Putin met with the ex-secretary of the Odessa diocese, who left Ukraine after pressure from the SBU
11.09.2014 11:10
(Moscow time)
Moscow - Odessa, September 11 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Ryabov) - Vladimir Putin visited the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity on the Sparrow Hills in Moscow - recently its rector is Archpriest Andrei Novikov, ex-secretary of the Odessa diocese, who left Ukraine last spring after being summoned for interrogation in intelligence services in the case of separatism.
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Putin, leaving the temple, told reporters that he lit candles “for those who suffered and for those who gave their lives defending the people of Novorossiya.”