hoff started a big all-russian olympic day, the main part of which was held on krestovsky island in honor of such an event, more than 50 titled olympians came to st. petersburg. and today. i congratulate you on the record of olympic champions who are simultaneously on the main site of the olympic flame. a holiday of youth of health and optimism. i would say that it is very nice when many young uh people join this healthy lifestyle. and there is a very good opportunity to try yourself. eh, in various forms. here uh, federations of different sports are represented and young people can try themselves. therefore, it cannot cause any negative emotions. only positive ones, so i just don't know even though every sunday is like this. the russian olympic day in st. petersburg is a beautiful eventful sports festival, which first of all stands out for its mass character hundreds at first glance in total, even

thousands of sports and physical education lovers who gathered at the most suitable point of the northern capital near the gas promarena, someone ran 400 m, some 200, some were able to master the distance of 5 km. evgeny chekunova, who recently set a world record in swimming. still, i didn't risk it. if i had dressed a little differently, i would actually run, but 200 m . eventually. i would like to note that the olympic day is being celebrated in all corners of our country. a and c. of course, we're expecting , uh, a superior figure. than more than a million with uh, participants. for us, this is the norm, because in general, in principle, in our country they have a very good attitude towards physical culture and sports. well, and most importantly, a large number of people of our citizens share the ideals of olympism next to the stadium on the square.

because it is a large-scale expo zone of all-russian sports federations, and at each of them anyone could try their hand at various sports and take part in master classes organized by the winners of european and world championships, as well as olympic medalists . even for example in the japanese variety and quido archery. this is shooting, which is aimed at showing the beauty of the bow and the beauty of shooting, not only hitting us, but in general our e -discipline is developing as a sports discipline and we take part and hold russian championships and the championship of e, different regions and cities. danil makhalin, alexander makridin march message, st. petersburg, and then watch the church program and ekaterina gracheva and i. get

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forever superstar of nine eight percent. apply online or allocate and benefit every day. hello in the studio, ekaterina gracheva, this is our weekly church program and we are on the russia 24 channel every week with the latest news. we are discussing on the air with representatives of the church. and today the metropolitan, patriarchal games in africa, is my guest. klinsky leonid hello vladyka good afternoon ekaterina i am glad to greet you. we of course, we will also talk about africa traditionally, uh, but let's start with such, uh , fresh diplomatic news from the church, which has a direct bearing on the international relations of the russian orthodox church now with the catholics. here is the pope's envoy to resolve the conflict in ukraine , cardinal mateo zufe, received

consent, and he had previously visited the kremlin to come to moscow, kiev was in bucha. what do you expect from this visit and what, in your opinion, is the true purpose of the holy see? for this, the initiative of the prism to moscow, as far as i read with e. messages, as far as the press secretary of the president informed that for a long time there had been no consent before. well, as i understand it, we still sometime wait e cardinals. uh, i would like, first of all, to be taken to the donbass to the alley where hundreds of murdered children are buried, but he was in the bucha, he saw what was happening there, but unlike the staged bucha. all the children killed by the coronazi regime are real and that's it before starting any negotiations. he must also see this place as a christian. i think i should

to understand all the horror that has been in the east of ukraine for eight years, and then it will be necessary to listen to it, as for some expectations, i will personally share my subjective opinion. nothing is expected from this, because the policy of the vatican has not changed over the centuries. we can remember now the days of ronald reagan. and his security adviser, richard allen , who characterized relations with the vatican with the following phrase of the best. between the holy thrones not before him, nor after him, nor during the policy of the vatican regarding orthodox church and russia it seems to me that this person has not changed. there are numerous works. on this score. there is

an understanding. here i would like to focus our listeners on a certain very interesting point, because both our russian statehood and the russian orthodox church, yes, and we are all people, uh, believers and with trust, uh, we value all relationships. and here we need to remember the iron chancellor, probably, here he is, who says that politics is the art of the possible. let politicians meet and let them discuss something and somehow. but we must understand that any hostilities end in peace. but the world is also different. there are winners, but there are losers. and now, returning to what i said a little higher, as soon as in 2001, the visit of pope john paul ii to ukraine took place since 2002. a terrible expansion has begun throughout all ukrainian territories, the most terrible, and we

understand that the proxy of the vatican is the greek catholic church. the so-called all that i mean is that e direct and indirect followers and one or another is built ideas. here is the proxy in this case. uh, the vatican is that lead all the action that comes down from the vatican and in 2002 , the most brutal concept went. although at that time the russian orthodox church was headed by patriarch alexei ii, he said that quite recently we heard other things from the lips of the vatican, that the russian right-sanction church is a sister church, we count on long-term good relations, but in this case there is no need to engage in parasitism. there is no need to convert native orthodox people to catholics and in greeks catholics. and if we

project this situation to a later period. when the historic visit in 2016 of patriarch kirill of moscow and all russia to havana took place and there was already a meeting with, uh , pope francis , kind, peace-loving numbers on relations and other things were also signed there, but this was already in february already in june . i mean, uh, general. uh, chairman of the minister of the minister of foreign affairs. i have already arrived on a visit, but ukraine with certain slogans that dad said for ukraine, and one more a wave of expansion into ukraine with an insane monetary contribution. with the cathedrals in kharkov where there was never unianism . that is, the uh ministers of the vatican themselves said

how fabulous funds were invested there, that is, these are a few examples. you understand that they have a basis, and we understand it, i don’t remember, uh, the great patriotic war, when the galicia division, consisting of uh, you understand who i don’t even want to say these bad words from the nazis. finished nazis who the forty-fifth year in 1945 surrendered captivity to the british army many of them us deserved punishment, because with the filing of holy thrones. they were allowed to migrate to canada by the states where they became fierce and continued to hate, uh, russia, to the soviet union and so on. well, here is the outfit of people, including the head of the conference of catholic bishops. the russian archbishoprics believe that this visit, uh zuppy, to moscow can contribute to citing the possibility of resuming dialogue for holding a meeting

already personal between pope francis patriarch, kirill, and, generally speaking, in the light of everything you said, this is a meeting. she is needed at all. it led to something, the last thing we officially know, uh, the chairman of the external church relations department, metropolitan anthony, said, if i'm not mistaken, it was in february of this year, that so far there are no meetings and arrangements for meetings, uh, there is no talk . although earlier such conversations were conducted. well, how can they now? there are, if we assume, uh secretaries. e vatican for christian relations cardinal cours koch calls, uh, the patriarch of moscow a heretic, and then no apology followed. what kind of meetings can there be if, uh, the pontiff allows himself an unflattering expression, uh , addressed to, uh, his holiness the patriarch, a decent conversation, and we do not receive any official

apology on this issue. even the studio is uncomfortable for me to repeat to our viewers what was said. yes, we are told that through some sort of uh secret channels an apologetic address was sent, but sorry , uh, the insult was inflicted publicly. so publicly had to follow. uh, apologies. we did not hear them, but here you are talking with the antonyms of the heads of the department of external church relations. unfortunately, only twice the studio was often on the road. how is he in this position? now in these difficult times. i often communicate with him. i believe that the decantons are doing everything possible to uh bring in, uh, some work, but we understand that one way or another, vladyka anthony fulfills those instructions that u come from uh, the office of his hierarchs, who also supervise its a gimmick so here uh question

very subtle, i have no right to give, uh, an assessment that is not professional, not even personal, because we are talking to a wide audience anton, difficult obedience. ah, how he copes with him , the holy synod, the russian orthodox church and his holiness the patriarch should evaluate me, but we are in such a historical section now that uh, very , uh, thin line. m-m of relations between peasants. uh, inter-orthodox uh are under the most severe, right? both from the west as a collective west and from other e-geopolitical players, who see in russia and in the russian orthodox church, er, enemies and try to demonize them in every way, we can trace this in church relations as well. we see this in cultural relations. this is what we see, uh, in sports. we see this

everywhere. but how do we testify? eh, it doesn't work. nothing is impossible to cancel this russian culture, it is impossible to cancel russian hockey, which has always been included. uh, in the top three of the greatest. uh, the sporting events of the world. i was now looking out of the corner of my eye at what was happening in the baltic states. well, i don’t know, it’s the game for the championship in the bath was, you know, that is, it’s generally about nothing without the russians there is no full-fledged presence. you want to reset, in general, some criteria, sporting achievements, and so on and so forth. i think that everything will be back to normal, but it will take time. let's talk about your part of our parishes in africa, you were in uganda not so long ago. but from the moment we last met, they met euro-lavue with you. uh, how much expanded, then the number of expanded our parishes has increased in africa and well

our influence has grown as far as this time increases the caravans. uh increases the direction of the dogs stay the same and they multiply and they become angry. that is, we are expanding the entire geography at the moment. this is 22 countries at the moment. that's over 200 clerics. this is an increase in e-e social humanitarian educational programs. we are in close cooperation with the ministry of education with the ministry of education with the ministry of health from abroad. uh, our society, which is headed by evgenia primakov naturally c ministry of foreign affairs. uh, we are developing the most powerful programs in africa at the moment, which are already beginning to be implemented in many countries. and, of course, it must be said, uh, that we are on the direct uh, the second july international russia and africa, in which we hope, uh,

his holiness patriarch of moscow and all russia will also take part, because this will be a unique opportunity to convey the position russian orthodox church to many, uh, leaders of presidents, uh, countries of africa who will personally be present in st. this forum in july and what failed, er, the pope on his brief visit to several african countries. i think the brilliant patriarch of moscow all russia will succeed. because his african flock loves to honor very much, they thank him for what he does there, and with the hands of their zarhat for his competent management, and we believe that at the moment we really manage to implement many positions , with regard to uganda directly indicated to you, and there the process is personally supervised by the president of ganda. he is a very conservative person. we i don't know each other personally more than once. we met and at the moment we have been allocated one of

the large plots in uganda. where as i have repeatedly said to your colleagues will be. the administrative and spiritual center of the russian orthodox church, the hospital , the school, and other buildings have also been built, which, according to joint agreements between his holiness the patriarch and the president, and uganda will be implemented. uh, we see good development prospects there. who, if so, can use this word, the main competitors on the african continent in russian orthodox church. uh, we have no competitors uh, speaking in worldly terms, uh, we entered the canonical desert , after the patriarch of alexandria supported, uh, the patriarchs, bartholomew of constantinople, they became schismatics for us, and therefore, uh, we are also calmly dealing with you let's make our own. lots of things to fix as well. er, with many questions. we encounter and start

working from scratch a lot of e pseudo-christian communities that considered themselves christian ask us to join them work and explain really. what is orthodox teaching? we do it non-stop missionary groups changing one another working on the continent. hey i'm talking about prospects. here we have some very good ones. eh, greeks, how can the alexandrian greeks, how can they put us in? spoke in the wheel, but i'm saying this again, it's nothing more than, uh, uh, dogs that run after the caravan and try to do something there for our activity. it has absolutely no effect . uh, because africans finally saw us as friends of those friends as they saw during the soviet union and then for many decades. unfortunately, the activity of both the soviet union so most likely russia and the russian orthodox church was not somewhat limited, but eventually. we have come to

the conclusion, i am now talking about the russian orthodox church, that we will no longer delegate our powers to anyone. we will develop the contingent ourselves. we will invest in educational processes ourselves. and how well you and i understand ekaterina, if we now educate, uh, youth, and we educate. now the academic year is over now, and 11 students in st. petersburg will go on a full four-year course beyond theological education. the students are now studying at the moscow pedagogical state university, and the other day we celebrated the day of the russian language. and pushkin they perfectly read pushkin and our father in verse and, uh, another poem, that is, people begin to absorb our culture. uh, our uh, the good news of christ just as it was in its time, passed it on to us and we are very glad that we have such an opportunity to pass it on to our brothers , namely brothers and friends.

this is how they see us, because the russian orthodox church , like in the russian statehood, has never been engaged in neo-calinalism in the e, african direction, and in conclusion , i would like to know some kind of parallel to draw between the events in ukraine and what is happening on the territory of the former e for spectators who do not know. i didn't know that either. you were in the ninety-eighth year as part of the e of the russian separate brigade of the airborne forces of the contingent of peacekeeping forces, he is in bosnia and herzegovina. now we know that another aggravation of power is taking place on the territory of kosovo and the former ugaslav, kosovo has said, what do they want? uh, there was a strong nato contingent there. ah, what is your forecast, because we can now observe in these territories in the near future and do you see any uh historical uh parallels with what is happening in ukraine and this far-fetched taxes your question is absolutely in the top ten and this

undoubtedly very heavy legacy very heavy legacy i remember the ninety-eighth ninety-ninth years. i remember my stay. there i was in the position of a military priest to our brigade. and i had to do many things and support the serbs and interact with those priests who went to the rear, uh, and uh, into the forests in order to continue serving my people and not fall under this hell with aggression. hmm, you know everything. the resentment is that pandora's box was opened that's when. that's when you need to it was the americans who, outside the resolution , carried out barbaric bombardments and dismembered the flourishing european, orthodox power that is now happening at the junction. uh, kosovo serbia is just another pandora's box in a

pandora's box, only of lesser significance. and he, uh, god forbid, i don’t want to be a bad prophet, but he may have entailed another thousand or tens and hundreds of thousands of victims. unfortunately, our world is arranged. uh, it’s unfair and no one has canceled the rights of the strong there, and freedom is often obtained, only, uh, with blood, serbs they fought courageously then, but under the onslaught of a-a, superior forces of the opponent, they did what russia could. unfortunately, at that time , they could not help our fraternal serbian people in any way. hmm well, what now we hear from the president of serbia again such yesterday i heard him interview. he said that he would u build up military relations with uh. um, representatives of the united states of america, what do you call it? i don't know, but i know that serbian people are simple people, they don't support or approve of this thing. he

he understands that he must fight for his shrines with his territory for his right to the future, and he will fight if necessary. may god grant that all this ends peacefully. but what was created is artificial. uh, state uh in the underbelly of serbia. this is very, very bad. this is very, very dangerous, and naturally nato will not come forward. there, in the next size, nato will once again support pumping up weapons to completely uncontrolled enclaves, which will then destroy old women and children. here is my opinion. thanks a lot for what came to our studio was commented on by those current news. thank you thank you

we'll take care of this. it will be honest.

and the main event by this minute in our news release, the russian army did not allow a breakthrough of ukrainian units , the vysovs lost more than 800 soldiers, officers and mercenaries, half in the donetsk direction , 19 tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed, as well as 10 self-propelled guns and howitzers, including the american m77 latest reports from the front line. boris ivanin.