Wednesday, July 08, 2015

Russia Bans Yoga as 'Evil Cult'

Russian officials have banned yoga on the grounds that it can be the basis for 'evil religious cults':

http://time.com/3942725/russian-yoga-ban-religious-cults-nizhnevartovsk/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-bans-yoga-as-part-of-crackdown-on-religious-cults-10355676.html

2 comments:

Pagan said...

From one of the comments:
"Authorities of 73rd largest Russian city sent a letter to two yoga studios telling them they may no longer host their classes in municipal buildings – and then almost as soon realized this was an error and told the yoga clubs to disregard the letters....yet western MSM cannot wait to fake more news in order to please Wall Street".

witan said...

China banned Falun Gong in 1999, and was reported to be "persecuting" its practitioners and teachers. (see: Persecution of Falun Gong)