Vladimir Rozanskij

Conflict between Moscow and Constantinople on the future of orthodoxy in Ukraine creates a myriad of difficulties. Whatever the solution, the image and the composition of Orthodoxy will be profoundly modified.

The Russian Orthodox churches in Europe are left free to join Russian Orthodoxy, after the tensions between Moscow and Constantinople linked to Ukrainian autocephaly. The Russian Churches in Europe were formed in the first decades of the 20th century, around the Russian exiles of the Revolution. They gathered great personalities like Berdjaev, Bulgakov, Losskij. The best known Russian theologians of the 1900, such as Florovskij, Afanasev, Schmemann, Evdokimov, Clement worked at the Institute of Orthodox Theology "St. Sergius" in Paris.

The second most important cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church visits the Far East. In Beijing he cited the 222 Chinese martyrs killed during the Boxer Uprising (1900). In Pyongyang he gave a gift to Kim Jong-un from Patriarch Kirill. Russia’s Church and diplomats work together abroad.

Demonstrations at the Russian embassy in Kiev; burned a diplomatic car. Emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. The Russians talking about "trespassing" of Ukrainian ships in Russian territorial waters; but the UN countries do not recognize the Russian occupation of Crimea.

Shinzo Abe seems to want to extend a hand to Vladimir Putin over the islands, a decades long dispute between Russia and Japan. But accord is far broader: Tokyo could get to review the historic military agreement with the United States. Internal opposition weighs on both leaders.

The Russian faithful in Turkey no longer have churches where to go to pray because there are only churches of the "schismatic patriarchate". In Ukraine, the Tomos of autocephaly is expected by the end of November. The Ukrainian president backs Simeon as the new patriarch.

The president of the city-state, Halimah Yakob, President Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov participated in the laying of the first stone. "Humanitarian" and economic relations. Putin intends to propose a free trade zone between Singapore and the Eurasian Economic Union. The ASEAN meeting.

The Collective Security Treaty Organization includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. Ukraine left last May. No agreement on the new secretary: vote postponed to December, in St. Petersburg. The Kazakhstani space projects.

It is an open battle between Rawil Gaynetdin, head of the Mufti Council, and Kamil Samigullin, Tatar Mufti of Kazan. For the former there is no persecution of Uighurs in China; the latter accuses him of acting as a sounding board for the Chinese government. Divisions also on the verification of halal food and on relations with foreign Muslim communities.

The collaboration was decided in order to create an independent Orthodox Church in Ukraine. The patriarch of Constantinople will compile the Tomos of autocephaly and deliver it to the primate elected by a local synod. Importance of the Constantinople primacy on the Orthodox Churches reiterated. The reactions of Moscow.

In Moscow, 1000 people gathered in front of the Lubianka. Demonstrations also in St. Petersburg, Penza, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov. Their children are considered dangerous for the state security, accused of "terrorism". Alongside ordinary citizens, famous dissidents, actors, writers and artists. Everyone is afraid of a return to the Stalinist controls.

The breaking of the communion between the two patriarchates led to the closing of pilgrimages to Mount Athos by Russian pilgrims. The "Society of Russian Athos", which also includes Putin, had donated up to 500 million dollars so far. Poroshenko prepares to transfer the jurisdiction of the Caves of the monks Antonij and Feodosij in Kiev to Istanbul.