Oh, I agree. Kind of nice to have a quote from the Russian Patriarch repudiating it all, though. Any false witnesses who attempt to smear the Orthodox with this will be quickly revealed!
"Viktor Malukhin, the church's chief spokesman, said that if Ivan the Terrible ? Russia's first tsar, formally known as Ivan IV Vasiljevich ? were canonized, it would automatically mean that his many victims, including Moscow's Metropolitan Philip, the prelate of the time, would be de-canonized."" 'You cannot give glory at the same time to martyrs and their persecutors. This goes against God's laws and human law,' Mr. Malukhin said."
That settles it for me.
Yes, there are some folks who come here and CLAIM to be Orthodox and then, help to bash the Church. I have seen this over and over again.
Those same folks never miss a chance to SIDE WITH so-called "evangelicals" or "religion invaders" of Russia against The Russian Church. AMAZING, huh?