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For Russian readers, my article on Orthodoxy in Belgium has just been published (in Russian) in the Orthodox magazine Alpha & Omega.

I wrote it in 2012, the 150th anniversary year of Orthodoxy in Belgium – the delay is largely due to the late editor-in-chief Marina Zhurinskaya’s illness and death last October.

I penned it in reaction to the usual ‘praise-singing’ articles which accompanied the anniversary, pointing to the serious problems lying ahead of Orthodoxy in Belgium and the need for clear forward thinking. It probably applies, mutatis mutandis, to diaspora Russian Orthodoxy in other countries outside Belgium.

It is my own opinion and not any ‘official line’. It is a plea for vision and common-sense in a situation in which right now fog and fantasy prevail.