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Vladimir Rozanskij

  • Yury Dmitriev, the historian of the Sandarmokh mass graves, gets 13 years in a penal colony

    He researched the summary executions of prisoners at the camp Solovetsky Islands, set up under Lenin and operated under Stalin. His research was not appreciated by the authorities, including Russia’s secret services. Pieces of evidence were manipulated or withheld in order to charge him. The sentence is seen as "the total victory of evil". Supporters call him a "political prisoner".

  • Minsk: 'fasting', Metropolitan Venjamin's recipe for peace

    The newly appointed Orthodox metropolitan proposes a three-day fast, invoking the Mother of God and the Belarusian martyrs as witnesses to "restore order" to the country. The "popular" inauguration of Tikhanovskaja, with over 100 thousand demonstrators. The Omon, soldiers in riot gear, repress the demonstrators. The traffic police refuse to participate in the crackdowns.

  • Russian Catholics opposed to the new law on religious freedom

    Under the changes clergy who study aborad will be subjected to a control to "exclude extremist ideas". The new law is also criticized by Buddhists, Muslims, Jews and Protestants, who go abroad for their studies. There is a fear of a resurgence of state control over religions, as in the early 1990s of the last century. The opposition of Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals.

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