Friday, March 26, 2010

Government Refuses to Strike “God” from Russian Anthem

Boris Kashin, a State Duma Communist Party faction member, proposed changing the words “our land protected by God” in Russia's national anthem to “our land protected by us” on the ground that Russia is a secular state under its Constitution. The government disagreed, arguing that the rewording is not supported by “relevant statistical data” and no calculation of related expenses is provided. In practice the negative governmental opinion means that the bill is dead.

http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1342966&NodesID=7

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