The Exarch of the African Patriarch Metropolitan Klinsky Leonid (Gorbachev) said that he applied to the FSB Border Service because of the inappropriate treatment at the airport of African students who came to Russia to study in educational institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). .
The Metropolitan wrote in his article: “The questions of the border guard officer Mikhail, who refused to give his name and position, were absolutely unacceptable, humiliating and criminally ugly.” telegram channel.
According to him, the border guard asked future students how much they paid the Russian Orthodox Church and the Exarchate to be invited to study in Russia; There were also corruption charges against the Exarchate for assisting Africans in illegal immigration from Africa to Europe and Canada. through the Russian Federation.
Metropolitan Leonid claims that on August 26, two students were held at customs for five hours at Domodedovo airport for questioning.
Regarding the incident, the exarch sent an official appeal to the leadership of the Border Guard Service of the FSB of Russia with a request to investigate “not the first case” of such an attitude towards future priests in Africa.
According to this DEA NewsFuture students came from Africa.
Previously at ROC started Confirmation due to consecration of the Stalin monument in Velikiye Luki.