11 March 2003
The Supreme Court on 4 March rejected an appeal by 10 Muslim women from Tatarstan who asked the court to... Read more
Topic: Russia
27 February 2003
Boasting 2,160,000 members and aspiring to five times that number, the recently organized Islamic Party of Russia (IPR) stands poised... Read more
06 December 2002
According to her Constitution, Russia is a secular state. According to the 1992 law on education, state education is secular... Read more
02 December 2002
For the first time since the end of the Soviet regime, an Eastern-rite Catholic priest in Omsk region of western... Read more
09 November 2002
Although not the first such incident in Naberezhnyye Chelny, the destruction of the Orthodox Church of St Tatyana on 1... Read more
16 October 2002
At a conference in Moscow on cooperation between government and religious organizations on 10 October, Viktor Zorkaltsev, chairman of the... Read more
04 September 2002
Orthodox Church lobbies to include confessional preference in census data. But the Russian government disagrees. Meanwhile two-thirds of Russians profess... Read more
26 July 2002
Russia's 1993 Constitution declares that the country is a secular state, and that religious associations are equal before the law.... Read more
25 July 2002
Federation Council Agriculture Committee Chairman Ivan Starikov announced that he intends to start working on a law that would restore... Read more
15 July 2002
The first Russian-language, Christian-oriented satellite television channel began broadcasting on 15 July, RosBalt and other Russian news agencies reported the... Read more