“Termination of a human life can no longer be a collective sin of the Russian society, jointly paid for by all taxpayers. A person intending to commit such an act must not expect any material support from fellow citizens,” the statement of the World Russian People’s Council, received on Wednesday by Interfax-Religion, reads.
In 2014 the Russian Federation’s President Vladimir Putin proposed to examine a possibility of restoration of the Chudov Monastery and the Ascension Convent that was blown up in 1929-1930.
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One of the most tragic pages in the history of the Russian diaspora was marked by a solemn panikhida held on Monday, June 1, 2015, at St John the Baptist Cathedral in Washington, DC. The tens of thousands of Cossacks who were repatriated by the Western powers to the USSR in 1945 were honored.
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The cleric spent the final years of his life in Shanghai. By the 2010s he became the oldest clergyman and the only priest of the Chinese Orthodox Church—a Chinese by origin.
Through police officers, the Jews demanded that incense not be burned nor candles lit, and that there be no crosses. Such demands are being made for the first time.