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Epa11254447 Mime clowns and drummers celebrate Humor Day on the gallery of the Bolshoi Gostinniy Dvor at the Nevsky Prospect avenue in St. Petersburg, Russia, 01 April 2024. (ANSA)
The Ukrainian autocephalous Orthodox Church has removed the memorial of the holy Russian prince Aleksandr Nevsky from its liturgical calendar, teh saint who defeated Westerners in the 13th century and was the forerunner of the alliance with the Asian empires. While Kirill would like to canonise the great generals of Russian military history.
Eighty years ago, on January 27, 1944, people in the street were hugging each other and weeping with joy. They were celebrating the end of a nearly 900