Tag: vsevolod chaplin

Chaplin Calls for Organizing Death Squads to Destroy ‘Traitor-Emigres’

March 11, 2017

Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, former head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for relations between church and society, has called for the creation of special death squads to hunt down and destroy emigres perceived as traitors to Russia.

A Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 14

December 12, 2015

Staunton, December 11, 2015 The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in detail but which are too […]

Moscow Preparing To Ban Any Film Which Threatens Russia’s ‘National Unity’

January 16, 2015

Staunton, January 15 – The Russian ministry of culture has prepared a draft decree that would ban the showing of any film that its officials viewed as denigrating the country’s national culture, threatening its national unity and undermining the foundations of the constitutional system. The decree was supposed to enter into force today, but news […]