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Saturday February 9, 2008
Russia:
The Latter-Day Saints, like a raft of other non-Orthodox faiths, including Jehovah’s Witnesses, have been labelled “totalitarian sects” by the Russian Orthodox Church, whose criticism is frequently tinged with nationalism. In the past decade, the Russian government has severely restricted the activities of these churches, whose followers routinely face harassment, discrimination and even detention.
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Wednesday November 28, 2007
Cults • Russia:
As the drama around the Russian sect awaiting the apocalypse in a cave in the country’s Penza Region continues to unfold, media reports of other isolated and extreme Christian groups have begun to emerge.
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Wednesday February 28, 2007
Russia:
A special session dealing with the issue of cult expansion in Russia’s capital will be held in the Moscow City Duma in the middle of March.
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Wednesday February 21, 2007
Russia:
Prof. Alexander Dvorkin, president of the Russian Association of Centers for Religious and Sectarian Studies, has proposed to introduce a number of new notions in the Russian Criminal Code for more effective counteraction to totalitarian cults.
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Tuesday February 20, 2007
Russia:
Prof. Alexander Dvorkin, a well-known Russian specialist in sects and president of the Russian Association of Centers for Religious and Sectarian Studies, has found ungrounded the wish of Krishnaite community in Moscow to build a temple in the Russian capital.
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About 600-800,000 Russian citizens are involved in religious sects in a country of 142 million people, most of whom are Orthodox Christians, the president of the Moscow-based religion and sect study center said Tuesday.
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Wednesday December 27, 2006
Russia:
The Kremlin might back away from a new law that would force churches and religious groups to report to the government on their services, sermons and sources of income.
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Friday June 9, 2006
Russia:
Thousands of people have gathered in Moscow for the return of what is said to be John the Baptist's right hand.
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Monday March 27, 2006
Russia:
A 21-year-old man who went on a knife-wielding rampage at a Moscow synagogue, injuring eight people, has been sentenced to 13 years in jail.
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Thursday January 12, 2006
Russia:
Top rabbi blames growing fascist 'plague' for anti-Semitic upsurge
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Tuesday April 12, 2005
Russia:
[Presenter] Vladimir Putin is a reborn Apostle Paul. Such is a new postulate of a sect that has been operating in Nizhniy Novgorod Region for several years already. A former prison inmate, now known as Mother Fatinya, is attracting more and more followers under her wing. People are abandoning their families and selling their flats - all for the sake of learning the so-called truth. The local [Russian Orthodox] diocese is aware of the sect but cannot do anything about it.
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Monday March 28, 2005
Russia:
A Moscow court has found the organisers of an art exhibition guilty of inciting religious hatred and fined them 100,000 roubles (?2,000; $3,600) each.
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Russia:
Both the Russian government and the Russian Orthodox Church have expressed concern over the increase in membership of new and minority faiths in Russia. Major membership gains have been made by some groups, particularly by the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Mormons.
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Wednesday March 23, 2005
Russia:
Born-Again Non-Christians: Post-Soviet Sects Attract Minds and Rubles
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Wednesday December 22, 2004
Russia:
[Presenter] Spiritual bidders for the electorate are also suffering defeats. The chief rabbi of Russia, Berl Lazar, has called on the authorities to ban religious sects in the country as soon as possible. As is known, the Orthodox Church has been actively calling for a ban on many sects for a long time. The number of new religious organizations in Russia has increased a hundred-fold over the past 10 years. According to different reports, there are currently up to 5,000 of them.
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Sunday October 24, 2004
Russia:
MOSCOW. Oct 23 (Interfax) - From 200 to 500 religious sects are currently operating in Russia, depending on what kind of organizations can be considered sects, Russian Inter-Religious Council Executive Secretary Roman Silantyev told a press conference in Moscow on Friday.
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Tuesday August 10, 2004
Russia:
Suspected of racism, the sect of Old Believers-Inglinists in Omsk appeals to European Court for Human Rights.
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Thursday April 29, 2004
Russia:
MOSCOW. April 28 (Interfax) - Russia's chief rabbi Berl Lazar has proposed passing a federal law banning the activities of religious sects.
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Tuesday April 13, 2004
Russia:
The majority of Russians, 57%, admit that faith plays an important role in their life, while 40% of them do not think much about it.
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Thursday October 30, 2003
Russia:
Moscow (CNSNews.com) - Government and religious officials in Russia are pressing for a campaign against "totalitarian sects," which threaten national security, they claim.
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Wednesday October 29, 2003
Russia:
Totalitarian sects exist only for money and power
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Monday August 25, 2003
Russia:
A Moscow court on Friday found U.S. missionary Andrew Okhotin guilty of trying to smuggle $48,000 through Sheremetyevo Airport and handed down a suspended sentence of six months, as requested by prosecutors.
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Saturday July 27, 2002
Russia:
New York Times, July 27, 2002
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Tuesday July 23, 2002
Russia:
The Moscow Times, July 23, 2002
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Most Read about Russia
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- Moscow City Duma to elaborate a method for combating cult expansion in Russia’s capital
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- About Million Russians Involved in Sects
- Holy hand relic returns to Russia
- Assailant stabs 8 people at Moscow synagogue
- Russia's Chief Rabbi Says Sects Should Be Banned
- Sect Expert: Moscow Krishnaites can fit in a telephone box
- Russian disclosure law may exclude churches
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