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Boris Yeltsin
Returns Bill

New York (JTA) — Russian
President Boris Yeltsin has
sent back to Parliament a
proposed law that threaten-
ed to stifle the ability of for-
eign religious groups to
operate in Russia.
The bill, pushed by Rus-
sian Orthodox Church
leaders, was said to be aimed
primarily at the activities of
evangelical Christians,
members of the Hari
Krishna sect and radical
Muslims, who have en-
croached on spiritual ter-
ritory the Orthodox Church
sees as its own.
But Jewish groups have
worried that their activities
might be threatened as well.
Provisions of the bill, a
series of amendments to
Russia's Law on Religion,
would have required all for-
eign religious organizations
to work under the authority
of local groups and to be
registered by the govern-
ment.
The passage of the bill by
the Russian Parliament in
July engendered interna-
tional condemnation, par-
ticularly by the American
Christian community. Mr.
Yeltsin received thousands
of letters from abroad, ac-
cording to Leonid Stonov of
the Union of Councils, an
American-based advocacy
group for Jews in the former
Soviet Union.
Among the letters was one
from Sen. Richard Lugar, R-
Ind., signed by an additional
160 members of the U.S.
Congress.
In returning the bill to
Parliament, Mr. Yeltsin de-
scribed the law as contrary
to international human
rights accords.
"No one expected the reac-
tion they got from the
West," said Mark Levin, ex-
ecutive director of the Na-
tional Conference on Soviet
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