“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.”
Forum 18, 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.
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