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March 16, 2017 – The parliament members of the Republic of Karelia decided to overlook a previous decision of granting the “Winter Hotel” building to the Valaam Monastery. The building was granted to the monastery in 2006; however, the deputies put in question that the land transfer is violating the rights of citizens. They claim it is “not valid, false”. […]

March 15, 2017 – A local city council member closes a criminal investigation involving the demolition of an Orthodox Cross in Tatarstan, Russia. He claimed “a lack of criminal base”. It became known that on March 13, 2017 that the case was preemptively closed as far back as January 23, 2017. It involved an Orthodox Cross in the village of […]

March 14, 2017 – A criminal investigation under category “vandalism” is opened because of an attack on the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, located in central Volgograd. The clergy is certain that the attempt to destroy the cross is a part of a chain of attacks on Orthodox sites in the city. On the night of Tuesday, March 14, […]

March 2, 2017 – Teenagers in Yekaterinburg have stolen the priestly robes and made photos at the Church-on-Blood built in the place of the tsar family execution, as reports interfax. Head of press service of the chief administration of the Russian Ministry of Interior for the Sverdlovsk Region Valery Gorelykh confirmed the fact of the incident to Interfax. Resuming results […]

March 1, 2017 – The police have apprehended a man in Voronezh (Russia), who lit a fire in front of an Orthodox Cathedral in the center of the city. According to the available information, the man drove up to the Cathedral entrance in his automobile. He then lit several pieces of coal a few meters away. He then broke the  […]