After the fall of the communist bloc of nations in Eastern Europe and Asia, Jehovah’s Witnesses were allowed to worship freely in those nations for the first time since World War II. However, after the 1990s several court cases in the Moscow courts banned Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Moscow district.^[23][24]Jehovah’s Witnesses won a favorable verdict in the European Court of Human Rights on June 10, 2010 in the case of Jehovah’s Witnesses of Moscow v Russia.^[25]

On April 20, 2017, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation ruled in favor of a claim from the Ministry of Justice to liquidate the Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia.^[26][27]