{"id":5493,"date":"2021-06-10T14:19:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T11:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/?p=5493"},"modified":"2021-08-18T10:44:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:44:58","slug":"diplomat-calls-us-link-between-fbk-and-jehovahs-witnesses-unprecedented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/diplomat-calls-us-link-between-fbk-and-jehovahs-witnesses-unprecedented\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomat calls US link between FBK and Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses unprecedented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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 the Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses extremist group (outlawed in Russia) will go down in history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5494\" src=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/imgs-6-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/imgs-6-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/imgs-6-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/imgs-6-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/imgs-6-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/imgs-6-560x373.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I believe this will go down in history. This is an unprecedented comparison. This comparison between FBK and Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses is making them equal in the public consciousness, by drawing a parallel between the sects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the other hand, there is nothing strange here. It seems to me that US curators of both of them know better what to call their puppets,&#8221; Zakharova told the Solovyov Live YouTube channel on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They compared Russia\u2019s reaction to their activity but forgot to say that we have our domestic legislation and it is applied in the same way like in other countries,&#8221; the diplomat noted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Zakharvova, the Russian Foreign Ministry will bear in mind this in-depth and exact comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the US Department of State condemned the Moscow City Court\u2019s ruling on recognizing the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the Citizens\u2019 Rights Protection Foundation (the non-profit NGOs recognized in Russia as foreign agent) as well as the Navalny Headquarters public movement as extremist organizations on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US State Department Spokesman Ned Price Washington criticized the 2017 Russian Supreme Court\u2019s decision to recognize the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses religious organization and all regional religious organizations in its structure as extremists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-news","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5495,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions\/5495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}