Russia’s central bank has halted the circulation of a new 1,000 ruble note after Orthodox priests complained that the image of a church dome lacked a cross – even though it does not have one in real life.
One of them featured two religious sites in the majority-Muslim Tatarstan republic: a minaret with an Islamic crescent moon and an Orthodox church with a dome that did not have a cross on it.
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 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.
Its spokesperson, Vladimir Legoyda, said the Orthodox cross “personifies the religious and cultural identity of the majority of our citizens [and] is a natural part of the state symbols of our country”.
During a prayer service in Moscow’s main cathedral Wednesday, Kirill praised Russia’s nuclear weapons, which he said were created “under the protection” of a saint.
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Russia’s central bank has halted the circulation of a new 1,000 ruble note after Orthodox priests complained that the image of a church dome lacked a cross – even though it does not have one in real life.
One of them featured two religious sites in the majority-Muslim Tatarstan republic: a minaret with an Islamic crescent moon and an Orthodox church with a dome that did not have a cross on it.
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 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.
Its spokesperson, Vladimir Legoyda, said the Orthodox cross “personifies the religious and cultural identity of the majority of our citizens [and] is a natural part of the state symbols of our country”.
During a prayer service in Moscow’s main cathedral Wednesday, Kirill praised Russia’s nuclear weapons, which he said were created “under the protection” of a saint.
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