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Russia Rejects U.S. Criticism of Its Religious Freedoms
Created: 27.09.2006 17:17 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 17:17 MSK, 12 hours 53 minutes ago
MosNews
The Foreign Ministry on Tuesday shrugged off a U.S. State Department report criticizing alleged discrimination against religious minorities in Russia, saying the criticism was unfounded, the Associated Press news agency reports.
The annual report to U.S. Congress on religious freedom worldwide released earlier this month said that authorities in Russia restricted the rights of some minority groups.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin responded Tuesday by rejecting the report as a “standard set of unfounded critical remarks.”
“Just like in previous years, the U.S. Department of State’s report is abundant in inaccurate and often grossly erroneous wordings, it juggles with facts, outdated information, and references to apparently unreliable sources,” Kamynin said in a statement carried by the Interfax and ITAR-Tass news agencies.
Russian law enshrines Orthodox Christianity as the country’s predominant religion and pledges respect for Buddhism, Islam and Judaism called traditional religions but places restrictions on other groups.
About two-thirds of Russia’s 143 million people are considered Orthodox Christians, and the country has undergone a post-Soviet religious revival. After decades of state-sponsored atheism, destroyed churches have been rebuilt and many Russians have embraced the Church and its rituals.
The dominance of the Russian Orthodox Church and its centuries-old ties to the state have prompted concern among religious minorities, and some Russians who consider themselves atheist claim that religious symbolism is as omnipresent and oppressive as atheism was during Soviet times.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/09/27/religioususa.shtml
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Good question, still very dizzy, but have moved on past the 7 up, to grape juice and the pineapple cake, that my sister sent to me.................
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