The Ministry of Justice, United Russia, the Russian Orthodox Church and the ban on Jehovah's Witnesses or Who is behind the organization of the ban on the SI in the Russian Federation? Ministry of Justice Suspends Activities of Jehovah's Witnesses Ministry of Justice against Jehovah's Witnesses

The Ministry of Justice filed an administrative lawsuit with the Supreme Court (SC), in which it asks to recognize the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia (head office) as an extremist organization, to ban its activities and liquidate it. The agency alleges that this religious organization violated anti-corruption legislation extremist activity. On March 16, the organization filed an application with the Supreme Court with a request to dismiss the lawsuit, but the court scheduled the hearing for April 5.

On February 8-27, the Russian Ministry of Justice conducted an unscheduled inspection of the "compliance of the activities" of the religious organization "Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia" with the goals and objectives stated in its charter, Kommersant was told in the press service of the department. Based on the results of the audit, the experts concluded that “the activities of the organization are carried out in violation of the statutory goals and objectives, as well as the current legislation of the Russian Federation, including the federal law “On Counteracting Extremist Activity”.” What exactly the violation consists of was not indicated. On March 15, the Ministry of Justice filed an administrative lawsuit with the Supreme Court to ban its activities in Russia and liquidate the organization.

The website of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia notes that "millions of believers around the world consider the actions of the ministry a big mistake": organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, and will also affect all 2,277 religious groups throughout the country, uniting 175,000 followers of this religion.” The report noted that "extremism is deeply alien to the Bible-based beliefs and morality of Jehovah's Witnesses."

Ivan Belenko, an employee of the press service of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses, told Kommersant that on March 2, 2016, the organization received a warning from the Prosecutor General's Office about the inadmissibility of extremist activity: “We, of course, knew that it could be fraught with serious consequences up to a lawsuit. The entire array of accusations against believers of extremist activity boils down to one single fact - the inclusion of several publications of a religious nature by Jehovah's Witnesses in the so-called federal list of extremist materials of the Ministry of Justice. He noted that experts "found extremism", in particular, in the words of Leo Tolstoy quoted in magazines, and in the statements of the Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno.

Mr. Belenko recalled that on this moment eight local religious organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses were liquidated on the relevant charges: “It was on this basis that the Prosecutor General's Office issued a warning to us. We were told that if this happens again within 12 months, a liquidation claim may be filed.”

He noted that an unscheduled inspection of the Ministry of Justice of the administrative center was carried out on behalf of the Prosecutor General's Office.

“In the course of 12 months, there were 46 facts of planting extremist materials in our liturgical buildings throughout Russia,” says Ivan Belenko, a spokesman for the organization.

Ivan Belenko stated that the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia has not yet received any official information about the suit of the Ministry of Justice: “We learned about it from the media. Yesterday we filed an application with the Supreme Court with a request to dismiss this lawsuit due to non-compliance with the rules: the court is already working, and we have not even seen what we are accused of.”

“If the case is not left without progress, then of course we will try to defend ourselves,” he said. “Of course, we will object to the lawsuit, we will insist that we are infinitely far from extremism, and that justice was denied. Of course, we will fight in the courts to the very end.”

The activity of the sect "Jehovah's Witnesses" has been suspended in Russia in connection with the implementation of extremist activities, according to website of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

Religious organization "Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia" by order of the Ministry of Justice Russian Federation dated 03/15/2017 No. 320-r "On the suspension of the activities of a religious organization" was added to the list of public and religious organizations whose activities were suspended due to their extremist activities, follows from the materials of the site.

In fact, this will be the liquidation of not only the Administrative Center, but also all 395 local religious organizations of the sect of Jehovah's Witnesses, as well as the confiscation of all prayer houses belonging to these organizations. Recognize the Administrative Center as an extremist organization and ban its activities.

If the Justice Department gets its way, any of the 175,000 believers could face up to 10 years in prison simply for practicing their faith.

Earlier, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court to ban the Jehovah's Witnesses organization in the country after violations of anti-extremist legislation revealed during the audit.

Consideration of the administrative claim of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on the recognition of the religious organization "Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia" as extremist, the ban on its activities and liquidation is scheduled for April 5, 2017.

The organization "Jehovah's Witnesses" regularly becomes the object of attention of supervisory authorities in all regions of Russia, in addition, in a number of regions its activities are prohibited.

Earlier, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld decisions on the liquidation of territorial branches of Jehovah's Witnesses in Orel, Stary Oskol and Belgorod, Abinsk Krasnodar Territory, Samara, Birobidzhan and other cities.

Local branches of the organization have repeatedly been brought to administrative responsibility for the distribution of extremist materials: in Tyumen, Abinsk, Samara, Saransk, Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod, Gelendzhik, etc.

Violations

It is known that adherents of the sect are engaged in propaganda of the idea aimed at the destruction of the family, inciting inter-religious hatred. They also oppose the use of donated blood and military service.

Jehovah's Witnesses claim in their writings and sermons that they are better than everyone else. That is, they assert their superiority on religious grounds, as we have written in the definition of extremism. They do not claim that their people are kinder - they just believe correctly, and the rest are wrong. Of course, this can be understood as a statement of superiority, but this is clearly a broader understanding of extremist activity - although they are far from the only ones to whom it has been applied.

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And then there is the Parable of the Return of the Prodigal Son,
and man already enters the Degree of Sonship.
Those. here - both Man and Nature - Adore!
(by the way - this is the function of spreading the Church,
and her missionary work).

"for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world."

While atheists logically follow the denial
both nature and man. And practice has already shown
- the destructive effect of atheism on Nature and Man.
Because in its essence - atheism is the destructive Heresy of Nihilism,
yet at the same time another heresy - belief in the existence of "independent matter".

"We will destroy the whole world to the ground, and then,"
We will build world terror, whoever was nothing will become everything!

What a bright illustration of these two Heresies.

They seem to be declaring materialism, and then
we read the Manifesto of the Communist Party: "a GHOST haunts Europe",
- belief in terry ghosts and fuzzy phantoms.
And also - "Virhi fuzzy fight over us ....", etc.
there - a lot of that, Whirlwinds, Ghosts, and even Hydras.

On the one hand, the God-Man-Nature system, which has been tested for thousands of years, is completely rejected; what is there and it is impossible to cross out something without denying this whole system as a whole. Negative hallucination.
And on the other hand, BELIEF is affirmed in something non-existent and hallucinated, eternal "independent matter", velvety Ghosts and terry Fantomas or Whirlwinds. positive hallucination.

Thus, the fans of the heretical sect of "building atheism" are forced to constantly hallucinate, either a negative hallucination or a positive one. Simply put, cunning scammers - from free people, made dependent and unfree labor zombies, or low-paid golems - without freedom of choice. And by the way, in the same place, Human Rights are almost completely rejected and violated, which is very characteristic and illustrative, even in itself.

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Eg. in the Church of the Holy Cats - we believe that cats exist!
And anyone - even just a sane person understands
that "A World Without Cats" is a fiction, a hallucination,
heresy or something virtual reality,
opposed to the reality around us.

Likewise - the world without God, or - without Man, or - without Nature,
there is a type - "matrix" for the zombie population of the plundered colonies.

And the cries and slogans of "atheists"
- like "We are new - a world without cats, let's build ...",
will already be perceived - as obsessively galloping demoniac,
hostile to the reality around us.

"Whoever does not jump, he is for cats!", "To a kitten for a gilyak!"

Learn - the recent history of our country,
and also - these sectarians "turned back the rivers" and "translated time".

It will even be a deviation - from the human norm
- obsessively jumping demoniac,
hostile
the reality around us.

The result of the activity of these sectarians of atheism is deplorable,
Nature suffered greatly, many people,
and even the state itself - from the World Empire,
became - raw "gas station".

And of course - no "bright future",
and no Prosperity and no Enlightenment
- all these sectarian rogues did not build like that.
And where did the Marxist methodology go???
Oh yes - philosophers were also sent away
on "philosophical boats", remember your story.

The point is not even in cats, but in the madness and bestiality of a godless person.
In the denial of the very - the human principle, and human rights and freedoms.

Suspended the activities of the parent organization of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. The organization, which represents a religious trend that emerged in the United States in the 19th century, was included in the list of public and religious associations whose activities were suspended due to their extremist activities. A week ago, the Ministry of Justice sent a corresponding lawsuit to the Supreme Court of Russia.

“The court received an administrative claim from the Ministry of Justice of Russia to recognize the Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia as an extremist organization and to ban its activities on the territory of Russia,” the court representative said.

On April 5, the Supreme Court will make a final decision on the work of the organization in Russia.

In response, the chairman of the center's steering committee issued a video message in which he called the current trial the most difficult time in the life of 175,000 followers of their church.

“They are asking for capital punishment for all three hundred and ninety-six of our organizations! A special point is to confiscate from believers all their prayer houses and other property! If the Ministry of Justice gets its way, believers will face up to 10 years in prison!” the religious leader pointed out.

In October last year, the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses were banned in Birobidzhan by a decision of the court of the Jewish Autonomous Region due to the distribution of extremist literature.

“According to a court decision, the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Birobidzhan was declared extremist, does not meet the requirements of the Federal Law “On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations”, its activities are prohibited on the territory of Russia, it is liquidated with the exclusion from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities,” – stated in the official announcement.

At the same time, the official representative of the organization noted that the publications included in the list of extremist materials, because of which this decision, did not belong to Jehovah's Witnesses.

“Evidence has accumulated that law enforcement officers and persons cooperating with them systematically throw printed editions included in federal list extremist materials (FSEM),” the church said in a statement.

Last summer, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court recognized the Witnesses' brochure as extremist material. The proceedings concerned January 2015, when Witnesses were distributing a brochure entitled “How did life appear?” in one of the shopping centers in the city of Serov. In the course of the examinations, the experts found that the publication contains statements aimed at inciting hatred and enmity towards other religions. The representative of the religious organization filed an appeal against this decision, but the court left it without consideration.

The defenders of Jehovah's Witnesses are often members of US diplomatic missions. So,

American diplomats expressed concern about the ban on the Witnesses' activities in Taganrog in 2015.

The embassy then called on the Russian authorities to stop the persecution for religious beliefs, and the press secretary of the American embassy said that in Russia "the state denies the rights of religious minorities."

Jehovah's Witnesses are not the first religious organization whose legality is challenged by the Ministry of Justice. On November 23, 2015, he considered the claim of this ministry for the liquidation of the "Church of Scientology of Moscow" and recognized the organization as not complying with federal law. Scientologists were given six months to shut down. Church followers tried to appeal the verdict to the Supreme Court, but the latter upheld the decision of the Moscow City Court.

Yesterday there was a program on the 5th channel from the cycle "The main thing with Nika Strizhak" 04/02/2017. Another attack on the SI before April 5 and the session of the Supreme Court on the complete ban on the SI in the Russian Federation on falsified "evidence".

But I invite all readers to study on the example of one character who appeared in this plot of the 5th channel - a certain Anton Androsov. I think that some SI know him, especially in Belgorod and nearby cities, but it seems to me that we need to show him to the public. And not only him. Because in connection with this "activist", who is about 23-24 years old, a lot of interesting questions arise about the authorities, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Ministry of Justice and the ban on Jehovah's Witnesses.

So, I will start my little "investigation" with the fact that this Anton Androsov, together with 5 other co-founders, registered the organization "BELGOROD REGIONAL PUBLIC ORGANIZATION FOR PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOCRACY AND SOLVING SOCIAL PROBLEMS "FAST YOUTH AID". According to the data on the website "The organization is registered On July 17, 2013 the registrar of the Office of the Federal Tax Service for the Belgorod Region. The chairman of the organization is Androsov Anton Alexandrovich.

But for some reason, quite recently, the organization ceased to exist in the form of this legal entity. On the same site we see:

"The founders are 6 individuals.

Organization of the Belgorod Regional Public Organization for the Promotion of Democracy and Solving Social Problems "Ambulance Youth Assistance" was liquidated on January 11, 2017. The reason: the termination of the legal entity due to the exclusion from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities on the basis of clause 21.1 of the Federal Law of 08.08.2001 No. 129-FZ.

The last entry in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities was made on January 11, 2017, reason: Exclusion from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities of a legal entity that actually ceased its activities.

Why so, you ask? The organization existed as this legal entity for only 3.5 years. Or was it created temporarily for specific purposes?

In a report on Channel 5, it was said that it was this organization from Belgorod that came "upstairs" with an "initiative" to ban SI.

Well, now let's look at this "activist" Anton Androsov and where this very "initiative" came from.

In LiveJournal, he has a journal, which he abandoned at the end of June 2013, and a new organization (mentioned above) appeared just 3 weeks later.

In the profile of this Androsov, it is indicated that he is an "activist of the NASHI 2.0 movement" (pro-Kremlin movement).

In general, this nondescript thin young man told a lot about himself on the network, and he himself. He loves to promote himself so much that now we will learn a lot of interesting things about him and about who directed him and what he “breathes” in general, so to speak.

We noticed: "THE MEETING WAS HELD... UNDER THE PRESIDENCE OF THE METROPOLITAN". "THE MAIN OUTCOME OF THE ACTIVITIES WAS THE PROMOTION OF INITIATIVES TO THE FEDERAL LEVEL"?

Or this one - about the "blessing" of the work plan from the "lord" for 2017 (read, "AGREED" and "APPROVAL").

The inscription next to the photo: "androsovsmp Every year our interaction with the Belgorod Metropolis is getting closer and more trusting. A lot of work has been done, but there is still more to be done. Vladyka John blessed our work plan for 2017. We will work together on many issues. We are saving people , saving children. This is our mission. #SMP #ROC"

Here's another photo.

The inscription next to the photo: "49 weeks.

Androsovsmp Your Eminence! What or who, in your opinion, is now the biggest threat to Belgorod residents? #Question to the Metropolitan "

And here is Androsov in the photo from the meeting of the Metropolia.

He decorated his body with a cross, wings with an eye in the center.

From a certain time, someone pushed this "activist" even to the very top, now he periodically communicates with various "necessary" deputies and officials, coordinating actions and receiving their instructions and various kinds of "support. Sometimes he flies by plane to Moscow. In general , the boy clearly leads a cheerful life, judging by the photo, he does not live in poverty at all and aims to take a place in politics.

He likes to show in the photo that he is in the Duma, at any opportunity he takes a picture with various officials and publishes it for PR.

Do you recognize? Who are the people in the photo with him? Biker "Surgeon" and Nikolai Valuev (member of EdRa).

And here is a photo of Anton Androsov with Dvorkin.

Androsov and Mutko.

Androsov and Onishchenko.

The inscription next to the photo: "24 weeks.

androsovsmp In the meantime, I became the first guest of Sergei Andreevich in the State Duma)"

And here's more:

And here is Zhirinovsky right there.

Caption for this photo: "14 weeks.

Androsovsmp It's time for me to open the rubric "Photos from VVZh". But seriously, Vladimir Volfovich promised to support the NSR from the State Duma and said that we are great and are doing the right things. #Zhirinovsky #SMP "

But Androsov with an ardent Orthodox deputy Milonov, also from EdRa.

Photo caption: "androsovsmp Today we worked all day in the State Duma. The day after tomorrow I will speak at a hearing on the issue of abortion. We will promote the initiative of the patriarch. #Moscow #ROC #SMP #life #patriarch"

We noticed: "WE WILL PROMOTE THE PATRIARCH'S INITIATIVE." You see, Russia is a "secular state", supposedly. There is someone here to "promote Orthodox delusional initiatives." They want to ban abortion or take it outside of the Mandatory health insurance(OMS). They think that they will give birth more or that the nation will be healthier. Well, again, they will save money for the "budget" and "for stealing".

But he posted a photo about the "Expert Council on Education", which will decide how to "educate" patriots for everyone.

Androsovsmp January 17, 2017 In State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation held an introductory meeting Expert Council on Education under the State Duma Committee on Education and Science. This is the first meeting of the Council. created at the end of last year. The main goal of the Expert Council is to create effective system education of a citizen and patriot of Russia. Working groups were approved and preparations began for Parliamentary hearings to be held in the State Duma on February 14, 2017 on the topic "The Immortal Regiment of Russia: Patriotic Education". Recall that the Chairman of the Expert Council Public Organization"Ambulance Youth Help" Anton Androsov.

The meeting of the Expert Council was attended by Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Nikolay Georgievich Zemtsov, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, State Secretary of the Minister Zubov Igor Nikolayevich, Deputy Head of the Office for Work with Personnel of the Federal Service of the National Guard Troops of the Russian Federation Yakunin Vladimir Mikhailovich, Director of the Department public policy in the field of education of children and youth of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation Mikheev Igor Anatolyevich and others.

This, as I understand it, is a pass to the Duma (Androsov posted a "crust" to brag).

And who guided and advised on legal issues (probably about the ban on SI for "extremism"?)

We look:

The caption next to the photo: "androsovsmp The first meeting took place. We discussed with the co-chairman of the Association of Lawyers of Russia, the head of the forum "Alexandrova Gora" Igor Vladimirovich Redkin, the interaction of the Association and the Youth Ambulance, the forum and joint work in the field of legislative initiatives."

Here, it turns out, who helped to deal with "extremism" with the help of falsifications. "Association of Lawyers of Russia", together with the Ministry of Justice and other law enforcement agencies.

But he boasts that he received a letter from Moscow, which says "ADMINISTRATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION" and "government" - the inscription next to it "Delivered with security."

Androsovsmp Exactly one year ago, on December 8, 2015, "Ambulance Youth Help" presented the federal project "Youth Anti-Sectarian Center" in the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The goal of the project is to unite sectarians throughout the country to counteract sects and destructive cults. The project has been active. In 40 regions of Russia, young people began to resist the destructive factor, sects. Dozens of administrative cases, mass events, closures, warnings against extremist activities and much more."

As I understand it, our valiant government has decided: than the young people will demand REALLY social and political changes (which do not exist) - we will direct them to "let off steam" and be distracted by ... "the fight against terrible sectarian evil." Let them be distracted, busy, let them "fight" themselves. We will even support this, somewhere we will give money to such Androsovs and his "activists". The main thing is that no one should look at real major problems.

But Androsov announced a program on Instagram, where he was going to light up with a performance.

Caption: "2 days.

Androsovsmp Witnesses of God or dangerous extremists? What are the dangerous foreign Jehovah's Witnesses doing in Russia? How many followers they have, and why, instead of saving the souls of believers, they rob them to the skin. And who do they really serve so passionately? You can find out the answers to these questions on 04/02/2017, Sunday, at 18:00 on Channel Five.

But he spoke about the lawsuit of the Ministry of Justice to ban the SI in the Russian Federation:

Androsovsmp Finally! A lawsuit was filed with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to liquidate the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.

On the site Supreme Court The Russian Federation received information that the Ministry of Justice of Russia filed a lawsuit to recognize the "Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia" as an extremist organization, liquidate and ban its activities.

Jehovists immediately began sending out to the media that they were white and fluffy, that they had been slandered, and that extremism was deeply alien to them. As the chairman of the Organization, which worked in the direction of countering this sect in the Belgorod region (in Belgorod and Stary Oskol, the organization has already been recognized as extremist and liquidated), I want to speak out:

1) Several dozen magazines of Jehovah's Witnesses have been recognized as extremist. It's not just 1-2 experts who made a decision - it's a lot of experts, at different times and in different places. The spread of extremist literature is the spread of extremism.

2) A ban on blood transfusions for yourself and your children. Even if the doctor says that ONLY a blood transfusion will save, they will still refuse. Every Jehovist is a potential suicide bomber who carries with him a refusal of a blood transfusion.

3) A ban on military service (they choose an alternative service, thanks to which they get to hospitals and nursing homes and where potential adherents are processed) and a ban on taking part in elections. Let's imagine that if tomorrow 51% of the country becomes Jehovah's Witnesses, this means abandoning the army and the state. This is their ideology. Imagine a country without an army and a state.

4) Violation of the convention on the rights of the child - Jehovists forbid children to celebrate secular holidays. I know cases when parents beat children for celebrating their birthday.

You can list a dozen more reasons to eliminate the American sect on the territory of the Russian Federation. AMERICANS are doing everything so that we are divided, so that traditional confessions are broken - and these are our traditions, on which we exist and live. I know a hundred more cases when the Jehovists violated the law, sacrificed themselves or their loved ones. I'm for a ban!!!"

It's interesting, but people like this Anton Androsov don't give a damn about 1. Freedom of speech and religion. 2. On legality in the Russian Federation. 3. On people who fall under the ban. 4. To people who are connected with those who will be banned (relatives and friends of the SI). 5. To the fact that the prohibition of the SI will do more harm than good and that there are other ways in which one can fight the destructiveness of such a sect.

Such Androsovs do not care about all this. Because his career is important to him. He needs to work out his rations, his "goodies" from the authorities. He is already asleep and sees how to get into the Duma without soap, apparently, he kisses the hands not only of the "masters", but also of everyone he can reach upstairs.

In general, the guy is clearly preparing. Here is such a "rest", apparently, with other activists and activists. So what? Bath girls...

But they clearly did not share something with the organizers in Orel.

As far as I understand, the ROC is just moving such "lobbyists" and supporters into power now. Intolerant in others, careerists, ready to bend to any demand. So we have a new USSR with "Orthodox commissars" just around the corner.

And to make it even clearer how rude and impudent this careerist activist is, I suggest watching two videos with his participation.

And here are the results of the actions of such "activists" - jerks, together with their leaders, priests, deputies:

"It is generally accepted that the state protects its citizens. That is why there are law enforcement. But sometimes the opposite happens: government officials attack citizens, taking advantage of their defenselessness in front of the state machine, and in addition, they deprive them of any means for legal protection when both the judiciary and supervisory authorities, and the laws themselves simply stop working. The story that unfolds in Arkhangelsk is one of many examples, but it eloquently shows the depth of those practices that some officials do not disdain today.

It began on April 3, 2015, when several FSB officers came to search the building of the local community of Jehovah's Witnesses, which is officially registered with the Department of Justice and does not violate any law. Having shown the search warrant signed by Major General of the FSB Tataurov V.F., they immediately, in front of the astonished believers, under video recording, carried out - according to the believers themselves - tossing "extremist" literature into the bookcase. Even witnesses at the same time tried to do everything possible to hide the moment of the tossing from the believers. At the same time, the head of the local religious organization (LRO), Alexander Parygin, as well as his wife, had their phones blocked, so that they could not call anyone and no one could call them.

We wrote "extremist" in quotation marks, because the authorities see all the "extremism" of Jehovah's Witnesses only in the fact that they consider their religion to be right - as if there is a religion that considers itself wrong. And note how crafty this tactic is used: first, some literature is declared “extremist” for calling a certain religion correct, and then this same literature is thrown at believers in order to incriminate them with its possession and then delegalize their religion, turning them, in fact , into criminals. This has already happened in Taganrog, where people are officially, by a court decision, denied the right to believe in God according to their conscience and beliefs.

In the Arkhangelsk liturgical building, unexpectedly, right in the cupboard with literature, 11 brochures were “found” that were included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials, although believers carefully monitor that there is no such literature in the building. The video shows how one of the employees approaches the closet, takes something out of his pocket, then quickly takes a pack of literature from the closet and, without even searching it, says to witnesses: “Attention, look!” When later the court asks this employee what he was doing at the bookcase and why he was rummaging through his pockets, he will innocently answer: “I checked if the certificate was in place.”

A few months later, on December 16, another throw was carried out - this time in the car to Alexander Parygin. Law enforcement officers again resorted to a staged search, which is carried out with only one purpose - to “find” literature, which they themselves planted. At the same time, his rights were grossly violated: he was forbidden to call his lawyer and his wife, his phone was tapped, his personal belongings, including computers, were confiscated and never returned.

During a staged search in Parygin's car, a pack of 31 brochures was unexpectedly "found" in a conspicuous place, which Jehovah's Witnesses have not used for a long time, and with inscriptions that they have never used. For example, on the pack it was written: “Give it out by January 15, 2016.” Later, the believer, fined 1,500 rubles, argued in vain in court that such inscriptions do not exist in the literature of witnesses, and the word “distribute” is, in principle, not in their vocabulary. The director of this performance did not even try to portray something similar to what happens with witnesses. The court was not interested. Just as he was not interested in the contents of the pack, which was not opened during the hearings. Paradoxically, neither the prosecutor, when drawing up a protocol on administrative offense, neither the judge, when issuing a guilty verdict, examined the literature, because of which Parygin was fined and went to court.

But the offensive against Jehovah's Witnesses in Arkhangelsk is not only carried out by the FSB. Simultaneously with the planting of literature, the Department of the Ministry of Justice for the Arkhangelsk Region decided to fine the LRO for formal violations of the charter of the LRO, and this despite the fact that the same department had previously approved this charter and did not find any violations in it. However, last summer officials unexpectedly decided that the goals and objectives were incorrectly formulated in the charter - and not so much formulated as formalized. This claim is not based on any rule of law, but believers have not been able to protest the absurd fine. No one in Arkhangelsk has any doubts that this is just another phase in a cycle of attempts to falsify charges against Jehovah's Witnesses and thus liquidate their LPOs, for which the most sophisticated methods are used.

The legislature is not far behind. In December 2015, the Arkhangelsk Regional Assembly finally adopted the so-called law on missionary activity, which assumes that citizens will have to obtain special permission only to talk about their faith (everyone understands who will receive such permission and who will not). In February of this year, Arkhangelsk deputies even proposed to the State Duma that they make appropriate amendments to the law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations" in order to include the concepts of "missionary" and "missionary activity" in it. This is how an attempt is made to cancel Article 28 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, according to which every citizen has the right "to freely choose, have and disseminate religious and other beliefs."

No guilt - let's think

The very fact that the authorities have to resort to planting and various bureaucratic hooks directly indicates that there is no other evidence of the offenses of Jehovah's Witnesses on which they could be caught. After all, what's the point of planting literature if they have real violations? In the absence of real violations, imaginary ones have to be invented. If there is no corpus delicti, we will create it by inventing "extremism" where no one in the world sees it. If there is no evidence, we will throw it up, since it is not difficult, the technology has long been known. So peaceful, law-abiding citizens turn into criminals just because they "wrongly" believe in God.

Local authorities have perfected such technologies to perfection; they have already been “successfully” used in Belgorod, Samara, Tyumen and other cities. In some cases, believers managed to stop such attempts, for example, in Sevastopol and Balakovo, but this does not always work out. In a number of cases, the tosses were also filmed on video, and even more clearly than in Arkhangelsk, but this was also not of interest to the courts. Paradoxically, believers have to install video cameras to protect themselves not from criminals, but from those who are called upon to protect them from these criminals.

The algorithm of the authorities' actions is very simple: after the planting, a warning from the prosecutor's office is enough, and then the LRO can be liquidated by a quick court decision. In Arkhangelsk, such a warning was issued on June 11, 2015, it was appealed twice (to the district court and the regional one), and twice to no avail. The judges were not even ready to listen to the Jehovah's Witnesses, although in both cases the planting was too obvious for all participants in the trials. It is noteworthy that the same pamphlets (the same ones?) that were found at Parygin's were confiscated a little earlier from another local Jehovah's Witness. However, he, unlike Parygin, was not a member of the MPO, which technically did not allow using the fact of storing literature against the organization.

The authorities are actively using provocateurs and other agents who infiltrate communities of believers and try to provoke them into various violations, or simply keep an eye on them. For example, in Arkhangelsk, at least one person who attended the services of Jehovah's Witnesses, back in 2014, openly admitted that the FSB offered him to plant literature on them, but he refused. Another person openly provoked witnesses to give him "extremist" publications. Later, he unexpectedly appeared in court as a witness from the FSB. In yet another case, the search was conducted by a police officer who had previously actively interacted with Jehovah's Witnesses and studied the Bible with them.

Despite the gross violations during the searches, the Arkhangelsk Jehovah's Witnesses were not even able to file a complaint against these violations: both the district and regional courts simply rejected the claims, citing (just think about it) the impossibility of interfering in the "internal affairs of the FSB." Thus, it is stated that the FSB is an organization outside the jurisdiction, from which it is impossible to defend oneself, whose actions cannot be appealed.

When the courts do examine the actions of the FSB, the most amazing things happen: a judge who is ready to listen to witnesses can be replaced by one who is extremely annoyed by their very existence; or the judge, who at the first hearing was ready to honestly sort out the situation, by the second hearing suddenly changes his face, becomes irritable and wants to finish the case faster - again with the right verdict; the court refuses to conduct any examinations to which the plaintiffs (Jehovah's Witnesses) have every right; the court retires for a deliberation and does not actually confer, but immediately announces the verdict. Believers in Arkhangelsk have observed all this more than once, seeing how the entire legal machine turns into a fiction when the necessary button is pressed somewhere above.

Looking for reasons

Back in 2011, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Vladimir Lukin, sent a letter to the then Minister for regional policy Arkhangelsk region Alexander Belyaev. In the letter, the Ombudsman drew attention to the following: "Religious organizations Jehovah's Witnesses are legally recognized and legally operating Russian religious organizations, and their followers are citizens of the Russian Federation, whose rights cannot be arbitrarily restricted due to their ideological choice and membership in a particular church."

The letter drew attention to the violations that the authorities of the Arkhangelsk region committed against Jehovah's Witnesses, trying to create various obstacles for them, and ordered them to be eliminated. Five years have passed, but the situation has only worsened. Unfortunately, Minister Belyaev passed away in 2012. The new authorities of the region no longer simply “arbitrarily restrict” the rights of citizens on religious grounds, but have launched an aggressive illegal offensive against them.

The statements of Acting Governor Igor Orlov help to understand what is happening in Arkhangelsk today. In his interview to the official website of the Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory diocese, he openly stated that he intended to "delegalize" Jehovah's Witnesses in the region. He said, among other things: "A person can worship Perun or anyone, but should not harm others and force them to commit illegal acts."

What kind of illegal acts are committed by Arkhangelsk witnesses, the governor decided not to specify. He cannot fail to know that the witnesses did not kill or rob anyone, that the prosecutor's offices of the city and the region do not have a single filed case on their offenses, not a single lawsuit, not a single victim - nothing, zero. But the governor talks again and again about the mythical violations of the witnesses, without citing a single fact.

Whether the governor knows about some secret, especially mysterious crimes of Jehovah's Witnesses, which the police and the prosecutor's office do not know about, but is silent at the same time, is difficult to judge. But his friendship with the new Metropolitan of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory ROC Daniel is well known. Neither one nor the other is embarrassed by this, openly saying in the press that the authorities should help the church in the fight against its competitors, violating all secular foundations. political system. In the interview mentioned above, the governor said that the government should fight against Jehovah's Witnesses not alone, but "together with the Church." This cooperation was also manifested in the fact that Metropolitan Daniel actively participated in lawsuits. He sent whole delegations of 20-25 parishioners to them, who were properly instructed.

People who know Governor Orlov well (such as his former colleagues at the Zvyozdochka factory in Severodvinsk) confirm that the metropolitan has big influence. So much so that the governor began to sincerely believe that the problems of the region cannot be overcome without spiritual revival, and spiritual revival requires the achievement of two goals: 1) the already mentioned liquidation of Jehovah's Witnesses by turning them into second-class citizens; 2) the construction of a gigantic Cathedral of the Archangel Michael of God with budget money. On the official website of the cathedral under construction, Orlov said that the cathedral "would mark the revival of the North."

Everything falls into place when you understand what the current regional authorities see as the priorities of their activities, which has grown together with the authorities of the church to the point of indistinguishability. The revival of the North in Arkhangelsk mysteriously goes hand in hand with the infringement of the constitutional rights of citizens on religious grounds, insulting their religious feelings (which is prohibited by law today, but who cares?). Of course, hunting for a handful of believers is both easier and cheaper than solving the real problems of the region, primarily economic ones. The Archangel (Archangel) Michael would definitely not approve of the vile tactics that are used for this.

Here is another illustrative quote from an interview with Mr. Orlov: “Only within the framework of the law can one prove that a particular community does not correspond to the interests of society and the state. This process is always difficult, but the work continues.” Planting prohibited literature, wiretapping and blocking telephones, confiscation of personal belongings without return, refusals to appeal against the illegal actions of the FSB, refusals to conduct expert examinations, and much of that kind - all this, it should be assumed, is completely “within the law”. That law, which is designed to protect the interests of citizens, but which in Arkhangelsk is used for their especially cynical trampling.

The Arkhangelsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church probably understands the laws in exactly the same way, which supposedly should bring to society the Christian values ​​of justice and mercy. At the end of 2014, Metropolitan Daniel urged the inhabitants of Arkhangelsk to "do good deeds, speak kind words and refrain from sinful deeds." Less than six months later, a campaign to fabricate evidence against law-abiding citizens began, judging by many statements from the diocese, with the approval of the metropolitan. It should also be taken into account that such attempts to degalogue some communities arise not only in relation to Jehovah's Witnesses, but also Protestant churches which the authorities and the Russian Orthodox Church consider "unconventional" and "unreliable".

In this regard, the governor's phrase "work continues" sounds especially ominous. I would like to believe that we are not talking about continuing the work of fabricating charges against citizens of the Arkhangelsk region, combined with police and judicial arbitrariness."