The decision to close Lavra monastery to clergy from the Russian-controlled Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate has been seized upon by the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church as an attack on Christianity and religious freedom. This could not be further from the truth.
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