Yeltsin Signs Religion Limits
<i> Washington Post</i>
MOSCOW —
President Boris N. Yeltsin swept aside objections from U.S. officials and human rights critics Friday and signed into law a bill to restrict religious practices in Russia.
Critics contend that the law in effect overturns Russia’s constitutional guarantee that all religions are equal and that it marks the waning of the liberal democratic euphoria that gripped Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union nearly six years ago.
Russian Orthodoxy is listed first among “traditional” religions.
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