After initially denying it, Officer Senichev (who refused to give his first name) of Kaluga Police in central Russia admitted to Forum 18 News Service that eleven armed officers with dogs had interrupted the 28 February Sunday morning service of St George’s Lutheran congregation. “We had a call on the hotline that extremist literature was [...]

Commentators on Russian religious life are accustomed to dividing the religious communities of that country between those which are registered with the state and thus enjoy certain protections and those which are not registered and thus do not exist as legal entities.
But there is emerging what may prove to be an equally deep divide among [...]