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Yeltsin Vetoes
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Yeltsin vetoed the measure.
"The U.S. government and the
Jewish community played a pos-
itive role in alerting the Yeltsin
administration to the very real
dangers of moving in a backward
direction," said Mark Levin, ex-
ecutive director of the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry,
which had raised the issue with
Russian officials. "He was very
sensitive to the views of the in-
ternational community — par-
ticularly from the United States."
But the Duma, which passed
the bill by an overwhelming mar-
gin, could override the veto when
it reconvenes in the fall.
Some Jewish religious leaders
in this country worried that the
law, which treats Judaism as a
protected "traditional" religion,
could fuel anti-pluralism forces
in Russia. And there were ques-
tions about exactly how it might
affect different groups of Jews.
"Under some scenarios there is
at least the possibility that the law
could have a negative affect on Re-
form synagogues, and on Conser-
vative activities," said Micah
Naftalin, national director of the
Union of Councils for Soviet Jews.
"It could produce dangerous new
divisions among Russian Jews." El
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Quiet persuasion by the Clinton
administration and some belli-
cose posturing by the Senate both
may have played a role in the de-
cision by Russian President Boris
Yeltsin to veto a "Law on Free-
dom of Conscience and Religious
Association," passed overwhelm-
ingly by the Duma.
The proposed law would have
severely restricted religious
groups that have not operated in
Russia for at least 15 years.
Recently the Senate, prodded
by Evangelical Christian groups
worried that the law would curb
their own missionary activities,
voted to cut off American aid to
Russia if Yeltsin signed the bill.
President Clinton, while op-
posing an aid cutoff, raised the
issue of the new law during his
summer meetings with Yeltsin
in Denver, and the State De-
partment had been escalating its
public criticism.
Soviet Jewry activists weighed
in as well, although some did not
actively support the Senate ac-
tion because of uncertainty about
how it would affect the non-
governmental organizations that
are the primary recipients of
American aid.
The Duma
could reverse.
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