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BREAKING NEWS – Russia Moves to Liquidate Fifty-Six Religious Groups
By Derek H. Davis - On October 15 the Russian Ministry of Justice took steps to begin liquidating 56 non-Russian Orthodox religious organiza…
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New law in Russia ends jury trials for ‘crimes against state’ (LA Times)
Reporting from Moscow -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev paused in the last, quiet hours of a dying year to sign into law a controversial…
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RUSSIA: “We still cry when we remember the burned books” (Forum 18)
A Tatarstan court had to reject the prosecutor's suit to have a further 18 books by or about the Turkish Islamic theologian Said Nursi decla…
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Russian occupation will harm religious freedom in Ukraine
In 2014, Russia used religious controls in an attempt to diminish Crimea's cultural identity. It plans to do the same to all of Ukraine.
