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This survey found that the death penalty now has a higher approval rating in urban areas (77 percent in Moscow for example), with men and among the elderly. [20] [32] According to the Levada Center figures, the proportion of Russians seeking abolition of the death penalty was 12 percent in 2002, 10 percent in 2012 and 11 percent in 2013 ...
"Orthodoxy or death!" is written in Russian above and in Greek below. "Orthodoxy or death!" (Russian: Правосла́вие или смерть!, romanized: Pravoslaviye ili smert!; Greek: Ὀρθοδοξία ἢ θάνατος!, romanized: Orthodoxía í thánatos!) is a political slogan used by Russian nationalists and Eastern Orthodox ...
[76] Currently, it is mainly only human rights activists that take a stand against the death penalty. This is because they believe that the only people being sentenced to death are "the poor, the sick, and the ignorant." [75] Also vulnerable are the non-Hindu minorities, who feel threatened by the idea of the death penalty and oppose it. [76]
According to Russian priest and dissident Gleb Yakunin, new religion law "heavily favors the Russian Orthodox Church at the expense of all other religions, including Judaism, Catholicism, and Protestantism", and it is "a step backward in Russia's process of democratization". [203]
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russian: Русская православная церковь, romanized: Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), also officially known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Московский патриархат, Moskovskiy patriarkhat), [12] is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church.
Russian news outlets release images of him in black prison garb and with a buzz cut, on a live TV feed from the “special regime” penal colony in Kharp, about 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles ...
If we must have the death penalty, we have to deal with the “race and victim effect.” Treating cases equally is what a democracy must stand for. Show comments
The Russian Orthodox Church, though its influence is thin in some parts of Siberia and southern Russia, where there has been a perceptible revival of pre-Christian religion, [6] acts as the de facto, if not de jure, privileged religion of the state, claiming the right to decide which other religions or denominations are to be granted the right ...