However, the authorities insisted that the prayer house had been built illegally and offered to legalize it first as municipal property, and then allow A. Yeropkin to use it for free in the status of a residential bestate/b. On 15 December, the lower court ruled in favor ... Jehovah's witnesses in bDzerzhinsk/b, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, have also failed to obtain a land for construction of a building for worship. In 2006, earlier conflicts around religious buildings continued. ...
Russia has long sponsored the Abkhaz regime in the hope of annexing the ruggedly beautiful region, once a favored bvacation/b spot for Soviet leaders. Roughly the size of Delaware, it boasts a 150-mile Black Sea shoreline and lies just 25 miles south of the Russian city of b....../b FSB have no over legacy, as national security service it was founded by bDzerzhinski/b and there was no other agency like this in Russia before revolution, except "ohranca", but it was a police unit. b.../b