Entries by AIFD

8/15/13 CIS has a Poor Record on Religious Freedom

Source: The Moscow Times 15 August 2013 | Issue 5192 By Katrina Lantos Swett and M. Zuhdi Jasser This month marks the 22nd anniversary of the “August putsch,” in which hardline Communists held Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev under virtual house arrest for several days at his dacha in the Crimea. They sought to crush democratic reforms, including expanded autonomy for the Soviet republics. Who can forget Boris Yeltsinstanding on a […]