![]() ![]() ![]() The influence of the Russian Orthodox church has grown significantly under President Vladimir Putin.Īfter the bank removed the note, the Russian Orthodox church welcomed the decision as “very correct”. “Currently a decision was taken to stop the production of the notes,” the central bank said in a rare U-turn on Wednesday. The celebrity priest, who has 174,000 followers on the app, said “there was no difference what the building looks like in real life” as most Russians do not know its history. Pavel Ostrovsky, a priest, said on Telegram that the bill was either the result of “the stupidity of the designers” or a “deliberate provocation” by the “followers of Islam” in Tatarstan. The building now serves as a state museum.īut the lack of the cross quickly drew the ire of Orthodox clerics. The 17th-century church’s cross was removed by Bolsheviks after the 1917 revolution. Both are inside the Kazan Kremlin, in Tatarstan’s capital.
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