ROC’s Z-Metropolitan Yevgeny of Yekaterinburg and Verkhotursk proposed to assign a priest to each media outlet.
This was reported by the Telegram channel Christians Against War.
The metropolitan voiced the initiative at a meeting with the heads of the state-run media of the Sverdlovsk region.
Journalists unanimously supported the idea. Specific priests will be approved by late February. They should meet with the editorial boards, speak with the staff, and together come up with new formats for interaction.
Previously, the metropolitan has repeatedly surprised the public with odious statements: for example, he said that “music of life is born at a tank factory”. He compared Christ’s victory over death with Russia’s victory over Ukraine, and called Russia’s military campaign against Ukraine “a necessary surgical intervention”.