Secular Regimes and State Engagement with Religion in post-Soviet Eurasia
Journal: eScholarship (California Digital Library)
Year: 2013

The post-Soviet region is the only area of the world in which every state is secular. Since independence in 1991, each of the 15 states has formally declared its secular nature; however, they have had drastically different policies towards religion. The Baltic states and Ukraine have relatively liberal policies in which religious groups and people are more or less free to operate without much restriction. In Armenia, Russia, Moldova and Georgia there is a certain level of cooperation between the