KREMLIN
STILL DOES
NOT KNOW WHETHER PUTIN WILL ATTEND PASCHAL SERVICE IN CHURCH OF
CHRIST THE
SAVIOR
Interfax-Religiia,
16
April 2020
Dmitry
Peskov, the
Russian president's press secretary, declared that he still does
not know
whether the head of state is planning to attend the Easter
service in the
church of Christ the Savior this year.
"I still
cannot
tell you anything about the president's plans. I am not informed
about
them," he told journalists on Thursday, responding to a question
from
Interfax.
By
years-long
tradition, the president always attended the Easter service in a
cathedral of
the Russian church.
The only
time that
Putin did not attend the church of Christ the Savior for Pascha
was in 2003,
when the head of state was in Tajikistan on an official visit
and participated
in the Easter service in the Orthodox church of St. Nicholas in
Dushanbe. (tr.
by PDS, posted 16 April 2020)
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