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Disgraced Orthodox monk threatens political power

SCHEHEGUMEN SERGIUS SUGGESTS TO PUTIN TO TRANSFER PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY TO HIM

Znak, 12 July 2020

 

Father Sergius (Nikolai Romanov), whom a church court ordered unfrocked, suggested to Vladimir Putin that he transfer to him the authority of president. "In three days I will bring order into Russia," he said in another appeal published in the YouTube account of his representative Vsevolod Moguchev.

 

Sergius says that otherwise he will declare spiritual war on Putin and also on Patriarch Kirill.

 

"Be careful. There will be no blood, nor maidans, nor revolutions. The Khazar khanate got power for free. As it happened, so will you surrender. Once again I remind you to lay down your authority. Twenty years were given to you to show who rules Russia. I have authority and power to declare to you, Mister Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin: lay down your authority. Otherwise you will be weighed in the balance and found wanting and your days are numbered. I await your repentance with Patriarch Kirill Gundiaev," Sergius says.

 

He notes that the events in Khabarovsk, where spontaneous rallies in support of the man arrested on a charge of arranging the murder of Governor Sergei Furgal, are "the first swallow," and "swallows live all over Russia and are even flying over the Kremlin."

 

Schehegumen Sergius declared that it is necessary to unfrock the patriarch and the metropolitan of Ekaterinburg.

 

We recall that last week a church court of the Ekaterinburg diocese deprived Schehegumen Sergius of clerical rank for videos on YouTube with recordings of sermons in which he speaks about the creation of an "electronic concentration camp of Satan," curses the leadership of the RPTs for closing churches during the pandemic, and speaks out against first persons of the state. The decision of the diocesan court will not take effect until it is signed by Patriarch Kirill.

 

A court in Verkhnaia Pyshma also found Sergius guilty in an administrative case based on part 9 of article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Violations of Law ("Dissemination on the internet of socially significant information known to be unreliable in the guise of reliable reports that create a threat to the life and/or health of citizens, if these actions of the person disseminating the information do not contain acts that are criminally punishable") for denying the coronavirus. The court fined him 90,000 rubles. (tr. by PDS, posted 12 July 2020)


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