Vsevolod Chaplin

Russian Church official attacks Stalin but says Soviet history is not all bad

March 4, 2013 Featured News

4/3/12 A top Russian Orthodox cleric has praised the Russian people for disrupting Stalin’s plan to change the historical course of Russia, but at the same time called for not all Soviet history to be painted black. “I doubt that Stalin wanted Russia to return to its roots, he sincerely lived by the ideals of [...]

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Church Seeks to Restrict Access to Solovki

February 2, 2013 Featured News

Roland Oliphant - 2/2/13 Access to the Solovetsky islands, home to one of Russia’s most  important monasteries, could be restricted in a bid to preserve  the archipelago’s “special way of life,” a top ranking clergyman  said. Russian Orthodox Church spokesman Vsevolod Chaplin said Thursday that  the Solovetsky islands in the White Sea and the Valaam islands  [...]

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Russia should not copy Western democracy, Eastern caliphate – Russian Orthodox Church

December 15, 2012 Featured News

Stavropol, December 12, Interfax – Russia will not copy foreign political models, no matter if it is Western democracy or a world caliphate, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, the head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations, said. “I hope that the history of Russian statehood and Russian pubic processes, especially those that occurred in [...]

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Attacks on Christian, Muslim holy places raise issue of moral limits of freedom – Russian Church

September 24, 2012 News

Moscow, September 20, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church has reminded people who start religious conflicts and riots that freedom of expression should have clear moral limits. “I personally think that the continuing actions in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the appearance of a film insulting the founder of Islam, the attacks on U.S. [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church Spokesman Slams Abortions

July 2, 2012 News

2/7/2012 Russian Orthodox Church spokesman Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin has sharply criticized abortions, comparing them to Holocaust, and has said he hopes Russians will consider them unacceptable. “Abortions are the most terrible Holocaust in humanity’s life,” said Chaplin, who led a rally and a prayer against abortions and homosexual propaganda in downtown Moscow’s Gogolevsky Boulevard on [...]

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Priest insists on dominant role for Orthodox Church in Russian society

May 18, 2012 News

Moscow, May 17, Interfax – A senior priest insisted on Thursday that the Russian Orthodox Church take up the dominant role in Russian society and accused Western Christians of a “deal with evil.” “The Church is only just beginning to move toward a full-scale role in public life. It cannot be a role that is [...]

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Church calls on believers to unite for country’s revival

May 8, 2012 News

Moscow, May 4, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church has urged believers not to cede to pressure and actively participate in the country’s life. “We need a peaceful army of Orthodox Christians – a spiritual, cultural, informative, political army, not sword-wielding, not frightening anyone, but showing the wise, good, unbending, strong-willed force of our people [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church criticizes dissemination of opposition leaflets in Christ the Savior Cathedral

May 3, 2012 News

Moscow, May 2, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church considers the dissemination of leaflets on a church territory inappropriate and calls for respecting the sanctity of the place. It was reported earlier that unidentified people had thrown out leaflets on the territory of Christ the Savior Cathedral, calling on parishioners to join a protest rally [...]

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Russia: Orthodox Church Wants Lenin Inspected For Extremism

April 1, 2012 Featured News

31/3/2012 The Russian Orthodox Church has come up with an initiative to check the works of the founding fathers of bolshevism for extremism. “We have to discuss whether the works of Lenin, Trotsky and other Bolshevik leaders can be considered extremist,” says Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, Head of Church External Relations. “How should we treat them [...]

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People’s choice of Putin is wise – Russian Orthodox Church

March 6, 2012 News

Moscow, March 5, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate supports the choice the majority of Russians made in favor of Vladimir Putin in the March 4 election. “The choice of the majority of people is obvious; this is a display of wisdom, seriousness and true care for the country and one’s near. Our people are not [...]

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Orthodox Church calls for punishing performers, organizers of stunt at Christ the Savior Cathedral

March 3, 2012 News

Moscow, March 1, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church believes all those connected with a recent extravagant performance at the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow should be identified and strictly punished. “It is difficult to say what motives those girls were guided by. But this needs to be found out. I think all the [...]

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Condoms and cigarettes sent to the Moscow Seminary as humanitarian help

February 17, 2012 News

Moscow, February 17, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate official one more time assuaged rumors that the Church sold tobacco and vodka in 1990s. “No vodka was sold. There was a humanitarian help, sometimes it came in form of wine and cigarettes. It was transferred to secular organizations. Secular organizations did with it whatever they wanted [...]

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Russian Church will support neither side in political struggle

January 29, 2012 Featured News

25/1/2012 Russian Church will support neither side in political struggle Moscow, January 25, Interfax – Attempts to force the Church to side with any particular political force will yield no result, the Moscow Patriarchate said. “We need to think a thousand times before replying, whether spontaneously or emotionally and vehemently, to any call of this [...]

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Church urges to give clear answer to accuses of falsifying State Duma elections

December 28, 2011 News

Moscow, December 28, Interfax – People who doubt results of the parliamentary elections in Russia should get an answer, the Moscow Patriarchate official believes. “It is very important that all accusations of dishonest votes counting, of violations in arranging elections receive a proper answer. They shouldn’t stay hanging,” head of the Synodal Department for Church [...]

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Church official hopes new people in the State Duma will revive parliamentary processes

December 23, 2011 News

Moscow, December 22, Interfax – New political disposition in Russian State Duma proves viability of Russian authorities, the Moscow Patriarchate official believes. “It’s evident that the State Duma is tuned to constructive work, there are many mature politicians in it, I know them very well and with some of them we have twenty years experience [...]

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Church urges not to allow new revolution in Russia

December 13, 2011 Featured News

Moscow, December 12, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church urges not to allow civil confrontations in Russia as the part of society is not conformed with results of votes counting at the parliamentary elections. “We can’t but express satisfaction that rallies in Russian cities are generally peaceful, in frames of law. No matter how political [...]

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Russian Church: Medvedev-Putin agreement instance of “kindness and integrity”

September 26, 2011 News

Moscow, September 26, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church hailed President Dmitry Medvedev’s proposal on Saturday that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin run for president as an instance of “kindness and integrity”. “When else has it happened in Russian history that supreme power in the country was handed over in such a peaceful, dignified, honest, friendly [...]

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Cupolas and crosses crown churches of the Solovki Monastery at 500 ruble Banknote

September 17, 2011 News

Moscow, September 15, Interfax – Depiction of Orthodox crosses appeared on a new 500 ruble banknote issued on September 6. Official website of the Bank of Russia represents a drawing of the new banknote, on its backside crosses crown churches of the Solovki Monastery. The previous banknote depicted the monastery in its “Soviet” variant without [...]

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Okhlobystin’s bid for presidency opposed by Church

September 6, 2011 News
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Interfax-Ukraine 5/9/2011 Moscow, September 5 (Interfax) – Ivan Olkhlobystin’s plans to nominate himself for president in the 2012 polls have failed to win support from the Russian Orthodox Church. “Both the Basis Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church and one of the documents passed by the 2011 Archbishop Council say that clerics cannot nominate [...]

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Church condemns murder of Dagestan Academic

June 10, 2011 News

Moscow, June 9, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church credited the Russian Muslim community with having always followed a “path of peace, creation and fraternal cooperation with other peoples and religions of Russia” and called for public efforts to “help the Russian Islamic ummah” reject Islamist extremism. Head of the Synodal Department for Church and [...]

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Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin proposes to pack anonymous members of Internet community into a special dangerous Zone

May 24, 2011 News

Moscow, May 18, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate believes anonymity in Internet may create a threat to society. “I am opposed to anonymity in Internet; I think an individual communicating with others should not conceal his or her name, just as we never cover our faces while talking to other people. If an individual wears [...]

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Archbishop Vsevolod Chaplin: Russia is the best part of today’s Europe

April 9, 2011 News

Moscow, April 8, Interfax – Head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin said that today’s Russia was the best past of Europe. “We are a part of Europe, we are the best part of Europe and we offer the future, the best future,” he said in an interview to [...]

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Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin calls to give Russians a chance to influence and govern Policy

February 24, 2011 News

Moscow, February 21, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate calls to give Russian people a chance to independently shape its future. “Russians indeed should be given a chance to spread their wings, to perform the mission which they want to perform in their country and across the world and remove the impediments which prevent common people [...]

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19th International Educational Christmas Readings begin in Moscow

January 27, 2011 Featured News

24.01.2011 The 19th International Educational Christmas Readings were opened in a solemn ceremony on January 24, 2011, at the State Kremlin Palace. This year the forum is devoted to the theme ‘Church and State: Cooperation in Tackling Common Tasks’. The opening ceremony was led by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. Sitting [...]

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Western missionaries didn’t dig in Russia in the early 1990s thanks to Metropolitan Kirill – Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin

January 27, 2009 News

Moscow, January 27, Interfax – In many respects, it was acting Locum Tenens Metropolitan Kirill, who prevented attempts of Western missionaries to gain control over Russian people in the early 1990s.”Metropolitan Kirill very firmly, emotionally and toughly talked with all these Western people, both state and religious figures. Then we made many of them …

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