During a session of the Congress of People’s Deputies held in Warsaw from 27-29 June under the leadership of former Russian State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev, one of the participants asked me, “How do you Tatars feel about Patriarch Kirill? After all, in Russia he is considered a saint, isn’t that right?”
I didn’t have the opportunity to answer this question during the session; only now have I found the time to outline my opinion in detail. How can he be a “saint”? Agent “Mikhailov”—the pseudonym he used—worked for the KGB. Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyaev is known to the world as Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. Patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev) served in the 1990s, when he consolidated his position and amassed the fortune that ultimately allowed him to ascend to the patriarchal throne. Before assuming this position, his personal fortune, according to some experts, reached $4 billion. How can Gundyaev be considered a saint?
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