HARE KRISHNA COMPLAIN OF POLICE HARASSMENT.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 3 Issue: 181

The leader of one of Russia’s fringe religious groups says there has been a sharp increase in police harassment since President Boris Yeltsin signed a controversial bill on religion into law on September 26. Vadim Kuneev, leader of the Krishna Consciousness organization in Moscow, reported five incidents in Moscow alone when police stopped activists from selling religious materials. (BBC World Service, September 29)

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