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By Andrew Higgins @ The New York Times, April 20
MOSCOW — Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday declared Jehovah’s Witnesses, a Christian denomination that rejects violence, an extremist organization, banning the group from operating on Russian territory and putting its more than 170,000 Russian worshipers in the same category as Islamic State militants.
The ruling, which confirmed an order last month by the Justice Ministry that the denomination be “liquidated” — essentially eliminated or disbanded — had been widely expected. Russian courts rarely challenge government decisions, no matter what the evidence [.....]
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Meanwhile in Chechnya:
‘They Starve You. They Shock You’: Inside the Anti-Gay Pogrom in Chechnya
by Andrew B. Kramer from Grozny for the NYTimes, April 21
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/21/2017 - 4:34pm