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...covered 78 countries over 83 pages, focused heavily on China, accusing it of trying to suppress Catholic and Protestant movements through threats, arrests and beatings, and of shutting down hundreds of "house churches" and demolishing property. It also expressed concern over heavily restrictive legislation proposed in Russia, which Boris Yeltsin vetoed today, citing constitutional concerns. Ostling notes that one of the reasons behind the Christian effort is a belief among them that the U.S. government has tended to neglect the tribulations of Christianity's followers over the years. "The groups that pushed for this report would grant that other religious...
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...
...self-evident, certainly not to the Russians (or, for that matter, to critics of enlargement in the U.S.). Yet as enlargement has moved forward, NATO and Russia have developed an increasingly close relationship. In May, at a landmark meeting in Paris, the leaders of the alliance and President Boris Yeltsin signed the NATO-Russia Founding Act. It lays the basis for a solid, growing partnership between the alliance and Russia. Meanwhile, contrary to the predictions of some critics of enlargement, Russia has accelerated its program of reform. President Yeltsin has beefed up his government with innovators committed to economic modernization...
APPOINTED. TATYANA DYACHENKO, 37, Boris Yeltsin's forceful daughter, trusted confidant and unofficial keeper who helped steer him to victory in Russia's 1996 election; as an adviser responsible for his image; in Moscow...
...agreement with Japan that will allow the U.S. greater input in Hashimoto's attempt to deregulate a number of his nation's industries, including telecommunications. Among those expected to attend the 23rd annual meeting, renamed the Summit of Eight to account for Russia, will be Russian President Boris Yeltsin, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi...