Russian Foreign Ministry: in the West there is a frontal attack on everything Russian, including the Russian Orthodox Church

This was stated by the special representative of the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry for cooperation in the field of ensuring the right to freedom of religion, ambassador-at-large of the department Gennady Askaldovich.

According to him, in a number of unfriendly countries, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church were subjected to "hard moral and psychological pressure."

“We are witnessing a frontal attack on everything Russian abroad.

This negative process did not bypass the Russian Orthodox Church, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.