RUSSIA: The Foreign Ministry summoned the Czech charge d’affaires yesterday to protest at the arrest of a cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church in Karlovy Vary.
Czech police say they discovered suspicious white powder in Metropolitan Hilarion’s car. The prelate caters for the city’s sizeable Russian diaspora.
Russia says the raid was a set-up and part of the persecution of Orthodox clergy loyal to the Moscow patriarchate, which the UN has identified as a threat to religious freedom in Ukraine.

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