MOSCOW, Jan 23 (AFP-NT) - The upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, Tuesday elected as its speaker Yegor Stroyev, a conservative former apparatchik, ITAR-TASS news agency reported. Stroyev, 58, head of the Oryol regional administration in central Russia, was elected by 147 votes to 19 with two spoilt ballots, at the opening session of the new Federation Council. AFP /AA1234/231346 GMT JAN 96

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