Archpriest Nikolai Balashov’s interview about the future of the Ukrainian monasteries
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