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		<title>Russian unorthodox: Alternative sects face discrimination in a post-Soviet system that was supposed to ensure religious freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Russian sects in spotlight as doomsday cult refuses to budge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Moscow City Duma to elaborate a method for combating cult expansion in Russia’s capital</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Dvorkin: Russian Criminal Code should contain ‘conscience manipulation’ and ‘psychological violence’ to fight sects</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Sect Expert: Moscow Krishnaites can fit in a telephone box</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>600-800,000 people in Russia are members of religious sects</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Russian disclosure law may exclude churches</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16931/russian-disclosure-law-may-exclude-churches</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Holy hand relic returns to Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of people have gathered in Moscow for the return of what is said to be John the Baptist&#8217;s right hand. 
Head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Alexy II led a service at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour to celebrate the relic&#8217;s return. 
The hand belonged to the tsars in the 18th Century, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moscow synagogue attacker jailed</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14129/moscow-synagogue-attacker-jailed</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
Alexander Koptsev was found guilty of attempting to murder Jewish worshippers during the incident on 11 January.
After bursting into the building he lashed out at random before being wrestled to the ground [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assailant stabs 8 people at Moscow synagogue</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13238/assailant-stabs-8-people-at-moscow-synagogue</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Top rabbi blames growing fascist &#8216;plague&#8217; for anti-Semitic upsurge
Moscow &#8212; A 20-year-old man wielding a knife stabbed eight people, four of them seriously, in a central Moscow synagogue Wednesday evening, in an attack that Russia&#8217;s chief rabbi said was part of a growing fascist &#8220;plague&#8221; in the country.
Police identified the assailant as Alexander Koptsev, a [...]]]></description>
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