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Russian expert in sect studies Professor Alexander Dvorkin has tagged Falun Gong as an international cult at a forum in Beijing and said all healthy and righteous forces in the world should unite to combat cults.

Cults harm individuals, families, societies and countries like "cancerous cells" in a healthy body, said Dvorkin, president of the Russian Association of Religious and Cultic Studies Centers in an interview with Xinhua after attending a Sino-Russian Forum on sect studies in Beijing on Thursday.

"They would turn individuals into tools of cults, and destroy their families," he said. "Cults make no contribution to the society. But they kept absorbing human resources and wealth from it.

"Like cancerous cells, they obtain nutrition from the healthy body of society until it collapses."

He said that in the case of Falun Gong, the cult's head Li Hongzhi bases its headquarters in New York and the activities of Falun Gong have...

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