The Russian Foreign and Justice ministries back removing the Taliban from the official list of terrorist organizations and have presented their joint proposal to President Vladimir Putin, the state-owned TASS news agency reported on Monday. Senior diplomat Zamir Kabulov told the agency that Moscow was “considerably closer” to recognizing the Taliban as Afghanistan’s legitimate government than it was when the Islamist movement regained power in 2021. Afghanistan’s Taliban government has not as yet been formally recognized by any other country. While Western countries demand that human, and in p…