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American insults upset Russian legislature (4)

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I believe the answer is:

duma

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'russian legislature' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'american insults upset' is the wordplay.
'american' becomes 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names).
'insults' becomes 'mud' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'upset' is a reversal indicator.
'a'+'mud'='amud'
'amud' written backwards gives 'DUMA'.

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(Other definitions for duma that I've seen before include "Russian state assembly" , "Russian elected parliament" , "Russian legislative assembly" , "council" .)

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