In the town of Vidnoye near Moscow, the body of 90-year-old Roman Legoida, the journalist’s father, head of the Synodal Department for Social Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church and head of the Patriarch’s press service, was found. Kirill Vladimir Legoida from Moscow and All Russia, transmits TASS, citing law enforcement agencies.
“The body of a 90-year-old local resident with multiple stab wounds was found on the side of a highway in the Leninsky urban district,” said the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee (spelling and punctuation preserved. – socialbites.ca).
A murder case was opened (part 1 of article 105 of the Criminal Code). The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, has taken control of the investigation and is awaiting an operational report from the regional investigation on “the initial investigative actions carried out and the circumstances of the incident.”
“The most experienced investigators and criminologists are working on the scene.” highlighted in SK.
The official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Volk, said that employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will do everything possible to solve the crime and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Telegram channel 112 states that the body was found in a valley. There are 18 stab wounds, he is writing Telegram channel Mash. With information On mk.ru, the murdered man was first noticed by a man walking his dog.
Mash writes that Legoida left home around 12 noon on December 29 to buy bread and disappeared. His body was found four hours later. Also 112 claimsIt was stated that a man was attacked while walking with his grandchild during the day.
What is known about the murdered man?
Roman Legoy also worked in the police. Son Vladimir in the name his “Home Office officer”. HE saidHe said that as a child he wanted to follow his father’s example and “join law enforcement.” It is also known that the deceased was from a village in the Vinnitsa region of the Ukrainian SSR.
“My father was a great communicator. He took me with him in the car, I traveled a lot with him on various topics and saw how he communicated. Maybe this is where I get the basics of diplomatic communication skills. <…> I was proud of my father, not because he was a cop, but because my father was something special. “Well… there was always some sort of holiday around him,” explained His father is Legoyda Jr.
Vladimir Legoyda himself is now 50 years old. He graduated from MGIMO and taught there for the first time. In his own words, he became deeply interested in religion when he went to America on an exchange program as a student and became close friends with the local Orthodox community. In America, Legoyda published a “vagrant magazine”, and after returning to Moscow he decided to create an Orthodox magazine for young people, “Thomas” (which gained wide popularity and is still published today).
In 2009, Legoyda became the first person in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church to hold the chairmanship of the synodal department of the Russian Orthodox Church, responsible for relations between the church and society and the media, without church education or ordination. He still holds this position. In 2019, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia fired the head of the press service, priest Alexander Volkov, and temporarily appointed Legoida.
In January of this year, Legoida, along with other representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, came under Ukrainian sanctions. Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky explainedHe stated that this decision “is about our spiritual independence, which we have strengthened and will strengthen.” Legoyda harshly criticized Kiev’s actions against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC): to call The persecution of the priests of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra is the “peak of lawlessness.”