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Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, Deputy Chairman...

entification documents, and the Supreme Court granted this right after a long hearing. Many liberally minded journalists and officials did not approve of this, of course. But their reasoning was weak, just like in the West. Their key anti-hijab argument was that "any explicit manifestation of religion will split society." However, no inter-religious clashes have so far been provoked by hijabs. Moreover, followers of orthodox Islam have been living in Russia for centuries along with those of no less stringent Orthodox Christianity. Islamic laws were even in force in certain parts of Russia before 1917, and it never affected the lifestyles of the majority of the population. I am deeply convinced that adherents of different religions and world outlooks can and must coexist in peace. To do this, all of us - Christians, Muslims, Jews and Humanists - must first learn to respect each other. We should recognise the right of each religious group to its own "sub-space", and more, to a part of the

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