Vladimir Rozanskij

The problem of demolitions and house confiscations is very acute in the country, where many people do not live in normal housing conditions, and has already led to numerous protests, to the point of deliberate fires and self-immolation.

Profound harmony expressed between the Ukrainian president and the pontiff. The invitation to Pope Francis to visit Kiev, but also the Donbass. The appreciation of the Greek Catholics. Today is the fourth anniversary of the meeting in Havana between Francis and Kirill.

Masks and powerful amulets against coronavirus are "blessed" and sold online. Proximity of Patriarch Kirill to the victims of the virus in China. A message to Xi Jinping. Shifts for running water in Simferopol. Daily litanic prayers to ask for rain.

Russian tourists repatriated from China. Their odyssey ends in a Siberian sanatorium. The drop in oil prices. Chinese imports fall; infrastructures (gas and oil pipelines) at risk; losses on payments in yuan. Apocalyptic forecasts and conspiracy theories. Silence on the number of sick people.

The proposal came amid celebrations for the anniversary of the enthronement of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Putin: "all Russian society has benefited” from Kirill's work. Muslims support the patriarch. The Constitution Modification Commissions are working to rewrite the introductory articles.

Putin's proposals to the Constitution approved. Proposed establishment of a new role, the "Supreme Guide", above or in place of the Federal President. Today's Russia is nostalgic for the Tsarist period. All Orthodox bishops are prohibited from attending Chaplin's funeral.

It will be able to host up to 40 thousand faithful and will be dedicated to Sofia Divine -Wisdom. Its construction was commissioned by Fr. Ilja Nozdin, spiritual father of the same patriarch of Moscow Kirill (Gundjaev). It will be financed by some spiritual sons of the starets Sergij Romanov. The church already attracts many Chinese. It is an Orthodox outpost on the outskirts of Asia. It will rise in the area where the family of Tsar Nicholas II was killed. It could become the largest pilgrimage destination in all of Russia.

For the first time, a thesis on Islamic theology is accepted in a state university. The faithful of Muhammad in the country could reach 30% by 2030. Islam and the Orthodox Church will have to share loyalty of believers, in competition but also in agreement with Erdogan's neo-Ottoman Turkey.

Twenty years after he became president, Vladimir Putin is proposing changes to the constitution and the power structure. Patriarch Kirill gives the move his seal of approval. Dmitri Medvedev remains Putin’s deputy, but trades in his cap as prime minister for that of deputy chair of the Security Council. An unknown bureaucrat, Mikhail Mishustin, is appointed prime minister.

During the Christmas liturgies, Church attendence fluctuates between 1 and 3%. This is the lowest figure found in all Christian countries, including secularized France. The government praises the results of Moscow's "Journey into Christmas", but some emphasize its commercial and popular character.

The Orthodox clergyman has been a doctor for decades. One of the first priests to be ordained after the end of Soviet repression, he dedicated his life to the sick and suffering. After two strokes, he travels across Russia today to lecture and look for volunteers to help in children wards at hospitals.

The text approved by the Podgorica Parliament provides for the nationalization of all Church properties. The leaders of the Serbian Orthodox Church have called this law "discriminatory", as it is directed against the "foreign Church" of Serbia. Violence and clashes in the square, the fears of the Moscow Patriarchate for a new autocephalous Church.