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(Reuters) – Russian lawmakers voted on Tuesday to bar foreigners from using the services of Russian surrogate mothers as Moscow’s relations with Western countries continue to sour over its war in Ukraine. Paid surrogacy is legal in Russia but the practice has been criticised by religious groups for commercialising the birth of children. One of the co-authors of the bill, which was passed nearly unanimously in its first reading, said such legislation was needed to keep children born in Russia out of harm’s way. At the moment, said Vasily Piskaryov, a lawmaker from the ruling United Russia party…