This morning, my wife showed me this online article (written yesterday evening july 11, 2016) from Dutch newspaper "Trouw":
To me, this seems to be one serious step further, and together with the convention bunker video's it will surely fuel the persecution-syndrome and expectations of the great tribulation even more than it already did!
sidenote: Remember what the WT wrote in 1999's "Daniels prophecy"-book (bold is mine)?
*** dp chap. 16 pp. 280-281 par. 21 The Contending Kings Near Their End ***
With the disbanding of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the king of the north suffered a serious setback. Who will be this king when Daniel 11:44, 45 is fulfilled? Will he be identified with one of the countries that were part of the former Soviet Union? Or will he change identity completely, as he has done a number of times before?
I used google-translate for the Trouw-article for all non-Dutch readers (bold is mine) :
RUSSIA BANS HOME-CHURCHES AND MOST FAITH PROCLAMATION
The new law, adopted in the meantime signed by parliament and Putin bans almost all forms of religious preaching outside the walls of recognized churches.
Below street evangelism, but also includes keeping a service at someone's home. Distributing religious books and -Flyers is also prohibited. Anyone caught can be fined 700 euros. Organizations who violate the law must take into account a sum of up to 14 thousand euros. Exceptions are possible, but only if an organization has applied for a license.
Human rights groups and Christian clubs now raise the alarm. Putin will use the new measure to thwart all the organizations that are not part of the Russian Orthodox Church, they expect. Patriarchate of Moscow and Putin have for years been two peas in a pod: the president gives her a special status and political influence in return for explicit political support for his government.
Human Rights Watch speaks in The Guardian about "an attack on freedom of expression, freedom of conscience and privacy."
The measure is part of a package with a number of far-reaching anti-terrorism measures. Who participates in a "mass disturbance" can be imprisoned for five to ten years. Telephone and internet providers have long to save all data on customer behavior for half a year and help intelligence agencies to decrypt messages online.
Moscow is religious organizations that do not belong for some time close to the Russian Orthodox Church on the skin. Four years ago threw eg high barriers for foreign aid organizations. They have since been regularly a paper to prove that they are bona fide. The authorities tightly control and do sometimes occur. Part of the so-called NGOs that can not resist, it appears from statistics published by the government. Since the introduction of the new rules, the number of NGOs decreased by a third.
This article focusses on religious implications, but in it, there is a link to a recent Guardian article which is primary about the anti-terrorist law:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/26/russia-passes-big-brother-anti-terror-laws