The metropolitan Illarion commented on resignation from OVTsS post of the head

Moscow, 12 Jun - Federal state unitary enterprise RAMI "RIA Novosti". The metropolitan Budapeshtsky and the Hungarian Illarion (Alfeev) declared that does not know all details of the reasons of the discharge from the management of the Department of External Church Relations (DECR) of the Moscow patriarchy, but it is connected with changes in a political situation, and also compared a situation to "abrupt turn" into which he "did not fit". "I and itself do not know many details. To me it was told that this decision is not connected with any shortcomings in activity department of external church relations, either all-church postgraduate study, or this sacred temple, or Chernigov...