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Russian Church will support neither side in political struggle

"We need to think a thousand times before replying, whether spontaneously or emotionally and vehemently, to any call of this sort: be with us only and not them, be with us against them, do not meet with Churov, do not meet with Navalny, meet only with those who have been recommended to you," head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin said at the 20th Christmas Readings in Moscow

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