Crime
against church
27 December 1997
Yeltsin
marks December Christmas
26 December 1997
Church's
role in Russia will grow
25 December 1997
Conservative
journal attacks Yakunin
December 1997
Patriarch
addresses Moscow diocese
25 December 1997
Patriarch
threatens reformers
December 1997
Religious
renaissance in Russia?
25 December 1997
Parliament
supports patriarch
27 December 1997
Testimony
on religion law before Helsinki commission, by Lauren Homer
December 1997
Study
of tsarist remains
23 December 1997
Violation
of law on freedom of conscience
19 December 1997
Patriarch
addresses Moscow clergy
17 December 1997
Turkmenistan
restricts protestant groups
11 December 1997
Patriarch's
film stand criticized
8 December 1997
Implementing
religion law: rules on registration
9 December 1997
Siberian
Baptists
5 December 1997
Chief
Russian Baptist denomination aging
1 December 1997
Russian
Adventists expanding
4 December 1997
"Dangerous"
sects named
4 December 1997
Patriarch
still fights film
2 December 1997
Implementing religion law:
Guidelines
promised; Catholic criticism; Baptists restricted
2 December 1997
Some
royal bones may be moved
29 November 1997
Psychiatric
group aids Fr Kochetkov
November 1997
Tsarist
family must stay in Ekaterinburg
26 November 1997
Intra-Orthodox
disputes
27 November 1997
Resisting
rights violations
27 November 1997
Priest's
suit against paper ends
22 November 1997
Russian
evangelicals oppressed
22 November 1997
Insane
believer kills son
21 November 1997
Regional
disputes over religious liberty
19 November 1997
Orthodox
cooperate with protestants
19 November 1997
Orthodox
vigilantes
20 November 1997
Collins
expresses mild criticism of religion law
14 November 1997
Progressive
Moscow religion journal loses lease
29 October 1997
text of document in Kochetkov case from prosecutor has been added to earlier story
Neopaganism
in Udmurtia
14 November 1997
Russia
fights religious hostility
11 November 1997
Old
Believer council meets
12 November 1997
Maria
Nikolaevna's body is missing
6 November 1997
Commission
meets on tsar's burial
4 November 1997
Burial
of tsar still on hold
3 November 1997
State
documents support censured priest
Implementing new religion law:
Salvation
army halls confiscated
30 October 1997
Jewish
synagogue's registration rejected
31 October 1997
Ukrainian
paganism grows
31 October 1997
Orthodox
parish seized
30 October 1997
Implementing
new religion law: government commission working
30 October 1997
Ukrainian
church head interviewed
24 October 1997
Burial
of tsar's family planned
23 October 1997
International
support helps Lutherans
13 October 1997
Censured
paper strikes back
16 October 1997
Patriarch
reprimands reformist priest
13 October 1997
Strengthening
education
7 October 1997
Orthodox
suffer under new law
7 October 1997
Moscow
protest against law
7 October 1997
Local
laws cannot contradict federal law
6 October 1997
Meaning
of the law is in its application
2 October 1997
Ongoing
difficulties of Kochetkov parish
1 October 1997
Western
criticism of law
1 October 1997
Religion
law official
1 October 1997
Appeals
support suspended priest
September 1997
Orthodox
priests murdered
26 September 1997
PBS
News Hour coverage of religion law
29 September 1997
Religion
law benefits few
25 September 1997
Yeltsin
signs law
26 September 1997
Upper
chamber approves law
24 September 1997
Words
of approval for religion law
23 September 1997
Press
coverage of duma's action on law
20 September 1997
Duma
votes on law
19 September 1997
Duma
review of law set for Friday
18 September 1997
Draft
of religion law published
18 September 1997
Religion
law imperiled
17 September 1997
Representatives
of religious organizations speak about law
4 September 1997
Attorney
criticizes revision of law
16 September 1997
Support
for law weakens
16 September 1997
Regional
religion law: Buriatiia
16 September 1997
State
paper urges duma to support president
13 September 1997
Catholic
support of religion law
11 September 1997
Russian
Christians reject new version of law
12 September 1997
Duma
consideration of religion law delayed
11 September 1997
Duma
committee approves revised law
11 September 1997
Presidential
press secretary rejects criticism of religion law
10 September 1997
Religious
studies in Russian university
10 September 1997
Remembering
murdered priest
9 September 1997
Could
religion law have prevented this murder?
5 September 1997
Revision
removes offensive parts from law
4 September 1997
New
sect in Ukraine
3 September 1997
Yeltsin
proposes restrictive changes in religion law
5 September 1997
Moldovan
government takes case to supreme court
3 September 1997
Duma
urged to act on law by Yeltsin, religious leaders
4 September 1997
State
newspaper supports revised law
3 September 1997
Holy
Synod approves revised law
2 September 1997
Revised
law on president's desk
3 September 1997
Patriarch
rejects compromise on law
2 September 1997
Patriarch
honors Kazan
1 September 1997
Debating the religion law August 1997
Alarm
about White Brotherhood
28 August 1997
Patriarch
rejects North American standards of freedom of conscience
27 August 1997
Yeltsin
administration proposes amendments to law
27 August 1997
Moldavian
church conflict
25 August 1997
Interconfessional
press conference on religion law
August 1997
Progress
toward new religion law
23 August 1997
Romanian
vs Russian Orthodox
21 August 1997
Patriarch:
Yeltsin's amendments insult Orthodoxy
20 August 1997
Historic
church reopened
19 August 1997
Tver
diocese supports religion law
19 August 1997
News
of the patriarch
19 August 1997
Cult
leader amnestied in Ukraine
18 August 1997
Orthodox
presence in army
15 August 1997
Bad
press for sects
15 August 1997
One
week later, patriarch-president meeting still making news
14 August 1997
Church
and parliament leaders on law
13 August 1997
Satanists
in Russia
12 August 1997
Patriarch
versus president
9 August 1997
Journalist
honors Yeltsin's political skill
7 August 1997
Orthodox
church will accept few changes in religion law
7 August 1997
Hindus
apprehensive about outcome of revision of religion law
6 August 1997
Crimes
by sects
8 August 1997
Liberal
paper defends reformist priest
9 August 1997
Nationalist
Orthodox journal refutes presidential veto
9 August 1997
Holy
Synod again hesitates on royal family
17 July 1997
Yeltsin
meets patriarch
6 August 1997
Patriarch
interviewed
5 August 1997
Traditionalists
versus reformers in Moscow
29 June 1997
Orthodox
church in persecutor role
26 July 1997
Uzbek
restrictions on religion
24 July 1997
Completion
of Savior cathedral nears
1 August 1997
Yeltsin
and Alexis II
1 August 1997
Reconciliation
commission envisioned
31 July 1997
Duma
head criticizes Yeltsin's veto
31 July 1997
Yeltsin
explains veto on radio
26 July 1997
Patriarch
argues to save law
23 July 1997
Yeltsin
threatens if veto is overridden
23 July 1997
Yeltsin
says Nyet
22 July 1997
Yeltsin
faces a difficult task
22 July 1997
US
State Department views Russia's religion policy
22 July 1997
English
translation of religion law
29 June 1997
Patriarch
Alexis' letter to President Yeltsin
17 July 1997
134,000
Jehovah's Witnesses petition Yeltsin on religion law
17 July 1997
On
papal and senatorial opposition to religion law
19 July 1997
Russian
foreign ministry objects to USSenate's opposition to religion law
19 July 1997
Russian
church supports religion law, pope and senate protest
18 July 1997
Pope
John Paul II's letter to Yeltsin
24 June 1997
State
aids restoration of church
16July 1997
More
Russians trust church than government
29 July 1997
Religion
law wrong approach to real problem
16 July 1997
Orthodox
of Moscow and Kievan patriarchates dispute possession of Crimean shrine
14 July 1997
Antisect
organization vows to use religion law
14 July 1997
Old
Believers worried about religion law
15 July 1997
Russian
rights group petitions Yeltsin on religion law
10 July 1997
Pope
petitioned Yeltsin on religion law
11 July 1997
Conscientious
objection to military service unresolved
11 July 1997
Mormons
and others threatened by law
14 July 1997
Jehovah's
Witnesses alarmed about religion law
9 July 1997
Liberal
opposes religion law
11 July 1997
Christian
Democrat defends religion law
7 July 1997
Orthodox
dispute over monastery in Israel
11 July 1997
Parliament's
upper chamber approves religion law; protest grows
4 July 1997
Russian
Baptists quit WCC
11 June 1997
Jehovah's
Witnesses open Russian headquarters
2 July 1997
US
government expresses opposition to Russian religion law
1 July 1997
Upper
chamber of Russian parliament may review religion law
27 June 1997
Patriarch
doubts canonization of Nicholas II
27 June 1997
Orthodox
archbishop supports new religion law
26 June 1997
Orthodox
priest opposes new religion law
24 June 1997
Russian
government commission reviews nontraditional religions
20 June 1997
Final
lower house approval of religion law
23 June 1997
Variety
of reportage about religion law
20 June 1997
New
law restricts new religious groups
19 June 1997
Russian
State Duma approves new religion law
19 June 1997
Hostility
against Jews in Russia
17 June 1997
"Real
Orthodox Church" resists Moscow patriarchate
4 June 1997
Discussion
of religious education in schools
29 May 1997
Georgian
Orthodox church quits WCC
22 May 1997
Antiecumenism
in Russian Orthodox church
23 May 1997
Yakunin
loses sectarianism case
21 May 1997
Attorney
analyses draft of religion law
December 1996
Further
on Muslim conflict in Dagestan
May 16, 1997
Muslim
conflict in Dagestan
May 15, 1997
Armed
conflict among Muslim factions
May 14, 1997
Traditionalist
criticism of Moscow patriarchate
February 1997
Boris
Yeltsin at church of St. Boris
9 May 1997
Crowds
attend Easter liturgy in Moscow
29 April 1997
Patriarch
gives interview to diocesan paper
March 1997
Bothersome
import issue continues to dog church
28 March 1997
Rutskoy
tries to promote religion in schools
21 March 1997
Russians
still squabbling over czar's bones
10 March 1997
Political
themes in bishops' council
22 February 1997
Orthodox
bishops name three saints
21 February 1997
Bishops'
council of Russian Orthodox church
19 February 1997
Paper
defends Orthodox church on tobacco question
18 February 1997
Russian
press alarmed about anti-Orthodoxy
8 and 14 February 1997
Democratic
organization criticizes Gleb Yakunin
7 February 1997
Another
entrant in the contest to define the Russian Idea
11 February 1997
Orthodox
episcopate ready to meet
13 February 1997
Government
leaders support Orthodox morals for social recovery
11 February 1997
Moscow
patriarchate counterattacks Gleb Yakunin
6 February 1997
Russian
church commemorates martyrs of twentieth century
4 February 1997
Human
rights arm of Russian presidency objects about other state agencies' attack
on sects
31 January 1997
Russian
government figure criticizes American secretary of state for defence of
religious freedom
31 January 1997
Soviet-type
persecution of Orthodox clergy reported
31 January 1997
American
think tank warns about restrictions on religion in Russia
31 January 1997
US
state department assesses religion freedom in FSU
30 January 1997
Orthodox
church summoned to fight crime
22 January 1997
Christian
Democrats picket Jehovah's Witnesses
24 January 1997
Violations
of religious liberty in Uzbekistan
December 1996
Can
religious identity in army be promoted?
18 January 1997
Famous
icon painter punished
January 1997
Orthodox
missionary conference addresses threats from other religions
December 1996
Orthodox
church honors Ingushetia president
10 January 1997
Bomb
threat fails to halt patriarchal Christmas service
9 January 1997
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