{"id":1844,"date":"2013-10-31T10:42:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T10:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/31\/siberian-officials-ban-extremist-halloween-parties\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T17:51:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T16:51:40","slug":"siberian-officials-ban-extremist-halloween-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/siberian-officials-ban-extremist-halloween-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Siberian officials ban &#8216;extremist&#8217; Halloween parties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Officials in a Siberian region on Wednesday banned Halloween parties from school classrooms, warning that they foster extremism and encourage children to dabble in a &#8220;cult of death&#8221;. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The education ministry of the Omsk region in Siberia sent out a letter telling schools that &#8220;holidays that are propaganda for extremist moods will not be celebrated,&#8221; its website said Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Halloween, a pagan holiday celebrated widely worldwide on 31 October, has become increasingly popular with young Russians who hold fancy-dress parties and go to themed club nights.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Omsk education authority said it reacted after a warning from the regional Parents&#8217; Assembly, a conservative lobby group.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Celebrating Halloween has &#8220;negative consequences&#8221; because of its &#8220;mystical content and propaganda of the cult of death,&#8221; the regional ministry said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Russian Orthodox Church&#8217;s head of public affairs, Vsevolod Chaplin, has also warned against getting drawn into the occult through Hallowe&#8217;en customs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;People only think it&#8217;s a laugh &#8211; harmless and fun. The evil spirits think otherwise,&#8221; he told the RIA Novosti news agency.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in a Siberian region on Wednesday banned Halloween parties from school classrooms, warning that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,21],"tags":[2300,1457,2301,1414,326,2299],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ynews3","tag-extremist","tag-ban","tag-halloween","tag-officials","tag-parties","tag-siberian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3471,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/3471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}