Vladimir Rozanskij

Memorial Day of Victims of Political Repression marked yesterday. It is estimated that at least 20 million people were sentenced to detention, without counting prisoners, prisoners of war, and interns in psychiatric hospitals. A bronze barrier with the word "Remember" in 22 languages ​​and with stones from the detention sites of the whole country. Controversy on a monument to Solzhenitsyn.

The film depicts the love affair between Tsar Nicola II and a ballerina. Screenings take place under armed guard. The Interreligious Council: No to coercion, but true culture contains a moral ideal. Patriarch Kirill’s disillusionment: A miracle if religions grow despite television and internet culture. Minister of Culture accused of plagiarism.

Deputy Vladimir Sysoev attempts to introduce confessional elements into legislation. Doubts of the Orthodox Patriarchate. In the past, the USSR considered the family a wreck to abandon. Today in Russia religious marriages are 70% of unions. But as in the past, divorces and abortions are widespread.

The president has not yet announced his candidacy. He could do it in December. Rumours of an alternative plan, that Putin would be ready to appoint his successor: Aleksej Djumin. Meanwhile new governors arrive and there may also be new ministers.

Opposition groups moved and organized even without their leader, Alexsej Naval'nyj, in prison since October 2. Putin - in power for 20 years - has not yet confirmed his candidacy in upcoming presidential vote but it is feared that he will be elected by a large majority for another 6 years. An expiring regime. The strange benevolence of the Moscow police.

The famous icon of the Angel with the Golden Hair will be moved to a chapel used as a museum, accessible only to government officials and their guests. Like in Soviet times, the icons saved from destruction, can be admired by foreign leaders and delegations, not by the faithful.

The new orthodox cathedral consecrated in Tashkent. In Samarcanda, the patriarch visited the tomb of the prophet Daniel, worshiped by Christians and Muslims. In the country there are 2239 religious communities of 16 different confessions, with at least 50 Orthodox churches. Lukashenko proposes a new meeting between Pope Francis and Kirill in Minsk.

The 1997 law asserted the superiority of Orthodoxy, whilst recognising four "traditional religions": Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, and (Protestant and Catholic) Christianity. Other groups could also be recognised if they could prove that they had been active at least 15 years before the law’s adoption. Despite the multitude of sects, now some want a more restrictive law. Jehovah's Witnesses and Scientology have been targeted. Yet many Orthodox oppose changes to the existing law.

The "Foreign Minister" of the Moscow Patriarchate points to the religious crisis of the old continent. With migrations and secularism, Europe is heading towards the total suicide of its identity. The responsibilities of intellectuals. "The present weakening of Christianity in the Western world recalls the situation of the Russian Empire before 1917." In Russia, only 13% declare themselves atheist and non-believers. Unite church efforts.

He is the leader of the organization "Christian State - Holy Russia". He has claimed to have died, gone to hell, and been saved by Jesus Christ in person. He launched a war against the movie "Matilda": burn down the cinemas, "take lives for the faith," impale the director. Behind the apocalyptic patriotism of this "Orthodox Fraternity," there may be “divisive” secret services that want to bring Putin down.

Protests, threats, arson attacks on cinemas screening the film "Matilda", about the affair between the future Tsar and a young ballerina of the imperial theatre. Nationalists decry a patriotic and religious scandal (Tsar Nicholas was canonized in 2000). Reparatory pilgrimages announced. The Orthodox Church suggests banning the projection of the film.

The Russian Orthodox return to the fore in the Joint Commission and focus on uniatism and "Primacy and Communion in the Second Millennium." Metropolitan Ioannis Zizioulas, historian of dialogue, replaced due to age limit. The fruits of the meeting at Cuba between Francis and Kirill and the visit of Card. Parolin to Moscow.