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I wish every single person in the West would listen to Putin's speech. Obviously, that won't happen so let me summarise as a professional translator for 10+ years. He states, as he has done from the outset, what his intentions and complaints are in the plainest terms possible. Setting aside his brief comments on the recent "referendums", he spends most of his speech discussing the West. His primary complaint isn't NATO expansion, which gets only a cursory mention. The West is greedy and seeks to enslave and colonise other nations, like Russia. The West uses the power of finance and...

The Russian Orthodox Church has restored the Protopresbyter (chief priest) of the Military and Naval Clergy. On June 7th the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church resolved: “…To re-introduce the rank of the Protopresbyter of the military and naval clergy that had existed before 1918. The chairman of the Synodal Department for Interaction with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies, Priest Oleg Ovcharov shall be appointed to the post of Protopresbyter of the Military and Naval Clergy for the period of his duties as the Chairman of the above mentioned department”. This position had originally been introduced in...

The Russian Orthodox Church considers the appointment of Karin Jean-Pierre, representing the lesbian community, as the White House press secretary as a sign of the degradation of American society. "We definitely do not welcome the activities of this community, and I believe that the appointment of representatives of this community to such public positions once again testifies to the moral degradation of society in those countries where this happens," - Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, said on the air of the Russian state TV channel. He said that he does...

On June 30, 2021 the Russian national Olympic team prayed in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior before going to the XXXII Olympic Games, which will be held in the Japanese capital of Tokyo from July 23 to August 8. Photo: Peter Nikolaev/foto.patriarchia.ruA solemn prayer service in the church with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill was led by Metropolitan Mitrophan of Murmansk and Monchegorsk, chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on Physical Culture and Sports, the website Patriarchy.ru reported. Archpriest Andrei Alexeev, the spiritual leader of the Olympic team, rector of the Church of Prince Dmitry Donskoy in North...