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Aug 18, 2010
Russian scientologist faces extremism charges after forcing his staff to embrace the faith — Moscow Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Tom Washington
Source: Moscow Times
Prosecutors in Samara Region are taking a high-flying businessman to task for forcing his employees to go on scientology courses. The director of electronics company RosKabelSvyaz Lev Syrolev was threatening to sack faithless workers, but now faces charges for using extremist material. “These practices are illegal and violate laws on combating extremist activity, labour laws, as well as the constitution of Russia,” Prosecutors said in a press release. The Surgut city court considers the ideas of L Ron Hubbard, Scientology’s founder, ...
Jul 25, 2010
Scientologists charged with extremism — Moscow Times
Type: Press
Source: Moscow Times
Prosecutors have opened a criminal case against a Scientology center in the town of Shchyolkovo, 13 kilometers northeast of Moscow, on charges of inciting hatred, punishable with up to five years in prison. Investigators have decided that documents and literature confiscated at the center promoted extremism, a law enforcement official told Interfax, without elaborating. The decision was based on expertise conducted by leading Russian linguistic institutions, including the Linguistics Institute at the Academy of Sciences, Interfax reported. In April, works by ...
Apr 21, 2010
Russia bans books by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard — Herald Sun (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: Herald Sun (Australia)
RUSSIA is set to ban dozens of texts and recordings by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. "Materials on Scientology by Ron Hubbard have been found extremist and will be banned from distribution in Russia," the Russian prosecutor general's office said in a statement. The ban relates to 28 books and audio-video discs containing lectures by Hubbard, a US science fiction author who founded Scientology in 1954. The ruling was the latest blow to the Church of Scientology, an organisation that some ...
Apr 21, 2010
Works by scientology founder recognized as extremist in Russia — Interfax
Type: Press
Source: Interfax
Moscow, April 21, Interfax — On the initiative of the Surgut Transport Prosecutor's Office, materials by scientology founder Ron Hubbard were recognized as extremist and banned in Russia, the Prosecutor General's Office reports. In compliance with the legislation, they will be included in the Russian federal list of the extremist materials. The Surgut Transport Prosecutor's Office and the Khanty-Mansiysk customs held a joint check to find out that various recipients in Surgut received international mail deliveries from the USA with literature, ...
Tag(s): InterfaxRussia
Oct 8, 2009
Scientologists banned in Altay — Interfax
Type: Press
Source: Interfax
Moscow, October 8, Interfax – Barnaul industrial district court satisfied a complaint of the regional prosecutor with the request to ban the Dianetics Center city organization. The complaint was formulated after regional administration of the Federal Registration Service and Prosecutor’s Office checked work of the Barnaul Scientologist Center. “The administration officials came across major violations of the acting legislation, including such religious activities as spreading and teaching Scientology religion, non-equal rights of organization members due to the system of donations that ...
Tag(s): InterfaxRussia
Oct 1, 2009
Scientologists win rights case against Russia — Associated Press
Type: Press
Source: Associated Press
STRASBOURG, France — Russia's ban on the Church of Scientology is illegal, the European Court of Human Rights said Thursday in a binding ruling. The court said Russia cannot ban the Church of Scientology just because it has not been in the country for long and awarded each of the groups euro5,000 ($7,270) in damages. The groups together also received euro10,000 ($14,500) for costs, which they shared. The case was brought to the Strasbourg-based court by two Russian Scientology branches that ...
Nov 20, 2008
Hubbard Center closed up in Samara — Interfax
Type: Press
Source: Interfax
Samara, November 20, Interfax – The Samara city court has banned work of Dianetics Center as its staff-members worked without license and practiced hypnotherapy and Ron Hubbard teaching. The Samara Region Prosecutor’s Office reported that staff-members of the Dianetics Center lectured at seminars and courses on dianetics and scientology without having special licenses. “These educational courses allegedly aimed at forming world outlook and life style based on priority of human values. They tried to reach it by applying philosophy of improving ...
Jul 8, 2008
Novosibirsk prosecutor to close up another scientologist organization — Interfax
Type: Press
Source: Interfax
Novosibirsk, July 8, Interfax - Prosecutor of the Novosibirsk Region addressed the Novosibirsk central district court a demand to close up Dianetics Siberian Center non-commercial partnership. The regional prosecutor's office has reported on Tuesday that law-enforcement agencies together with experts of regional educational department analyzed activities of the scientologist center and examined printed publications by Ron Hubbard used in the center. "Educational activity is subjected to licensing in the Russian Federation. The license for conducting educational activity is given to religious ...
Apr 18, 2008
Ulyanovsk police search local branch office of Church of Scientology — Interfax
Type: Press
Source: Interfax
Ulyanovsk, April 18, Interfax - Law enforcement officers have searched the office of the Narconon Center of Promoting Healthy Lifestyle in the town of Dimitrovgrad in Ulyanovsk region. "The search of the building was carried out as part of the criminal case over illegal enterprise, launched by the investigative committee of the Dimitrovgrad police department," the regional police department said in a press statement on Friday. "Everything that was seized during the search, and the questioning of clients shows that Narconon ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 24, 2008
Hundreds hold anti-Scientologist rally in Moscow — Interfax
Type: Press
Source: Interfax
Moscow, March 24, Interfax - More than 700 activists of Rossiya Molodaya (Young Russia), a youth group, were joined by students and lecturers of Moscow's Bauman State Technological University (MGTU) in a rally on Friday to demand that a Scientologist office located in the vicinity of MGTU be shut down. "Not so long ago, an organization emerged in the vicinity of our university whose main goal is to get MGTU students to join it. The name of that organization is the ...
Sep 5, 2007
Scientology branded a 'criminal organisation' and may face charges — The Scotsman (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Alastair Dalton
Source: The Scotsman (UK)
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 13, 2007
St. Petersburg court shuts down Scientology Center (Russia) — Interfax
Type: Press
Source: Interfax
Tag(s): DetoxInterfaxRussia
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 12, 2007
Russian court shuts down Scientology center in St. Petersburg: prosecutors — International Herald Tribune
Type: Press
Source: International Herald Tribune
Moscow: A Russian court has ordered a center operated by the Scientology movement in St. Petersburg to be shut down, city prosecutors said Thursday, after accusing the organization of unlicensed teaching and other activities. The St. Petersburg City Court ordered the Scientology center closed after it agreed with prosecutors who said the center's operations were violating its charter. "The center was engaging in 'auditing' and 'purification' activities," prosecutors said in a statement. "Such practices were advertised by the organization as healthcare ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 11, 2007
Scientologists Set For Heavenly Tax Cut — The Argus (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Rachel Pegg
Source: The Argus (UK)
Scientology could be officially recognised as a religion in the UK following a ruling in the European Court of Human Rights. The decision, won by a law team led from East Grinstead, could mean the Charity Commission will have to recognise the controversial Church of Scientology as a bona fide religious group. This would give it access to a series of tax breaks and potentially hundreds of thousands of pounds in taxpayers' money through Gift Aid. The European Court ruled the ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 6, 2007
Proceedings against Scientologists-run clinic instituted in Moscow — Interfax
Type: Press
Source: Interfax
Moscow, April 6, Interfax – Moscow’s South District office of public procurator instituted legal proceedings against the headship of the Narconon-Standard narcological clinic that bases its methods on Scientology, the Moskovsky Komsomolets daily reports on Friday. According to the daily, this ideology is disallowed to be practiced in Russian medical institutions. However parents are often ready to use any chance to save their children from drug addiction. The law enforcers started paying attention on the clinic after many complaints about too ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 5, 2007
European Court of Human Rights finds in favour of Scientology and against Russia in key registration case — CESNUR
Type: Document
Source: CESNUR
(Application no. 18147/02) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 5 April 2007 This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of Church of Scientology Moscow v. Russia, The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of: Mr C.L. Rozakis, President, Mr L. Loucaides, Mrs N. Vaji?, Mr A. Kovler, Mrs E. Steiner, Mr K. Hajiyev, Mr D. Spielmann, judges, and ...
Jun 2, 2006
Russian official jailed for forcing subordinates to study Scientology — Mosnews.com
Type: Press
Source: Mosnews.com
A former Russian MP, a local education chief, has been jailed for embezzlement and abuse of authority — he made his subordinates study scientology and used budget money to pay for their studies. Boris Shalimov of the Skovorodinsk region in Russia's Far East has been sentenced to two years in prison for embezzlement and abuse of authority, the website of Russia's Prosecutor General's Office reports. In October 2002 Shalimov became a member of the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises. To get ...
Jul 20, 2002
Turning people into slaves according to the Russian constitution — Pravda
Type: Press
Author(s): Pyotr Bely
Source: Pravda
Tag(s): PravdaPyotr BelyRussia
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 18, 2002
Moscow City court allows Church of Scientology activity — Interfax
Type: Press
Source: Interfax
Tag(s): InterfaxRussia
Oct 9, 1999
World briefing // Russia: Scientology loses license — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Michael Wines
Source: New York Times
RUSSIA: SCIENTOLOGY LOSES LICENSE – A Moscow city court has revoked the license of the Church of Scientology, saying the organization violated registration laws, and perhaps tax laws, by listing bogus founders of the sect's local branch. Tax police raided the sect's center this year. Scientology officials said the revocation, which was applauded by the Russian Orthodox Church, was politically driven. Michael Wines (NYT)
Mar 29, 1999
Abroad: Critics public and private keep pressure on Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Lucy Morgan
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Scientology leaders say they want peace. They say they want to stay out of court. But with both foes at home and foes abroad, that goal may be elusive. The spiritual home of the Church of Scientology is in Clearwater, but for many years now its leaders have had worldwide ambitions. But as disciples have carried L. Ron Hubbard's teachings away from America's shore, the reception has been almost universally chilly at best – and at times openly hostile. At one ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Feb 27, 1999
Moscow police raid Scientology center — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Nov 1, 1997
Advance in the eastern frontier — Stern (magazine)
Type: Press
Author(s): Bettine Sengling
Source: Stern (magazine)
The business-minded Scientology strategists are conquering Russia with psycho-programs and management courses — and they seek access to politics and the military Oh, what a wonderful day, Marina thinks it's great to write up her sins. Anna has learned that aspirin ruins her brain. And Vladimir, an old man with thick glasses, can explain what ethics is by using building blocks. That's how it is with Scientologists, everybody has a little bit of success every day in the evening at 5:30 ...
Feb 14, 1997
ASKO not for whom bell tolls — East European Markets (UK)
Type: Press
Source: East European Markets (UK)
Russia's biggest non-government insurance company, ASKO, may be down for the auditor's count at the moment. But officials deny Russian press claims that the company is unable to meet obligations to policy- holders. ASKO is charging instead, that an ousted shareholder and ex- executive is trying to undermine ASKO's strategy to expand with fresh investment from foreign insurance partners. Later this month, ASKO and its parent bank, Suprimex, say they will call a press conference to refute allegations that recently appeared ...
Aug 3, 1994
A battle of beliefs waged in megabytes — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: groups.google.com, pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Wayne Garcia
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Scientologists and their critics are colliding in cyberspace. The critics started the fight, creating an electronic bulletin board dubbed alt.religion.scientology on the Internet, a worldwide web of computer networks with an audience pushing 25-million. Then they downloaded their knowledge and opinions in e-mail messages that just about anyone with a computer, a little money and a modem can view. "As you will see, Scientology is astronomically prohibitive," one anonymous writer said on a.r.s in a message that reprinted the church's price ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 1, 1993
backtalk // We are not a cult, not a cult, not a cult... — Mother Jones
More: books.google.ca
Type: Press
Source: Mother Jones
After we ran a 250-word article about the introduction of the Church of Scientology into Russia ("L. Ron's Russia," March/April), our office was inundated by letters, the majority coming from within a ninety-mile radius of our San Francisco offices. Following is a sample of the thoughts expressed in the letters: —– Mother Jones reached its journalistic bottom with "L. Ron's Russia." It appears that you are using propaganda from either Interpol or Eli Lilly as your news. To spread this ...
Mar 1, 1993
L. Ron's Russia — Mother Jones
Apr 13, 1992
Scientology's Largesse in Russia — TIME Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s): Janice Castro
Source: TIME Magazine
Everyone seems to have a plan to assist the citizens of the former Soviet Union, and the CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY is no exception. For the past month, journalism students at the 237-year-old Moscow State University have been studying in the newly renovated L. Ron Hubbard Reading Room. Scientology propaganda in dozens of languages lines the walls, and video equipment is available. Pictures of Hubbard decorate the corridors, along with a bronze bust of "The Founder." Students, who have only the vaguest ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 3, 1990
Selling good will, or Dianetics? // Major games sponsor outrages some by its link to Scientology — Seattle Times
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Marla Williams, Carol M. Ostrom
Source: Seattle Times
There is Pepsi-Cola, there is Gillette, there is Eastman Kodak and Fruit Of The Loom. And then there is Dianetics. Wherever there has been Goodwill Games, there has been Dianetics. As one of 12 worldwide sponsors of the international athletic competition, Dianetics has been very visible — on television screens, the sides of buses, banners, even behind the goal of the Tri-Cities hockey rink. In the University District earlier this week, a huge tent at Northeast 50th Street and University Way ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Brain-washing - A synthesis of the Russian textbook on psychopolitics
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