Once a Soviet, Always a Soviet

The Moscow Times

Thursday, January 26, 2006. Page 1.
Putin: Spy Flap Justifies NGO LawBy Carl Schreck Staff Writer

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday cited a purported British spy ring as justification for the controversial law that will tighten state control over nongovernmental organizations. But he said he had not decided whether four British diplomats accused of being spies should be expelled.
Two days after the Federal Security Service, or FSB, announced that it had uncovered a spy ring of four mid-ranking diplomats at the British Embassy and their Russian contact, Putin said that "it has now become clear to many why Russia passed a law regulating NGO activities."

So, Putin is stopping Christian Missionaries and local churches from their activities because the British EMBASSY is caught spying? Wow, what Soviet style paranoia.

Pray for Galina and her family and her ministry. Our friends Arthur and Betty Gasch are preparing to visit in a few weeks.