After 67 years' residence in Krasnodon (now in Russian-occupied Luhansk Region), Council of Churches Baptist Pastor Vladimir Rytikov faces deportation from Russian-occupied Ukraine and Russia. On 6 October, Russian-controlled Luhansk Supreme Court rejected his suit to overturn the annulment of his residence permit. Russia's FSB brands him a "threat to security", apparently for leading his church, but has not revealed details. "Over the past seven years I have been taken to court many times: for missionary activity and holding services without giving notification of the start of a religious group's activity," he says.
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