Gambling is Russia is growing, but that doesn’t mean that Orthodox churches should be turned into casinos. At least that’s what I think this Interfax story is about:
Russian President Putin criticized the gambling industry representatives who seek to use facilities belonging to the Russian Orthodox Church for their own purposes.
‘There is nothing good in it. I am sure that business, especially the gambling business, which may develop rather well, with a considerable profit rate, do not have to harm the feelings of believers by adjusting particular facilities for the solution of their own business problems. The more so that in the gambling industry in general, this matter should be treated very reservedly, very carefully’, the president said answering journalists’ questions during his press conference.
This was Putin’s comment on the situation developed around the attempts to turn the patriarchal mission in Sokolniki into a casino, as cited by his press service.
Putin condemns attempts of the gambling industry to adjust a church facility profit-making
Things are going crazy over there in the former Soviet Union. In Odessa, a woman was arrested for doing vampire-type blood drainings to kids. If the “Red Dragon” invites you to dinner and serves you vodka, look out: your blood might be desert.