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“Ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses is a counterproductive approach”

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Published 13 July, 2009, 15:10

There are at least tens of thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia and, if banned, they will go into hiding and it will be a source of conflict, says Andrey Zolotov from magazine Russia Profile.

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