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in Russia. Who’s next?<\/a><\/p>\n

“Once you get a decision like this, it’s open season,” John Burns, the Canadian lawyer who represented the group at a Moscow appellate court, told The New York Times. He told the Associated Press, “Religious freedom has just turned back to where it was in Soviet times.”<\/p>\n

Forum 18,<\/a> a Norway-based news agency monitoring religious freedom with a particular eye on the former Soviet Union, says Burns is right in saying the government won’t stop with this group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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