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World Service,25 Sep 1997,27 mins

Russia's Religious Discrimination

Focus on Faith

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Russia gives special status to Russian Orthodox Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and Islam. Other faiths, including Roman Catholicism, will face wide-ranging restrictions. Also on the programme, men's Christian movement in black America and community rivalry in British mosques.

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