Discrimination

Vyborg customs again blocks the import of Bibles into Russia

Leningrad Region

On January 14, 2016, a complaint was filed with the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region against the actions of the customs, which on November 27, 2015 again blocked the import into Russia of holy books for the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. This time, a batch of Bibles in the official translation of the Russian Orthodox Church (Synodal Edition), as well as a batch of the "Cognitive Bible" issued by the RBS, were not allowed into the country. Earlier, the Vyborg customs did not allow 2,016 copies of the New World Translation of the Bible in Russian and Ossetian languages to enter Russia.