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny  speaks to the media after submitting  his  documents to be registered as a presidential candidate at the Central Election Commission in Moscow  Russia December 24  2017. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva
Before the commission voted   Navalny   dressed in a dark suit  had demanded  he  be allowed to take part in the election delivering a speech that angered election officials.
In one heated exchange   he  said Russian voters’ faith in the system hung in the balance.
“If you do not allow me to run  you are taking a decision against millions of people who are demanding that  Navalny  take part ”  he  said  referring to  himself  in the first person.
“You are not robots  you are living  breathing human beings you are an independent body ... for once in your lives  do the right thing ”  he  said.
 His  supporters clapped  him   but officials were unmoved.
Ebzeev said there could not be “the slightest doubt” that  Navalny  was ineligible to run  a reference to Russia’s constitution that bars him running because of his suspended sentence relating to an embezzlement case.
 Navalny  has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing  and says the case is politically motivated.
[EX A]: Alexei Navalny

[EX Q]: When Ames Mayfield's Cub Scout den met with a Colorado state senator last week  the 11-year-old came prepared with a long list of typed-up questions. He excitedly raised his hand to ask his first one.
 Ames  pressed the Republican state senator  Vicki Marble  on an issue he knew was important to her: gun legislation. The Cub Scout in Broomfield  about 20 miles north of Denver  asked her a slew of questions about previous bills she had sponsored in support of the right to bear arms  and he wasn't shy about inserting his opinion.
"I was shocked that you co-sponsored a bill to allow domestic violence offenders to continue to own a gun "  Ames  said  according to a video posted to YouTube by  his  mother. "Why on earth would you want someone who beats their wife to have access to a gun?"
After  Ames 's questions went on for more than two minutes  a leader in his group cut him off to allow the state senator to answer. Both the senator and the leader commended him for his "thorough" list of questions.
But after the meeting  the leader of  Ames 's Cub Scout pack  which oversees various dens  requested a meeting with his mother. The leader told  Ames 's mother  Lori Mayfield  that her son was kicked out of his Cub Scout den  the mother said in an email to The Washington Post.
The son's den leader was apparently upset over  Ames 's questions  particularly the one on gun control   Mayfield  said. The mother was told her son's question was disrespectful and too political.
"I had to go home and tell my son he was kicked out  " Mayfield  said. "My son was heartbroken because he really liked this den leader and couldn't understand why his question was inappropriate."
 Ames  was less than four months away from transitioning from the Cub Scouts to the Boy Scouts   his  mother said.
The Scouts did not explicitly say  he  was kicked out of the den. In a statement to The Post and local media outlets the Denver Area Council of the Boy Scouts said only that he remains a member of the larger pack  and that the organization is working with the family to offer him options that will "allow him to continue his Scouting experience in a way that fits his and his family's needs."
But local news reports of  Ames 's apparent removal from his den drew anger across social media  with many arguing that  Ames  was punished for asking tough questions of a state lawmaker. After all  the den had specifically assigned the scouts to prepare questions for the senator.
 Ames 's story drew the attention of gun control advocate and former Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona  who was shot in the head by an assailant in 2011  suffering a severe brain injury.
"This is exactly the kind of courage we need in Congress " Giffords tweeted Thursday. " Ames   call me in 14 years. I'll campaign for you."
Giffords's husband  astronaut Mark Kelly  called  Ames  and his mother Thursday night to talk about what happened  according to Fox 31.
The focus of the Cub Scouts' assignment   Mayfield  said  was to meet with a government leader and discuss an important issue facing the community. Cub Scouts were instructed to decide on one or two questions  and to be prepared to ask the official about an issue in the local news.
 Ames  researched the senator before the meeting and decided he would focus his questions on gun control  his mother said. After all  the majority of the videos on Marble's site deal with gun rights legislation.
"Given that the Las Vegas shooting happened  I felt that it should be a reasonable thing to ask "  Ames  told a Denver Fox affiliate. "I don't feel like I did anything wrong."
[EX A]: Ames Mayfield

[EX Q]: TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday  he  hoped the central bank would continue to promote âboldâ monetary easing  as the economy has yet to emerge decisively from deflation.
 Abe  rebuffed the view the Bank of Japanâs 2 percent inflation target was too ambitious for a country mired in two decades of deflation  saying the central bankâs commitment and actions to hit the target had helped revive the economy.
âA positive economic cycle is kicking off. I hope the BOJ continues to promote bold monetary easing to achieve its 2 percent inflation target â  Abe  told parliament.
 He  also said it was premature to declare an official end to deflation despite growing signs of strength in the economy.
âAn end to deflation means prices arenât falling consistently and there is assurance Japan wonât slip back into deflation in the future â  Abe  said. âWe need to look at developments more.â
The remarks come ahead of a leadership change at the BOJ with the five-year terms of Governor Haruhiko Kuroda and  his  two deputies expiring in April and March  respectively.
[EX A]:
Shinzo Abe