LAWSUIT
BY KUMAR
PRAKASH AGAINST IRENAEUS OF LYON RUSSIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTERS
FOR STUDY OF
RELIGIONS AND SECTS DISCUSSED IN STATE DUMA
SOVA
Center
for
News and Analysis, 15 December 2017
On
12 December
2017, a roundtable was held in the State Duma, the occasion for
which was an
appeal by the head of the Center for Facilitating the
Preservation and
Development of Hindu Culture, Kumar Prakash, who is worried
about the growth of
religious intolerance in Russia.
Participants
in
the event included Vadim Samodurov (the emcee), Prasun Prakash
(the son of
Kumar Prakash), Pavel Kostylev, attorney Kali Akhilgov, Semmi
Kotvani (the
president of the Association of Indian Business in Russia), and
deputy Valery
Rashkin (C.P.R.F.), who in March 2017 called for investigating
the activity of
the "sectologist" Alexander Dvorkin because of his statements
about
Hinduism.
Prasun
Parkash
described for the audience how "A. Dvorkin's forum has for two
years now
conducted propaganda work against their society and several news
media draw
upon this branch of the forum for information for their
articles." In late
2016 Kumar Prakash filed a lawsuit in court against the St.
Irenaeus of Lyon
Russian Association of Centers for Study of Religions and Sects,
headed by A. Dvorkin,
but he did not win the case.
"The
forum
that Mr. Dvorkin leads," V. Rashkin said in his turn, "harms the
establishment of intercultural and friendly relations with
India. I think that
it has already reached severity. If people begin to come out
onto the streets
in rallies, this would get hot. It is now time to take measures
from the
government's point of view and to attract the attention of law
enforcement
agencies."
We recall that in early February 2017 there was a demonstration of protest in Delhi, whose participants accused A. Dvorkin of "defaming Hinduism and offending their religious feelings." (tr. by PDS, posted 16 December 2017)
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