Council for Religious Affairs

Council for Religious Affairs

The Council for Religious Affairs (Russian: Совет по делам религий) was a government council in the Soviet Union that dealt with religious activity in the country. It was founded in 1965 though the union of the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Council for the Affairs of Religious Cults.[1] It ceased to exist after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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  • Vladimir Kuroedov (1960—1984)
  • Konstantin Kharchev (1984—1989)
  • Yuri Khristoradnov

Notes

  1. ^ Ro'i 2000, 12.

References

  • Ro'i, Yaacov (2000), Islam in the Soviet Union. From the Second World War to Gorbachev, New York: Columbia University Press, ISBN 0-231-11954-2 

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