From Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Kaliningrad, in regional capitals and small towns, hundreds of thousands of Russians—entire families spanning several generations—took to the streets to march in festive processions under the common slogan “Russia—a Family of Families.”
Churches in Russia have traditionally been built for bad weather. They tend to be of brick and stucco, with high ceilings and a very high insulation rating.
Russian Federation Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov had earlier filed a lawsuit seeking to recognize the organization, “International Satanist Movement,” as extremist and to ban it in Russia.
The raid on the canonical Orthodox Holy Spirit Cathedral in Chernovitsi, Bukovina province of Ukraine has become known around the world, shocking even non-Orthodox U.S. politicians.
With the blessing of Bishop Stefan of Remezijana, rector of the Representation Church of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Moscow, an Akathist to our holy and God-bearing father Basil, Metropolitan of Ostrog and Wonderworker has been published in Church Slavonic for the Russian faithful.