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In Russia, freedom of religion is provided for in Chapter 1, Article 14, [1] Chapter 2, Articles 28 [2] and 29 [3] of the 1993 constitution, which forbid the federal government from declaring a state or mandatory religion, permit the freedoms of conscience and profession of faith, and forbids state advocacy purporting superiority of any group over another on religious grounds.
There is a ban of Jehovah's Witnesses activities in Russia. [97] In 2017, a report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom stated that: "The Russian government views independent religious activity as a major threat to social and political stability, an approach inherited from the Soviet period". [98]
The Russia Moscow and St. Petersburg missions were founded in February 1992 [5] after legislation passed that allowed for greater religious freedom. At the time, church membership had reached 750. [ 3 ]
Issuing recommendations as to countries it believes should be designated as countries of particular concern for their religious liberty violations is the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a separate agency created by IRFA (along with the U.S. Department of State's Office of International Religious Freedom) to monitor the state of religious freedom around the ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2025. This article is a list of freedom indices produced by several non-governmental organizations that publish and maintain assessments of the state of freedom in the world, according to their own various definitions of the term, and rank countries as being free, partly free, or using various ...
Underscoring Putin’s religious justification for war, Russia’s 2023 Foreign Policy Concept postulates as core principles the defense of Orthodoxy and the Moscow Patriarchate, and the promotion ...
Religious freedom in Russia Status: Current legislation The Yarovaya law (in Russian : Закон Яровой, transliteration : Zakon Jarovoy ), also Yarovaya package or Yarovaya — Ozerov package is a set of two Russian federal bills , 374-FZ and 375-FZ, passed in 2016. [ 1 ]
Ukraine on Friday banned the activities of religious organizations “affiliated with centers of influence” in Russia and said it would examine the links between the Ukrainian and Russian ...