The pro-Kremlin United Russia party will...

Russia has strongly opposed attempts by some countries, mainly Poland and the Baltic States, to reassess the results of World War II, which the Kremlin says deny the Soviet Union"s contribution to the victory over the Nazis.

"We will not allow anybody to rewrite the results of the war, defile the memory of those who have fallen and rehabilitate Nazism," Irina Yarovaya said, adding that the verdicts of the Nuremberg trials had never been questioned.

United Russia earlier introduced a similar bill to the State Duma, Russia"s lower house of parliament, which dismissed the draft law as needing "serious historical and legal evaluation."

The new bill proposes the introduction of a new article to the Russian criminal code titled on the rehabilitation of Nazism. It would stipulate a fine of up to 300,000 rubles (more than $10,000) or a prison term of up to three years for the "public approval or denial of Nazi crimes against peace and security of humanity determined by

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