About 20 years ago, the Russian State started a major operation to take control of Orthodox parishes throughout Europe. Some of them are, in time, broken connections with Moscow Patriarchate. They are now the subject of legal cases to cut the Russian Federation against local associations created to launch these expatriate churches during the Soviet era. In April, the Court in the French city has ruled that the church and historical cemetery rightly belonged to Russia, not to local cultural association. For some of its parishionals, we see the French judicial system from the country that leads war against Ukraine was difficult to accept. The offspring of the Russian emperor, on the other hand, welcome this decision. France 24s Elena Wholochine reports.
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