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Chechen president slams U.S. govt commission criticizing religious freedom in Russia

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"The U.S. acts brutally exactly in countries where most people practice Islam. Against this background, it is a sacrilege to raise concerns about the observance of religious freedoms in Russia. The authors of the report live in the past and do not know anything about changes that have occurred in Russia on the whole and Chechnya in particular," Kadyrov said.

A new report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom placed Russia on its watch list for close monitoring of serious violations of religious freedom alongside countries like Afghanistan and Byelorussia.