Kyiv, September 17 (PolitNavigator, Yuri Kovalchuk) – Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, received a strange gift for a religious leader. During a visit to the plant named after. Gagarin in the Far East of Russia, the primate was presented with a single-seat combat fighter Su-35, reports the American newspaper New York Times.
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“Kirill was given a jet plane after he brought icons blessed by him as a gift to the enterprise and its staff,” the publication writes.
Journalists also expressed the opinion that Patriarch Kirill favors Putin's attempts to restore the USSR, and the Russian Orthodox Church has a significant influence on politics in Russia and other former republics of the Union.
In fact, Patriarch Kirill received a mini copy of the latest fighter as a gift. The gift is large enough, but it is just a mockup, and nothing more. Probably, reporters of a reputable American publication were misled by liberal blogs, in which the mention that the gift was a layout was modestly omitted. In turn, prone to stereotypes about wild Russian journalists did not begin to double-check the information by posting absurdity in the newspaper.