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MOSCOW: Boris Yeltsin has two choices when a bill curbing religious freedom lands on his desk, and neither of them are good. To veto the bill passed Friday by the Duma ? and effectively make Russian Orthodoxy the dominant religion ? would anger the powerful church and a large section of the Russian public who support the bill as a defense of Russian culture. But to pass the measure would draw huge protest from Western churches such as the Mormons, whose large missionary programs in the country would be outlawed...
KUALA LUMPUR: He's already being hounded by the Russian Duma as a CIA spy. Now a group of southeast Asian countries want him prosecuted as a criminal. Has financier and philanthropist George Soros been speculating too much for his own good...
MOSCOW: Sitting on Boris Yeltsin's desk today is a bill that would drive any man to drink. The communist-controlled Duma has handed Yeltsin a draft law that would put a tourniquet on religious freedom in Russia. The four "traditional" faiths: Russian Orthodoxy, Judaism, Buddhism and Islam, would remain comfortably entrenched. The less-established religions, however, face a ban on owning property, hosting foreign missionaries, and public worship, all privileges of official status. It all adds up as a cultural Great Wall, with the U.S. in the role of the barbarian. "The West is using religion as a means...
MOSCOW: The recent "Buy Russian" campaign for Kremlin bureaucrats was extended to religion today when the Russian Duma voted to bar any religions from operating in the country unless they have been established there for more than 15 years. Denounced by human rights activists as trampling on Russian constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion, the bill is a boon for other traditional faiths such as Islam and Buddhism. But it's theRussian Orthodox Church that was the driving force behind the move. The church has increasingly seen its hold over Russian souls wrested away by foreign upstarts from Hare Krishnas...
MOSCOW: Practicing his classic style of defensive politics, Boris Yeltsin said Russia?s agreement with NATO may undergo a makeover once he passes the document to the Duma for approval. The Russian parliament, dominated by communists and nationalists, already planned to add a clause declaring the agreement void if former Soviet republics decide to join the alliance. TIME?s Bruce Nelan reports that the Duma games, along with Yeltsin's highly-publicized campaign to present the agreement to Russian voters as a binding treaty that gives Moscow a veto over NATO expansion, may mean NATO leaders will call the Russian...