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Press & Media

Interviews, conferences and publications about controlling groups and how people leave them.

Research and articles

Research on the concept of “sekta”

A sociolinguistic study of how people understand the word “sekta” and why it matters.

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“Beware: Cult!”

How the word “sekta” was portrayed in the print media after the collapse of the USSR, 1990–2000.

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Cults Can’t Hide!

How to tell a harmless religious organisation from a totalitarian one, and what is being done about it in Latvia.

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A series of articles about cults

A selection of publications, and why the media sometimes take words out of context.

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Conferences

FECRIS 2017, Brussels

The annual international conference of the European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Cults and Sects.

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FECRIS 2018, Riga

The FECRIS conference in Latvia, organised with the Latvian Committee for Combating Totalitarian Sects.

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Europe United Against Cults!

The largest European conference on cults will be held in Latvia, 1 June 2017.

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Interviews and television

“Morning at Baltcom”

A television appearance with Viktor Yolkin.

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Islamist Manipulators in Latvia and the Refugees

Interview for Vesti Segodnya, 9 November 2015.

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