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World Service,21 Jan 2001,12 mins

Putin hands out state decorations to clerics

Reporting Religion

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The Russian President handed out medals and spoke without irony of the merits of religion. Are we seeing a return to the Tsarist era when the Church was the handmaiden of the state? Also on the programme: women in Kuwait protest as once again they're denied political rights and after an anti-Semitic law in the English city of Leicester is renounced, why aren't the Jews there celebrating?

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