Vadim Venediktov
Today we are used to the fact that we have some democracy in our country. From TV screens and in different mass media well-known social and political observers tell us that Russia is a democratic state. Certainly, an authority and source for such kind of remarks and judgments is the last version of the Constitution of the Russian Federation (Article 1, 1), which says: “The Russian Federation – Russia is a democratic federative constitutional state with the republican form of government”.
The Sacred Council of the Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, which took place at the Church of Christ the Saviour in Moscow and St. Sergius’s Laura of the Holy Trinity from October 3 to 8, 2004, addresses the Plenitude of our Church with the words of the Apostle: ’Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord’ (2 Pet. 1:2).
The Moscow Patriarchate hopes that the visit by the Russia’s president to the PRC (People’s Republic of China) will facilitate in China finally giving entry to an iconostasis and church articles for a temple built five years ago.
Fr. George Romanenko
Father George Romanenko is the prior of a church in the village of Borisovo in Moscow region. He is also a well-known children’s psychiatrist. We have met him to discuss the problems of children’s mentality.
On the eve of his first official visit to Russia, scheduled to begin on May 14, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Metropolitan Laurus, granted an exclusive interview to Interfax.
