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When Stalin defeated Trotsky for the leadership of the Bolsheviks in the 1920s, all of the general secretary’s victories in the first years were in the periphery of the country where in many cases Stalin...
A longtime Jehovah’s Witness has been sentenced to prison in southern Russia this week for taking part in Bible discussions, the religious organization said Friday. Vasily Meleshko, 60, and his wife Zoya had been practicing...
A court in southern Russia has sentenced three Jehovah's Witnesses to prison for belonging to the banned religious group, in the latest persecution against its members. The Leninskiy District Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Arsen Avanesov...
MOSCOW -- In a bright, spotless apartment in a Moscow suburb, a small circle of people sat around a table in December 2019. Bowls of candies and teapots were set out, along with salads. The...
The United States on Thursday condemned Russia for handing down its harshest sentence yet on Jehovah’s Witnesses amid the Kremlin’s crackdown on those who practice the Christian denomination. [caption id="attachment_5533" align="aligncenter" width="768"] Aleksey Berchuk was...
A Russian court Wednesday sentenced two members of the Jehovah’s Witnesses to seven and eight years in prison, the US-based religious movement said, accusing Moscow of setting a “new record for cruelty.” Moscow outlawed the...
A court in Russian-annexed Crimea on Thursday sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to six years in prison for organizing an extremist organisation, in the latest harsh sentence against the Christian movement. Crimea's Supreme Court at an...
A Russian court has handed the country’s longest prison sentence yet to a Jehovah’s Witness, the independent news website MediaZona reported Wednesday. More than two dozen Jehovah’s Witnesses have been sentenced and scores more are...
Courts have handed suspended sentences of between two and seven years on "extremism"-related charges to 70 Jehovah's Witnesses as a result of the 2017 Supreme Court ban on their activity. A Muslim who reads Said...
KRASNOYARSK, Russia -- Another Jehovah's Witness has been handed a lengthy prison term in Siberia amid an ongoing crackdown on the religious group, which has been banned in Russia since 2017. The press service of...
MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova believes that a parallel drawn by the US State Department between the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK, the non-profit NGOs recognized in Russia as foreign agent) and...
In July 2020, Valentina Baranovskaya suffered a stroke. In February 2021, Abakan City Court jailed the 70-year-old for two years to punish her for meeting fellow Jehovah's Witnesses for worship, a verdict her lawyer described...
Russia must “immediately cease” persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses, a State Department spokesman told the Daily Caller News Foundation Thursday evening. The statement is a response to news that Russian agents had arrested five more Jehovah’s...
Days after the United States condemned Russian persecution of religious groups, Jehovah’s Witnesses announced that agents arrested five more Jehovah’s Witnesses for their faith. A Russian court in Krasnoyarsk sentenced 47-year old Andrey Stupnikov to...
Russia has sentenced six Jehovah’s Witnesses to multi-year prison terms on extremism charges, the religious organization said Thursday. Rights advocates decry Russia’s prosecutions of Jehovah’s Witnesses — which has been banned in Russia as an...
An association founded by survivors of the Dachau concentration camp, the Lagergemeinschaft Dachau, is calling on Russian authorities to stop persecuting Jehovah’s Witnesses. The association condemned Russia’s systematic campaign of oppression against our brothers in...
Russian senators approved, Wednesday (2), by a large majority, a law which prohibits anyone considered extremist to stand for election in the country. The decision, in practice, paves the way for the ban on the...