(AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) Russia's Supreme Court Judge Yuri Ivanenko reads the decision in a courtroom in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, April 20, 2017. Russia's Supreme Court has banned the Jehovah's Witnesses from operating in the country, accepting a request from the justice ministry that the religious organization be considered an extremist group, ordering closure of the group's Russia headquarters and its 395 local chapters, as well as the seizure of its property.