10.12.2004 - Saratov’s Radischev State Art Museum opened today an exposition of Orthodox Christian icons
The event is part of celebrations to commemorate Archbishop Pimen, outstanding hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, who was active in the 20th century’s latter half.
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07.12.2004 - The Moscow Monastery of St. Daniel will recover its church bells
St. Daniel’s Monastery used to have eighteen bells, built at various points over a period of two centuries. The largest of its three major bells, weighing about 12 tons, was cast in 1890 at the Finlandsky plant, in Moscow.
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06.12.2004 - Constitutional Court protects Admiral Alexander Kolchak
The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation has issues a ruling that make possible a revision of the decision made by the Military Court of the Trans-Baikal military district in 1999 on refusal to rehabilitate Admiral Alexander Kolchak
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05.12.2004 - Tramp buried instead of Nikolas II, Russia’s last emperor
Remains of the last Russian emperor Nikolas II, which were buried in Peter and Paul Cathedral in St.Petersburg in 1998, do not belong to the Russian Tsar, the president of the center investigating the details of the Romanovs Royal Family’s death, Vadim Viner said on Thursday.
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27.11.2004 - The cross of St. Sophia’s Cathedral in Veliky Novgorod should be kept inside ancient Russian church
Experts decided that the cross of the central dome of St. Sophia’s Cathedral in Veliky Novgorod recently regained from Spain should be kept inside this ancient Russian church, the Novgorod eparchy said on Friday.
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26.11.2004 - Overseas-based religious cults are making huge expenditures to get established in Russia
"There is documentary proof of exorbitant sums spent to help such cults as they are penetrating Russia, and promote whatever home-grown cults who aim to undermine Eastern Christianity as spiritual pillar of the Russian nation," Dr. Kondratyev said to a news conference. It gathered in Moscow today to discuss rehabilitating exotic cult victims.
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22.11.2004 - The 9th Russian Orthodoxy on Television and Radio festival will open in Voronezh
The festival focuses on significant events in the life of the Russian Christians and the history of the Russian Orthodox Church such as the 250th anniversary of the birth of St. Seraphim of Sarov and the return of the Our Lady of Tikhvin and of Our Lady of Kazan icons to Russia.
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22.11.2004 - The Russian Orthodox Church marks on November 21 a great feast - The Synaxis of St. Michael the Archangel
In line with the Church’s doctrine, this feast was established early in the fourth century at the Local Council of Laodicea, which took place several years before the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. The council condemned the heretical worshipping of Angels as the creators and rulers of the world and confirmed their Orthodox veneration.
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19.11.2004 - Lessons on religion to become compulsory at Russian schools
Moscow authorities offended Russia’s leading confession when substituted lessons in Orthodox culture with lessons in the history of world religions
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18.11.2004 - Patriarch Alexy II, Vatican delegation discuss cultural ties
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II and Paul Poupard, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, met on Wednesday to discuss prospects of cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Vatican, sources from the Moscow Patriarchate told Itar-Tass.
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