Procession at St Tikhon Russian Orthodox Monastery, South Canaan PA USA
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Russian Orthodox Clergy Home
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Bishop Aleksei Panteleyev of San Francisco (1927-31) and Alaska (1934-44), died in Omsk USSR in 1948
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Frs Sergei and Afanassy at St Tikhon Monastery, South Canaan PA USA
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Deacon Dmitri Kudrikoff at St Tikhon Monastery, South Canaan PA USA. He served in a parish in Scranton PA.
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The “oldest monk” at St Tikhon Monastery, South Canaan PA USA, with his “pet”
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Metropolitan Leonty Turkevich (1876-1965), First Hierarch of the Metropolia 1950-65
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Metropolitan Feofily Pashkovsky (1874-1950), First Hierarch of the Metropolia 1934-50, with clergy
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Metropolitan Feofily Pashkovsky with youth
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At present, the church that grandiloquently calls itself THE “Orthodox Church in America“, and boastfully calls its leader the “Metropolitan of all America and Canada” lies in shambles. Today, there was supposedly a Spiritual Court convened to try the case of Dickie Wood. We don’t know whether Mr Wood was present or not (the last info I had was that Dickie was holed up in a Moscow apartment and he was avoiding all Church situations). There’s no word from the Lesser Synod on their decision. Compare this to the latest meeting of the UOC/MP Synod. They disciplined a cleric, and they publicised the news THE VERY SAME DAY, even though it was released at 23.14 MSK… that’s nearly midnight in the Centre, 21.14 in Kiev (that’s still late).
Were things always like this? NO! The Metropolia was a much more modest, unassuming, and pragmatic bunch, as befitted the fact that most of its members were po-nashemu Carpatho-Russians. These people knew the value of a dollar and worked hard for everything that they had. I recently wrote a friend:
Remember how people bitched and moaned about Fr Joe Pishtey? Betcha they want those days back, now, don’t they? People not only need to hear the “straight shit”, they also need to know that we once knew how to “walk the walk”. Here’s to the modest and grounded Metroprolia… we NEED to see that we “walked the walk”. People need to see that we knew what was what and who was who. I weep for those who want the old Metropolia back as it was… “you can’t go home again”. However, we can return to the sane, modest, and pragmatic ways of the Metropolia. You can’t “unlive” the past… and you shouldn’t want to. The last forty years taught us a bitter lesson… “There’s no place like home”.
My correspondent wrote back:
My baba asked, “Since when did we become this way?”
I wrote another friend:
You can say what you will, but the Metropolia knew how to “walk the walk”. All the OCA can do is “talk the talk”. Which do you prefer?
On the one hand, you have poseurs like Paffhausen, Oliver Herbel, the SVS crowd, the jabronies at “OCA Truth” and “Monomakhos”, and the HOOMies; on the other, you have people who want to emulate their fathers and mothers and have a REAL Orthodox Church. I’m for the latter group… “Honour your father and your mother so that your days will be long on the earth”. Whom do YOU want to follow? A bunch of nappy-wearing smarkachy (drippy-nosed kids), or do you want to hang out with REAL Orthodox Christians? It’s your choice…
Barbara-Marie Drezhlo
Wednesday 22 Fedruary 2012
Albany NY
Voices from Russia 
Putin: Foreign Meddling Won’t Bring Democracy
Tags: 2012 Russian presidential election, Darrell Issa, legal opposition, Michael McFaul, Moscow, Muammar Gaddafi, OMON, Political, political ambitions, Political campaign, political commentary, politics, poster, Putin, Republican, right-wing, right-wng politics, Russia, United States, USA, Vladimir Putin, vote rigging
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On Wednesday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that the development of democracy in Russia must proceed along its own sovereign course, without any outside interference, if it’s to avoid popular uprisings. Putin, who is running in the 4 March presidential election, said Russia must not become an importer of popular uprisings, “colour revolutions”, and cited Libya as an example, where tribal factions began warring with each other soon after the ouster of former leader Muammar Gaddafi. He said, “In order to prevent such things in our country, we need to develop our own democratic institutions so that people feel like participants in political processes and understand that the formation of power and the main directions in economic and social policies depend on them. This is the key point”. Then, he pointed up that the second most important thing was to prevent any foreign involvement in the country’s domestic affairs, just as Russia has no interest in meddling in the affairs of other countries, including its neighbours, saying, “We aren’t interested in, nor planning to, and don’t want to interfere in anyone else’s affairs. However, we’re interested in a stable situation around Russia”.
In the wake of numerous anti-government protests across Russia demanding fair elections, Putin said the country needs a legal opposition that isn’t “nourished from abroad. It’s necessary to have a legal opposition… unfortunately, we have people who’re ready to do everything for the sake of fulfilling their own political ambitions, which, unfortunately, are often fed from abroad”. Allegations of widespread vote rigging marked the Russian parliamentary elections in December, which triggered anti-government protests, with protesters demanding a repeat election. The government ignored that demand, but it did launch sweeping reforms aimed at opening up the political system.
22 February 2012
RIA-Novosti
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120222/171461686.html
Editor’s Note:
Let’s keep this short. US Ambassador McFaul’s interfering in Russian internal affairs. “Opposition leaders” are seen going in and out of the US Embassy. Let me make a prediction. The Left’s going to win the upcoming election… VVP will tack “left” to win. The US will be pissed, and put its paid lickspittles out on the streets. Trust me, VVP will call out the OMON and crush the American-sponsored running-dogs. Let’s be blunt… the “opposition” is concentrated in Moscow and Piter… and VVP knows it. The Western media know-nothings like Sophia Kishkovksy and Katrina vanden Heuvel only report on the pro-American Neoliberal segment of Russian society… and that’s only about 15 percent in the capitals and less than 5 percent in the country at large.
The Americans will play right into VVP’s hands… they’re that arrogant, hubristical, and juvenile (look at a typical Darrell Issa “congressional investigation” and you’ll know what I’m talking about). VVP will be able to identify all the pro-American anti-patriotic cruds and neutralise them. The Neocons and Interventionists ARE that stupid and careless. This time, they’ll run into real opposition… watch them all squeal after it’s over. I, for one, will crack open the jug and cheer…
BMD