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Katrina Lantos Swett, Robert P. George: Russia’s extremism law violates human rights
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) lays flowers as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill (R) follows him during the ceremony of unveiling the monument to Russian Emperor Alexander the First in the Alexander Gardens outside the Kremlin walls in Moscow on Nov. 20.
Last Friday,Nov. 21, a video deemed offensive to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church was ruled "extremist" by a city court in Vladimir. While Alexander Soldatov - chief editor of Credo.ru, the website that posted the offending video - now could also be tried for extremism, the real defendants should be Russia's extremism law and the officials who are helping expand its reach and influence across the country.
