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The Fall Of Traditional Islam In Kyrgyzstan
The central Asian country is, according to the director of Bishkek’s Centre on Religion, Law and Politics, undergoing an irreversible process of Islamification. Speaking to Russia’s Regnum news agency… more →
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The Fall Of Traditional Islam In Kyrgyzstan
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Robert Bonnett wrote 1 day ago: The central Asian country is, according to the director of Bishkek’s Centre on Religion, Law and Pol … more →
Russian Samizdat Website Labelled “Extremist”
Robert Bonnett wrote 3 days ago: And all because one of its contributors wrote articles critical of his former employer. A court in C … more →
Eid al-Adha In Russia
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Robert Bonnett wrote 5 days ago: Today sees the start of Kurban-Bayram (Eid al-Adha), in which Russian Muslims and their coreligionis … more →
Muslim Cleric Fined For Early Call To Prayers
Robert Bonnett wrote 1 week ago: A court in Orsk, Russia, has fined the imam of the local mosque after he ignored a previous warning … more →
Celebrating World Philosophy Day – With A Punch Up
Robert Bonnett wrote 2 weeks ago: Several police units paid a visit to the Russian Academy of Sciences’ House of Scholars in Mos … more →
Connoisseurs From Birth
Robert Bonnett wrote 2 weeks ago: Such is the aim of a program at The Russian Museum reports local newspaper the St. Petersburg Times. … more →
Gorbachev On Twitter
Robert Bonnett wrote 3 weeks ago: Yep, it’s official, Gorby has joined the micro-blogging cosmos, after quite miraculously mastering t … more →
Kyrgyzstan - Redefining ‘Feral’ Youths
Robert Bonnett wrote 3 weeks ago: We’ve all encountered them at some point or another. They’re easily identified by their choice of ba … more →
Communism – It Wasn’t All Bad (Apparently)
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Robert Bonnett wrote 4 weeks ago: A new study by the Pew Research Center has found that twenty years after the fall of the Berliner Ma … more →
One In Three Russian Political Prisoners A Muslim
Robert Bonnett wrote 1 month ago: Despite Islam’s status as the most expanding religion in Russia (and elsewhere) where the number of … more →
A Sign From Allah – Like, Okay . . .
Robert Bonnett wrote 1 month ago: It’s all about nine month old baby Ali in Dagestan, you see. As a newborn, doctors diagnosed him as … more →
Back in the USSR
Ron Pavellas wrote 1 month ago: Been away so long I hardly knew the place Gee, it’s good to be back home Leave it till tomorro … more →
There Is No God And Karl Marx Is His Prophet
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Robert Bonnett wrote 1 month ago: According to communist mockery of the shahada (the Islamic declaration of faith: ‘There is no God bu … more →
The Art Of Preserving Dead Communists
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Robert Bonnett wrote 1 month ago: Ho Chi Minh A team of Russian scientists and medical experts have arrived in Vietnam with the expres … more →
Russia To Triple Beer Tax
Robert Bonnett wrote 1 month ago: In a bid to cork the bottle of government finances before it’s completely decanted, the Kremlin plan … more →
Hotel Babi Yar
Robert Bonnett wrote 2 months ago: For two days at the end of September 1941 the Nazis slaughtered with machine guns nearly 34,000 Jews … more →
Let It Be – Russian Style
Robert Bonnett wrote 2 months ago: Take one Russian military band, in this case the apparently famous Black Sea Fleet orchestra. Give t … more →
Inglourious Basterds – Bomb Threats
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Robert Bonnett wrote 2 months ago: And no, the title isn’t down to poor spelling on my part. ‘Inglourious Basterds’ is apparently the T … more →
Mandatory Drugs Tests For All Students
Robert Bonnett wrote 2 months ago: Or so Russian president Dmitry Medvedev suggests there should be, and he may have a point. The numbe … more →
