Plus, Estonia’s ethnic-Russian integration improves and lobbying intensifies over more Belarus sanctions.
Angela Almeida, Joshua Boissevain, Ioana Caloianu, Jeremy Druker, and Anna Shamanska, Transtiions Online, 22 March 2012
1. Russian courts make landmark rulings in religion cases
A regional court in Siberia on 21 March threw out an attempt to ban a Russian translation of Bhagavad Gita As It Is, according to RIA Novosti. The ruling comes a day after a Moscow court upheld a ban on books promoting Scientology. That decision officially puts Scientology literature on Russia’s list of banned material.
In a statement on the Scientology case quoted by RT.com, the court said the texts, including those by founder L. Ron Hubbard, “foster the creation of an isolated social group, whose members are taught to precisely carry out commands, many of which are aimed at confronting the outside world.” Over the past decade and a half, Scientologists have fought in various Russian courts to be recognized as an established religion. The church won a case in 2009 at the European Court of Human Rights that said Russia’s ban on the church was illegal.
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