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July 20, 2016. A 57-year-old Pyotr Kuznetsov said that he didn’t like the look of the Orthodox monument, as Life news reports. The Investigation Department of the Investigation Committee in Tatarstan opened criminal proceedings against the deputy Pyotr Kuznetsov, who cut down the worship cross in the village Tashkirmen Laishevo region. A 57 – year-old man is accused of vandalism. […]

July 7, 2016 hegumen Daniel (Sokolov), Father Superior of St. Trinity Danilov Monastery in Pereslavl, was killed in his cell, as reports pravoslavie.ru. As reported by TASS with reference to the press service of Pereslavl eparchy, “the body of the monastery prior Daniel (Sokolov) was found after the morning service in his cell. St. Trinity Danilov monastery is small in […]

June 15, 2016. A terrorist act was averted in the largest men’s monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church with several centuries of history—the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, as reports pravoslavie.ru. As learned from a source in the Federal Security Service [FSB], on June 14 in several cafes in the Pushkin region of Podmoskovye were found homemade explosive devices and schemes and […]

May 1, 2016. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia is calling upon the Ukrainian authorities not to attempt to reform the field of religion for political reasons, as Interfax reports. “We have to remind all the authorities (in Ukraine) that the religious beliefs of people and the life of the Church are sacred and shouldn’t be reformed […]

March 29, 2016. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill speaking before the Moscow State Duma deputies, urged them not to justify the utilitarian preservation of names of city objects which perpetuate the memory of murderers and terrorists, as the website pravoslavie reports. The primate of the Russian Orthodox Church noted “I do not encourage the demolition of monuments and […]