Paul Goble
Staunton, Aug. 18 – Not all of Moscow’s counterpropaganda efforts are based in the Russian capital or even within the current borders of the Russian Federation, something that often means they can operate below the radar screens of those concerned with religious liberties and threats to them.
The latest example of this is a new portal, Heritage (mostenire.online), stablished by the Russian Orthodox Church in Moldova, carrying information in three languages, Moldovan, Russian and English, about what it describes as the violation of the rights of Christian faithful in the former Soviet republics (rusk.ru/newsdata.php?idar=120391).
According to the announcement on the creation of this site, its staff consists of representatives of “various countries and professions” who are united in wanting to “defend that which is the basis of normal life and a normal future, the Church, institutes of the family and marriage and also traditional values.”
This Russian site in Moldova can be expected to reach out to traditionalists in the West as well and thus take its place alongside Moscow operations designed to divide the population there. It is far from the only such site in operation: it is only the latest example of the ways in which Russian churches are being used by Moscow.
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