Russian parliament backs law to label individuals foreign agents

Russia's lower house of parliament passed legislation on Thursday that will allow individual journalists to be labelled foreign agents, a move that critics say will tighten curbs on the media.Russia adopted an initial foreign agent law in 2012 which gave the authorities the power to label non-governmental organisations and human rights groups foreign agents.The legislation that was approved on Thursday, and which now goes to the upper house and then President Vladimir Putin for approval, extends