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Russia: Information on the treatment of Catholics in Russia? 16 March 2011 \| Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre \| Document type: Query Responses
Russian Federation: 1. Please advise as to how many synagogues there were in Krasnodar (or Kraznodar?) in the period 1977- June 1996; and February 1998-February 2004. 2. Please advise as to how many synagogues there were in Ryazan from June 1996-February 1998. 3. Please advise as to whether Jews in Russia, particularly in Krasnodar and Ryazan, have become disconnected with their religion during Communist rule and then after the break up of the Soviet Union. 4. Are Jews in USSR/Russia considered to be an ethnic group rather than a religion? 5. Please advise the meaning of the following Jewish terms/objects, and whether they have a different word to describe them in Russia, particularly in Krasnodar: * Menorah (7-pronged candlestick); * Torah (book of the teaching and judgments of early Jewish priests); * there is also another book, the Talmud. Please provide the definition of that as well. * Yumulkah (skull cap; it may be Tubiteyka in Russian); * Ashkenazi (the group of Jews who emanate from Europe; compare Sephardi); * Bar mitzvah (ceremony for a boy at age 13 when he acquires religious obligations); * Moile (man who performs the ritual circumcision; this may be the Yiddish word and the Russian word may be Reznick or Reznik). 6. When is ritual circumcision to take place? (Within 7 days of the birth of the male child?) 8 May 2006 \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
Russia: Follow-up to RUS31954.E of 12 May 1999 on attacks on Jehovah's Witnesses by the police or nationalists in Naryan-Mar (January 1997 - January 1999) 1 June 1999 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Russia: The Pentecostal community; including its hierarchy; in Barnaul: the name of the church and the pastor, the size of the community, its treatment, and whether there were any incidents of abuse of members in 1996 and 1997 (January 1996 - January 1999) 1 January 1999 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Russia: Treatment of Doukhobors (Dukhobors) and state protection available to them 1 January 1999 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Russia: Update to Response to Information Request RUS29447.E of 26 May 1998: whether Jehovah's Witnesses encounter any difficulties, whether they are restricted in their ability to practise their religion, whether there have been incidents in which they were harassed, mistreated, threatened with violence or were victims of violence on account of their religious views or activities and, if so, details on the incidents (1 June 1997 - May 1998) 1 June 1998 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Russia: Whether Jehovah's Witnesses encounter any difficulties, whether they are restricted in their ability to practice their religion, whether there have been incidents in which they were harassed, mistreated, threatened with violence or were victims of violence on account of their religious views or activities and, if so, details on the incidents (1 June 1997 - May 1998) 1 May 1998 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Russia: Information on the law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations" and its impact on religious minorities 1 November 1997 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Russia: Information on the current treatment of Kazakhs in Russia 1 June 1996 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
Russia: Information on the situation of Evangelists and whether they encounter any difficulties from the Russian authorities 1 December 1992 \| Publisher: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses

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