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		<title>Closing churches and regulating services is unconstitutional—Russian Presidential Council for Human Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[interference by State]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 21, 2020. Officials have no right to close churches and regulate services and religious rites due to the coronavirus pandemic, the President Council for Human Rights believes. On July 17, Valery Fadeev, the Council Chairman, presented a report in St. Petersburg entitled, “Lessons of the Epidemic in Terms of Civil and Human Rights and Freedoms,” which in particular states [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Petersburg mayor’s order to close churches is unconstitutional, services will continue, says Russian Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 27, 2020. Residents of St. Petersburg, Russia, are prohibited from visiting religious sites from March 28 to April 5 according to new measures aimed at containing the quickly-spreading coronavirus. The decree signed by city Governor Alexander Beglov on March 26 prohibits “individuals from visiting objects (territories) of religious organizations, with the exception of the clergy and religious personnel of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two clergymen injured in stabbing attack in Moscow church</title>
		<link>http://orthodoxrights.org/two-clergymen-injured-in-stabbing-attack-in-moscow-church.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 19:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[physical assault]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[February 16, 2020. A priest at a Moscow church, the scene of a stabbing attack on Sunday morning, told TASS that two injured men were his assistants. &#8220;During the preparations for the service, a young man rushed to the altar and stabbed my assistants with a knife. I want to thank all worshippers and the guards, who were able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ukrainian media publish a fake about Patriarch Kirill and Georgian Church</title>
		<link>http://orthodoxrights.org/ukrainian-media-publish-a-fake-about-patriarch-kirill-and-georgian-church.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2019 12:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defamation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[28 September 2019. A number of Ukrainian and Russian media published a fake saying that Patriarch Kirill supports separatism in Georgia. On September 23, the Ukrainian edition “Religiina Pravda” (“Religious Truth”) published information that &#8220;the Georgian Patriarchate has accused the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church of promoting separatism&#8221;. As it turned out later, this information is not true. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The criminal proceedings on the insult of feelings of believers were initiated in Kirov</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2019 03:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[symbolic attack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[March 21, 2019 &#8211; A resident of the city of Kirov from April 2016 to February 2018 was posting on the Internet drawings and inscriptions that showed signs of humiliation of Christians and clergy, express obvious disrespect for society and was insulting religious feelings of believers, found out the regional FSB[note]FSB is the Russian Federal Security Bureau[/note] branch. Kirov Investigative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Orthodox believers are offended by the fact that bottles of some vodka brand, sold in Krasnoyarsk, are shaped in the form of the St. Paraskeva chapel.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2019 17:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 19, 2019 &#8211; Vodka in a bottle that repeats the outlines of the St. Paraskeva chapel (Russian Orthodox Church), a monument of regional architecture, is sold in local supermarkets of Krasnoyarsk at prices ranging from 2,600 to 4,300 rubles[note]Approximately 35 &#8211; 50 euros.[/note]. Krasnoyarsk Diocese intends to apply to the law enforcement agencies in order to obtain a legal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orthodox Christians are outraged by the performance at the St. Isaac’s Cathedral.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2019 03:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humiliation, hate speech, inhumane treatment, murders of Orthodox Christians]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 23, 2019 &#8211; During a secular concert, a choir performed a humorous song about a nuclear strike on Washington[note]The song “On the submarine” was written at the beginning of the 80s parodying Soviet foreign policy.[/note] at the St. Isaac’s Cathedral[note]St. Isaac’s Cathedral used to be the Russian Orthodox Church’s cathedral representing the best traditions of Russian culture in general [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Orthodox Church calls ECHR decision on Pussy Riot members&#8217; appeal blow to legal protection of religious freedom</title>
		<link>http://orthodoxrights.org/echr-decition-to-blow-legal-protection-of-religious-freedom.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 21:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[December 5, 2018. The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church says that the European Court of Human Rights&#8217; refusal to reconsider its Pussy Riot ruling restricts religious freedom in Europe. &#8220;It is regrettable that the court rejected Russia&#8217;s appeal and refused to refer the case to the Grand Chamber. The court evaded a serious and substantive discussion of its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orthodox temple of St. Elijah in Petrozavodsk vandalized</title>
		<link>http://orthodoxrights.org/orthodox-temple-of-st-elijah-in-petrozavodsk-vandalized.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 20:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[December 5, 2018. On the night of 4 to 5 December 2018, at about 5 o&#8217;clock in the morning, the vandal broke the railing on the territory of the temple complex in the name of the holy prophet Elijah, and then he smashed windows with stones in the temple and bell tower, the press service of the Karelian diocese reports. Mischief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The foundation stone of the St Eugene (Botkin) Church is twice vandalised</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[October 25, 2018. In Pervouralsk (the Russian Federation), unknowns desecrated the foundation stone laid at the construction site of a church (Russian Orthodox Church) in honour of saint Eugene Botkin[note]Eugene Botkin was a doctor of Tsar Nicholas II and his family; the doctor was murdered together with the Royal Family on the 17th of July 1918.  [/note]. At first, there [...]]]></description>
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