Author: Paul Goble

Source: The Georgian Daily

http://georgiandaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20317&Itemid=72

At a time when religious organizations are seeking an ever greater role in Russia’s public life and when clashes among them are increasingly frequent, Russia’s atheist community has formed a new public movement to defend secularism, a principle enshrined in the Russian Constitution but increasingly ignored by the powers that be.