Russia threatens to shut down branch
by wannaexit 5 Replies latest jw friends
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GrreatTeacher
"Unprecedented move?"
Weren't they banned in Russia for years?
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jwleaks
The picture that Watchtower is using to support their news [see screen shot below] is completely unrelated and inappropriate. Nothing more than sensationalist propaganda. Below is the official caption for the photo from Getty Images:
With the Kremlin (L) and St.Basil's Cathedral (R) in the background Interior Ministry troops cordon one of the entrances to the Red Square in Moscow, on December 10, 2011, during an authorized opposition protest against the alleging mass fraud in the December 4 parliamentary polls. Tens of thousands of election protesters turned out today in Moscow and other major cities across Russia in open defiance to strongman Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule.
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Mephis
Some background from HuffPost recently, echoing many of the other reports I've linked on similar threads about this not just being a JW issue:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/armine-sahakyan/hopes-of-religious-freedo_b_9509396.html
Many people expected a flowering of faith when the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991.
But it hasn’t happened, largely because the countries that emerged from the ashes of the USSR have repressed most religions, the main exceptions being Russian Orthodox Christianity and certain brands of Islam.
The repressed have included denominations of Christianity that are widespread in other countries, such as Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans and Presbyterians.
As with other regrettable trends in the former Soviet Union, Russia has set the tone for the repression of religion. -
zeb
Perhaps the Russians have been observing the goings on at the ARC and now the inquiry in the UK. -
Barrold Bonds
zeb: Nah. It's been well documented in the news and on this site. The Russian government is basically going after anyone who is not a white heterosexual member of the Russian Orthodox Church.
