2.1 The authors are members of the Minsk Vaishnava community (community of Krishna consciousness), one of seven such communities registered in Belarus.

Vijayawada is the largest city on the River Krishna.

I Voted photo by Krishna Praveen, used under a (CC BY NC SA 2.0 license.

The refusal to register the Krishna group because of its residential address was thus unreasonable.

The panel was chaired by Jaya Krishna Cuttaree, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Regional Cooperation of Mauritius.

The seven existing Krishna communities in Belarus have an autonomous status and are not subject to religious control.

This term is used to describe that a person should be as quiet as Krishna.

The Krishna River is the third longest river in central southern India, after the Ganges and the Godavari.

It is said that Lord Dattatreya spent some of his days at Audumber on the banks of river Krishna.

The refusal to register the Krishna group as a religious association was appealed to the Minsk Central District Court in 2002.

Since 1992, the authors have actively participated in the Minsk Krishna community, which has been registered in accordance with law.

The Krishna does not have the minimum number of communities, and cannot point to a 20 year history within Belarus.

The Krishna river rises in the Western Ghats, at an elevation of about 1337 m just north of Mahabaleshwar, about 64 km from the Arabian Sea.

Irwin Bridge, Sangli This is one of the oldest, historic and largest bridges over the Krishna that were built by the British.

The main alternative would be majority alliance put together by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by the 82 year old Lal Krishna Advani.

Started by three musicians, T.M. Krishna, H.K. Venkatram and Shriram Kumar, Shabda aims to bring Indian arts and culture to a wider audience.

(a) The limited increase in the ability of members of certain religious minority groups, including members of the Baha'i faith, the Baptist church, the Hare Krishna movement and the Seventh Day Adventist church, to practise their religion

However, the Indian Minister for External Affairs, S.M. Krishna tried to diffuse tensions and assured Bangladesh that India remains committed to an early solution on the issue of sharing Teesta waters.

2.2 On 10 May 2001, the authors filed an application with the Committee on Religions and Nationalities ( the C.R.N. ), seeking the registration of the seven Krishna communities in Belarus as a religious association.

The Human Rights Committee now properly finds that the state party violated article 18 of the Covenant by refusing to accept the legal address of the Krishna community as an administrative seat for a religious association.

However, when Draupadi silently pleads to Krishna (a major Hindu deity), he aids her with an endless supply of sari cloth which the enemy is unable to strip away from her, and this act ultimately saves Draupadi from her public humiliation.

2.6 As a result of the C.R.N. 's refusal to register the association, members of the seven Krishna communities, including the authors, have been deprived of the right to establish spiritual educational institutions to train their priests, making it impossible to support religious doctrine appropriately.

In particular, the draft constitution of the association stated that the new body aspired to making the International Society of Krishna Consciousness, which is only one of many branches of Vishnu Hinduism, the only religious organization representing Vishnuism in Belarus.

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