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Russians in Turkey to attend church services in Russian.
ISTANBUL, July 5 (Itar-Tass) - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartolomeo and
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill agreed during their first
official meeting on Saturday that Russian tourists in Turkey would soon be
able to attend church services in Russian. The meeting was held at the
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Istanbul.
"We talked about new realities that are emerging in Turkey today. This
is one of the main reasons why I am here. About two million of our
compatriots visit Turkey in summer, tens of thousands of Russians
permanently reside in Turkey, there are many mixed marriages. Naturally,
that has raised the question of pastoral direction of these people,"
Patriarch Kirill told reporters after his talks with Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartolomeo.
"Turkey is a canonical territory of the Patriarchate of Constantinople
but an approach to all these problems was found during the talks,"
Patriarch Kirill went on to say.
He added that the Turkish government was paying great attention to the
growing number of tourists and pilgrims in Russia.
"On the basis of trilateral agreements we will be able to create a
relatively solid canonical system of pastoral direction of Orthodox
Russians, Russian-speakers and those who visit Turkey as tourists and
pilgrims," Patriarch Kirill said.
In the meantime, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartolomeo on Saturday called on
the Russian Orthodox Church to join efforts to defend the Christian values
in the world.
"The days humanity is living through are not joyous and cloudless. An
omnifaceted crisis - spiritual, moral and financial - has spread around
the globe. Though aggressive atheism has retreated almost everywhere,
practical atheism of self-sufficiency and arrogance is flourishing,"
Patriarch Bartolomeo said.
He noted that ongoing wars were making entire peoples refugees, drug
addiction was on the rise, women and children were being exploited and
religious and nationalistic fanaticism was being incited.
Patriarch Bartolomeo added that instead of being unanimous the
Christians also engage in infighting because of ambition. He urged all
Christians to live peace and unity.
The ecumenical patriarch said that a meeting of the Holy All-Orthodox
Council might set a good example both for Christians and the whole world.
Patriarch Bartolomeo warmly greeted the head of the Russian Orthodox
Church.
"Welcome to Constantinople and New Rome from where the light of the
New Testament came to Your great Homeland," Patriarch Bartolomeo told
Patriarch Kirill at their first official meeting.
For his part, Patriarch Kirill said that he supported the idea to act
as the single Church.
.Great Tea Route may become new tourist attraction in Russia.
PERM, the Perm territory, July 5 (Itar-Tass) - The Great Tea Route may
become the world's lengthiest inland tourist attraction if it is included
in the federal program for the development of tourism in Russia up to
2020, the organizers of an international tourist forum told Itar-Tass on
Saturday.
One hundred twenty representatives of tourist firms and government
officials from Moscow, the Republic of Tatarstan, Buryatia, the Irkutsk,
Sverdlovsk and Kirov regions as well as Great Britain took part in the
international forum titled "The Great Tea Route".
"The Great Tea Route" is 12,000 kilometers long.
"We hope that business missions will follow after tourists. Besides,
the development of domestic tourism, given a decline in foreign travel,
should be considered as an anti-crisis measure," Dmitry Sazonov, the
deputy minister for trade and entrepreneurship of the Perm territory, told
Itar-Tass.
"New infrastructure will have to be developed. That will create
incentives for small businesses along the entire length of the route,"
Sazonov went on to say.
In the 19th century, the Great Tea Route was a transcontinental route
for delivering tea from China to Central Russia. It could be compared only
to the Great Silk Route by its length. It passed through many Russian
cities, including Perm and Kungur. All wholesale tea trade concentrated
in Kungur in 1840.
.Prominent Russian athletes to gather for sport forum in Sochi.
SOCHI, July 5 (Itar-Tass) - Prominent Russian athletes will gather for
the "Sport Stars of Russia" forum at the Krasnaya Polyana mountain resort
on Sunday to mark the second anniversary since Sochi was proclaimed to be
the capital of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
Alexander Karelin, Vladislav Tretyak, Alexander Tikhonov, Galina
Gorokhova, Svetlana Gladysheva and Leonid Tyagachev will lay down marble
name stars on the way to a future highland Olympic Village and skiing and
biathlon stadiums, a source at the Russian Olympic Committee told
Itar-Tass.
Olympic champions Olga Zaitseva, Svetlana Ishmuratova, Alexander
Karelin and Igor Ter-Ovanesyan will plant more young trees at the "Sport
Stars of Russia" alley. It was planted at a height of 1,150 meters above
the sea level last year.
The forum will end with the award of the annual national sport prize
"Stars of Sport". This year the prize has been awarded to pole vault
jumper Elena Isinbayeva, biathlon champion Olga Zaitseva and the Russian
National Hockey Team that is represented by Vladislav Tretyak.
-0-fil/
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill agreed during their first
official meeting on Saturday that Russian tourists in Turkey would soon be
able to attend church services in Russian. The meeting was held at the
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Istanbul.
"We talked about new realities that are emerging in Turkey today. This
is one of the main reasons why I am here. About two million of our
compatriots visit Turkey in summer, tens of thousands of Russians
permanently reside in Turkey, there are many mixed marriages. Naturally,
that has raised the question of pastoral direction of these people,"
Patriarch Kirill told reporters after his talks with Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartolomeo.
"Turkey is a canonical territory of the Patriarchate of Constantinople
but an approach to all these problems was found during the talks,"
Patriarch Kirill went on to say.
He added that the Turkish government was paying great attention to the
growing number of tourists and pilgrims in Russia.
"On the basis of trilateral agreements we will be able to create a
relatively solid canonical system of pastoral direction of Orthodox
Russians, Russian-speakers and those who visit Turkey as tourists and
pilgrims," Patriarch Kirill said.
In the meantime, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartolomeo on Saturday called on
the Russian Orthodox Church to join efforts to defend the Christian values
in the world.
"The days humanity is living through are not joyous and cloudless. An
omnifaceted crisis - spiritual, moral and financial - has spread around
the globe. Though aggressive atheism has retreated almost everywhere,
practical atheism of self-sufficiency and arrogance is flourishing,"
Patriarch Bartolomeo said.
He noted that ongoing wars were making entire peoples refugees, drug
addiction was on the rise, women and children were being exploited and
religious and nationalistic fanaticism was being incited.
Patriarch Bartolomeo added that instead of being unanimous the
Christians also engage in infighting because of ambition. He urged all
Christians to live peace and unity.
The ecumenical patriarch said that a meeting of the Holy All-Orthodox
Council might set a good example both for Christians and the whole world.
Patriarch Bartolomeo warmly greeted the head of the Russian Orthodox
Church.
"Welcome to Constantinople and New Rome from where the light of the
New Testament came to Your great Homeland," Patriarch Bartolomeo told
Patriarch Kirill at their first official meeting.
For his part, Patriarch Kirill said that he supported the idea to act
as the single Church.
.Great Tea Route may become new tourist attraction in Russia.
PERM, the Perm territory, July 5 (Itar-Tass) - The Great Tea Route may
become the world's lengthiest inland tourist attraction if it is included
in the federal program for the development of tourism in Russia up to
2020, the organizers of an international tourist forum told Itar-Tass on
Saturday.
One hundred twenty representatives of tourist firms and government
officials from Moscow, the Republic of Tatarstan, Buryatia, the Irkutsk,
Sverdlovsk and Kirov regions as well as Great Britain took part in the
international forum titled "The Great Tea Route".
"The Great Tea Route" is 12,000 kilometers long.
"We hope that business missions will follow after tourists. Besides,
the development of domestic tourism, given a decline in foreign travel,
should be considered as an anti-crisis measure," Dmitry Sazonov, the
deputy minister for trade and entrepreneurship of the Perm territory, told
Itar-Tass.
"New infrastructure will have to be developed. That will create
incentives for small businesses along the entire length of the route,"
Sazonov went on to say.
In the 19th century, the Great Tea Route was a transcontinental route
for delivering tea from China to Central Russia. It could be compared only
to the Great Silk Route by its length. It passed through many Russian
cities, including Perm and Kungur. All wholesale tea trade concentrated
in Kungur in 1840.
.Prominent Russian athletes to gather for sport forum in Sochi.
SOCHI, July 5 (Itar-Tass) - Prominent Russian athletes will gather for
the "Sport Stars of Russia" forum at the Krasnaya Polyana mountain resort
on Sunday to mark the second anniversary since Sochi was proclaimed to be
the capital of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
Alexander Karelin, Vladislav Tretyak, Alexander Tikhonov, Galina
Gorokhova, Svetlana Gladysheva and Leonid Tyagachev will lay down marble
name stars on the way to a future highland Olympic Village and skiing and
biathlon stadiums, a source at the Russian Olympic Committee told
Itar-Tass.
Olympic champions Olga Zaitseva, Svetlana Ishmuratova, Alexander
Karelin and Igor Ter-Ovanesyan will plant more young trees at the "Sport
Stars of Russia" alley. It was planted at a height of 1,150 meters above
the sea level last year.
The forum will end with the award of the annual national sport prize
"Stars of Sport". This year the prize has been awarded to pole vault
jumper Elena Isinbayeva, biathlon champion Olga Zaitseva and the Russian
National Hockey Team that is represented by Vladislav Tretyak.
-0-fil/
