Aleksei Solonitsyn
Rating: 9.8|Votes: 17
Services at the Monastery of St. John the Baptist were closely tied to the Eastern Rite, and pilgrims from Russia suggested to Brother Basile more than once that he should become Orthodox. And he thought much about that.
Yuri Pushchaev, Michael Khasminsky
Rating: 9.3|Votes: 15
We talked with Michael Khasminsky, Director of the Center for Crisis Psychology at the Patriarchal Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Moscow, on why fake news about the Church are in high demand among some mass media.
Priest Yaroslav Dragun
Rating: 9.8|Votes: 36
“Don’t worry,” his confessor comforted him. “Do this: at your ordination, when the bishop places his hand on your head with the prayer invoking the Holy Spirit—at that moment ask God for everything you want that is spiritual and beneficial; and believe that it will all come true. Don’t doubt it".
Lolita Naranovich, Xenia Ryabova
Rating: 9.8|Votes: 10
Xenia Ryabova, five times Paralympic dressage champion, was born with cerebral palsy. Xenia has told me the story of her life which, in my opinion, can be regarded as a modern equivalent of “the story of a real man”.
Rating: 9.8|Votes: 21
You wouldn’t suspect that the jovial Orthodox priest who carries the gold chalise with such reverence from behind the iconostasis of “Mother of Unexpected Joy” church was once a drug dealing, rambling hippie and coffee-house owner with his own underground band.