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SERGEY STEPANOV, Baptist (Tambov)
Sergei Stepanov, a journalist and Christian missionary, made the following post on his VK page: “Dear compatriots: our army is conducting full-scale military operations in another country, it is dropping bombs and rockets on the cities of our neighbouring Ukraine. We call on the authorities of our country to stop this senseless bloodshed.” After the […]
Monk HILARION (SHATKOVSKY), ROCOR(A) (village Khokhlovo, Belgorod oblast, Russia)
Monk Hilarion (in the world — Nikolai Shatkovsky), 58 years old, lives in the village of Khokhlovo (Belgorod oblast). He published anti-war statements on social media. In a video, he said that he did not believe the propaganda that calls the West evil. From 15 October 2022, contact with him was lost and he did not […]
Hieromonk NIKANDR (PINCHUK), ROCOR(A) (Verkhoturye, Sverdlovsk Oblast)
On 30 March, the rector of the St Simeon of Verkhoturye parish published a post on the VK social network, which the linguistic assessment deemed to be violating the law on discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In this post, Hieromonk Nikandr characterised the actions of the Russian army as annexationist, which contradicted […]
Hieromonk IOANN (KURMOYAROV), ROCOR(A) (St Petersburg)
Hieromonk Ioann Kurmoyarov was defrocked in the Russian Orthodox Church in 2021 for criticizing the militaristic design of the flagman church of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the appearance of which, according to Kurmoyarov, offends the feelings of believers. In March 2022, he posted on social media a video Who Will Be in Hell And […]
Rev. GLEB KRIVOSHEIN, Russian Orthodox Church (Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia)
Rev. Gleb Krivoshein, a priest of the Righteous Yaroslavl Wonderworkers parish in Kazan, signed the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church’s anti-war appeal in March 2022. Apart of him, the appeal was signed by other 292 other clerics; Krivoshein’s signature was number 51. One of the employees of the FSB in Tatarstan considered this an offence. In […]
ANNA CHAGINA, Russian Orthodox Church (Tomsk, Russia)
Musician Anna Chagina (born November 29, 1979). She spoke out against the war in Ukraine on her social networks. On 6 March 2022 she participated in an anti-war demonstration at Novo-Sobornaya Square with a banner «Blessed are the peacemakers (Matthew 5:9)» and was detained. On 12 March 2022 she was fined 45,000 Russian roubles by Tomsk’s Soviet […]
MAKSIM KALININ, Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow, Russia)
Theologian, linguist, and researcher of the Mesopotamian Christian mystical tradition, life and works of East Syrian mystics. He spoke out against the war with Ukraine in his social networks; called for peace and peacemaking, and criticized church-state relations and support for authoritarian and dictatorial regimes – in his lectures and public speeches. On 16 December 2022, […]
VITALY GORIACHIKH, Russian Orthodox Church (Chita, Russia)
Vitaly Goryachikh, an activist and Orthodox believer from Chita, went out on a solo picket on 28 July 2022, with a banner “I will not fear evil” (Ps 22:4). He explained in an interview with Sibir.Realii that the choice of this phrase related to his faith: «I am a believer, I did not select this quote by chance. […]
GRIGORY SHEYANOV (Moscow, Russia)
On 21 September 2022, the day of the announcement of mobilization in Russia, an Orthodox publicist and paediatrician, Grigory Sheyanov, performed a one-person picket in Moscow. He stood with a piece of paper with a quote from the appeal of Metropolitan Philip of Moscow to the tyrant Ivan the Terrible: «… and behind the altar, innocent Christian […]
ALEXANDER IVANOV, Russian Orthodox Church (Kaluga, Russia)
A programmer and creator of the Christian online encyclopedia Drevo. On 25 February, a banner ‘No to war!’ appeared on the Drevo website; it was hyperlinked to the editors’ statement signed by Ivanov which criticized Russian aggression against Ukraine and the silence of the Russian Orthodox Church hierarchy. An unknown woman sent a denunciation the Moscow […]