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