Articles tagged as Putin

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  Putin Says He’d Prefer Start Yoga with Spiritual Practices

  "Yoga is about the development from the physical to the spiritual. Let us say I have started with the spiritual," Putin said at a news conference.

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  Vladimir Putin Congratulates Russians on Orthodox Christmas

  Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Orthodox Christians and all citizens of Russia who celebrate Christmas.
  

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  Krishna Yet to Win Russian Hearts

  The long-running feud over Moscow’s ISKCON temple shows the suspicion and hostility that the Hare Krishna movement still evokes in that country.

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  Putin Approves New Education Law
  Russian President Vladimir Putin signed new legislation that makes a course on the fundamentals of religion mandatory in all schools. It wasn’t clear if that means lessons on Orthodox Christianity or world religions generally.
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  Putin Visit: Krishna to Kudankulam on Indian Agenda
  Exactly a year ago, a news rocked the Indian parliament about an imminent legal ban on the Bhagvad Gita, Hinduism's revered text and philosophical treatise, in Russia, forcing Moscow's intervention. A year later, a bigger crisis looms. A cocktail of religious idiosyncrasy and byzantine municipal laws is leading to ISKCON's eviction from its only temple in Moscow on January 15.
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  Putin’s God Squad
  After years of repression under Communist rule, the Orthodox Church is back at the heart of Russian politics.