NEW STATE POLICY OF RUSSIA AND SOME EUROPEAN STATES IN REGARD TO RELIGIOUS SECTS

Abstract

Russian Federation, as well as a number of European states, has started with a kind of revision of the views on activity of non-traditional, foreign religious organizations, world wide known as sects. In Russian Federation there has been a ban on activity of a “Aum Shinrikyou” sect, and in the city of Moscow the activity of “The Witnesses of Jehova” has also been banned. In France, “The Order of the Temple of Sun” and so-called Church of Scientology have been banned lately, while in Italy there have been close monitoring and controlling of occult religious organization going on. In regard to these recent events it was discovered that some religious organizations (sects) contributed to destabilization of society, strengthening of criminality and drug addiction, to the change of cultural standards and national thinking as well as to political destabilization of society and state. In addition to it, attention has also been paid to the children and family abuse and disrespect of the Labor Law.