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• Marc Bennetts: “When Russia’s patience snaps, you don’t want to be the ruler in charge”

  New Humanist talks to the author of "Kicking the Kremlin: Russia’s New Dissidents and the Battle to Topple Putin"

• Thirteen years after the invasion, how much have women's lives improved in Afghanistan?

  Some positive steps might have been taken, but abuses continue, writes Samira Shackle

• Anti-abortion 'counselling' services peddling misinformation to vulnerable women

• Penguin India withdraws "disrespectful" book about Hinduism

  Publishing giant agrees to pulp book and acknowledges that it "respects all religions worldwide"

• Vatican rejects UN's child abuse report

• Why is it so difficult to secure convictions for rape?

  Samira Shackle unpicks the complex issues surrounding the crime.

• Are humanist funerals the new normal?

• On the importance of the right to offend

• Channel 4 accused of censorship over Jesus & Mo story

• India Supreme Court refuses to review gay sex ban, and other stories - our morning round-up