Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, the vice president of the deputy chairman of the Department of External Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, gave the following interview to the newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta: Rossiyskaya Gazeta: More often than not, the situation concerning the Kyiv Pechersk, Pochayiv, and Sviatohirsk Lavras is qualified in Ukraine as “fraught with bloodshed” [because of the violence that could occur if they were attributed to autocephalists]. What is the basis
Archpriest Nikolai Balashov’s interview about the future of the Ukrainian monasteries
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