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New Regulations tools for Religious Repression

Christian Science Monitor

"With the collapse of Communist rule in Russia, some thought the days were gone
when officials could interrogate private citizens about their religious be-
liefs," writes the Keston Institute's Lawrence Uzzell in the Christian Science Monitor.
"Residents of Tuim in southwestern Siberia know better. To be a Lutheran there
means risk having the Federal Security Service (FSB) - the renamed but not reformed
KGB - knocks on your door and pressures you to change your mind about your
beliefs.”

Ex-KGB Empowered To Seize Assets Of Companies

President Yeltsin has empowered a section of the former KGB to seize assets of foreign
companies investing in Russia if they owe “taxes and other compulsory payments,”
Rossiyskiye vesti reports. The seizures can be made “from the day the arrears are in-
curred.” Yeltsin reportedly issued these powers in an amendment to his edict of May
23, 1994… The decree empowers the Tax police to make the seizures. The tax police
are made up of largely of the former KGB fifth chief directorate, the unit that
carried out political and religious surveillance and repression.

Vladimir Putin is Times 2007 "Person of the Year."

NEW YORK - Time magazine on Wednesday named
Russian President Vladimir Putin its 2007 "Person
of the Year."

The nod went to the Russian leader because of Putin's
"extraordinary feat of leadership in taking a country
that was in chaos and bringing it stability," said Rich-
ard Stengel, Time's managing editor.

Putin, 55, is enormously popular in Russia, presiding
over a resurgent economy flush with revenue from oil
and natural gas. But critics say he has moved the
country away from Russia's democratic reforms of the 1990s by tightening control
of the media, courts and parliament.
"He's the new czar of Russia and he's dangerous in the sense that he doesn't care
about civil liberties, he doesn't care about free speech," Stengel said.

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