RT Article
T1 Religious Freedom in the Russian Federation and the Jehovah's Witnesses
JF The journal of CESNUR
VO 5
IS 1
SP 82
OP 103
A1 Carobene, Germana 1967-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1755356811
AB Anti-extremism legislation has existed in Russia for over a decade, but only recently has it been used to discriminate against, persecute, and eventually "liquidate" the Jehovah's Witnesses. The article reconstructs the history of anti-minority legislation in Russia, from the Soviet Union to the liberal post-Soviet reforms of the 1990s and the retrenchment in the Putin era. Jehovah's Witnesses have been the victims of a notion of the Russian nation granting a de facto monopoly to the Russian Orthodox Church, and regarding religious minorities, particularly those headquartered in the West and proselytizing among Orthodox believers, as a threat to national integrity.
K1 Jehovah's Witnesses
K1 Religion in the Russian Federation
K1 Religious Freedom in Russia
K1 "Anti-Extremism" Laws in Russia
K1 Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia
DO 10.26338/tjoc.2021.5.1.5