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Bhagavad Gita Texts Up for Experts to Judge - Russian Ombudsman

12:35 11/04/2012 TOMSK, April 11 (RIA Novosti)

Russia’s human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin said it should be up to experts rather than judges to decide on disputed Bhagavad Gita texts that a Siberian court tried to ban as extremist.

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