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<div class="hnews hentry item">[[File:f0.png]] '''<span class="url entry-title">[https://www.theblaze.com/contributions/russia-restricts-religious-freedom-again/ Russia Restricts Religious Freedom...Again]</span>''' <span class="updated">August 23, 2016</span>, <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Eric Patterson</span>, <span class="org organization-name">TheBlaze</span></span>
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<span class="entry-content">[[:Category:Vladimir Putin|Vladimir Putin]] recently signed a law extending a 1997 law, signed by Boris Yeltsin, restricting the activities of religious individuals and groups. Although billed as an anti-terrorist measure, restrictions include the ability to meet in public, to have foreign pastors or missionaries visit, restrictions on publishing, zoning and permit requirements, and other legal intrusions.

These restrictions should also be understood in light of the [[:Category:2012|2012]] "foreign agent" law in [[:Category:Russia|Russia]]. The purpose of that law, ostensibly, was to restrict the activities of foreign agents and foreign money coming in to Russia to alter the political landscape. The actual target, however, was NGOs and human rights organizations. Indeed, it is estimated that one third of NGOs operating in Moscow have shut down since the 2012 law.</span>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">Wikipedia cite:<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><nowiki>{{cite news | first = Eric | last = Patterson | title = Russia Restricts Religious Freedom...Again | url = https://www.theblaze.com/contributions/russia-restricts-religious-freedom-again/ | work = TheBlaze | date = August 23, 2016 | accessdate = February 7, 2019 }}</nowiki></div></div>
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