Chechen religious figure wants foreign sects barred from Russia

Gudermes, August 23, Interfax - A Chechen religious leader, the Council of Alims Chairman Khozhahmed Kadyrov has called on the nation's leadership to bar entry by emissaries of foreign-funded "Satanic sects and pseudo-religious groups."

"The state must not remain on the sidelines, disregarding what various Satanic sects and pseudo-religious groups, funded abroad, are doing in this country," Kadyrov told an international peace forum in Gudermes on Thursday.

"It is absolutely clear that their interests are funded from broad and will never benefit the development and prosperity of civil society in Russia," he said.