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Patriarch Kirill to answer viewers` questions in his TV program.
MOSCOW, January 9 (Itar-Tass) - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All
Russia is resuming the practice of answering questions in his "Pastor's
Word" TV program which has been on air for 15 years.
The last two years the program has broadcast the recordings of Kirill'
s prayers during his trips to the eparchies of the Russian Orthodox Church
in Russia and abroad.
A regular issue of the "Pastor's Word" program, the first in 2011,
will go on air on the First Channel at 09:40 on Sunday morning. The head
of the Russian Orthodox Church will review the past year and will answer
the questions of a female viewer from the city of Ryazan who is concerned
with prospects of Russia's development. Once a month the patriarch will
devote his program, which usually comes out on Saturdays, to answering
questions posed in letters written by the Russians.
"The concern expressed in these letters and the questions raised in
them help me understand with what our people and our Orthodox believers
are living today, what they are concerned with and what attracts their
attention," Patriarch Kirill said.
.First International Christmas Festival to open in Moscow.
MOSCOW, January 9 (Itar-Tass) - The First International Christmas
Festival of religious music will open at the Moscow International House of
Music on Sunday. The festival's organizers are maestro Vladimir Spivakov
and Metropolitan Ilarion Alfeyev who is a church music composer.
The program includes performances by choirs representing various
Christian traditions. They include the Choir of the Westminster Abbey from
London, singers from Echmiadzin of the Armenian Apostolic Church and the
St. Steven of Decani Serbian Orthodox Choir from Novi Sad. The Russian
participants include the Moscow Synodic Choir, the Choir of the Sretensky
Monastery and the Academy of Choral Art named after Viktor Popov.
The program features spiritual music that ranges from the 15th century
to our days.
Conductor Vladimir Spivakov and his orchestra will play Igor
Stravinsky's Symphony of the Psalms, a piece by Leonard Bernstein and
fragments of the Christmas Oratory composed by Metropolitan Ilarion
Alfeyev at the closing concert. Metropolitan Ilarion will also present a
fragment of his composition written as transcription of the opening part
of Bach's Art of Fugue.
The Moscow Synodic Choir will open the festival. The choir was famous
in pre-revolutionary Russia. Its revival started a year ago. Its director
is Honoured Artist of Russia Alexei Puzakov, the conductor of the choir of
the Church of the Tretyakov Picture Gallery. They will sing music pieces
by Rakhmaninov and Kastalsky as well as compositions of modern authors.
The program also includes the suite "Joy of All who Sorrow" by Nikolai
Golovanov, the Bolshoi Theatre's conductor in Soviet times. It has never
been performed on a concert stage.
.The Krasin icebreaker is on its way to ice-stranded ships.
MOSCOW, January 9 (Itar-Tass) - Another icebreaker, the Krasin, has
arrived in the Sea of Okhotsk to help freeing three Russian vessels from
ice. The Krasin is making its way through the ice fields of Sakhalin Gulf
in a bid to reach the Admiral Makarov icebreaker. At the moment, the
Admiral Makarov is pulling the Shore of Hope refrigerator to clean
waters. The Krasin has to cover just 9 miles to reach that caravan.
Earlier, the Admiral Makarov towed the Professor Kizevetter research
vessel into an easily passable ice area and handed it over to the Magadan
icebreaker that piloted it to open waters.
The third ship, the Sodruzhestvo floating base, remains stranded in
the ice. Experts believe that it's going to be harder to take it out to
clear waters because it's hull is wider than that of an icebreaker. The
Krasin icebreaker is expected o widen the canal for the ship's passage.
Three Russian vessels, the Sodruzhestvo, the Professor Kizevetter and
the Shore of Hope got stranded in the ice of Sakhalin Gulf, the Sea of
Okhotsk, on December 30 last year. According to scientists who have
carried out research, the thickness of ice in the Gulf in various periods
varies from two to four meters. Some chunks of ice can be 25 meters thick.
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Russia is resuming the practice of answering questions in his "Pastor's
Word" TV program which has been on air for 15 years.
The last two years the program has broadcast the recordings of Kirill'
s prayers during his trips to the eparchies of the Russian Orthodox Church
in Russia and abroad.
A regular issue of the "Pastor's Word" program, the first in 2011,
will go on air on the First Channel at 09:40 on Sunday morning. The head
of the Russian Orthodox Church will review the past year and will answer
the questions of a female viewer from the city of Ryazan who is concerned
with prospects of Russia's development. Once a month the patriarch will
devote his program, which usually comes out on Saturdays, to answering
questions posed in letters written by the Russians.
"The concern expressed in these letters and the questions raised in
them help me understand with what our people and our Orthodox believers
are living today, what they are concerned with and what attracts their
attention," Patriarch Kirill said.
.First International Christmas Festival to open in Moscow.
MOSCOW, January 9 (Itar-Tass) - The First International Christmas
Festival of religious music will open at the Moscow International House of
Music on Sunday. The festival's organizers are maestro Vladimir Spivakov
and Metropolitan Ilarion Alfeyev who is a church music composer.
The program includes performances by choirs representing various
Christian traditions. They include the Choir of the Westminster Abbey from
London, singers from Echmiadzin of the Armenian Apostolic Church and the
St. Steven of Decani Serbian Orthodox Choir from Novi Sad. The Russian
participants include the Moscow Synodic Choir, the Choir of the Sretensky
Monastery and the Academy of Choral Art named after Viktor Popov.
The program features spiritual music that ranges from the 15th century
to our days.
Conductor Vladimir Spivakov and his orchestra will play Igor
Stravinsky's Symphony of the Psalms, a piece by Leonard Bernstein and
fragments of the Christmas Oratory composed by Metropolitan Ilarion
Alfeyev at the closing concert. Metropolitan Ilarion will also present a
fragment of his composition written as transcription of the opening part
of Bach's Art of Fugue.
The Moscow Synodic Choir will open the festival. The choir was famous
in pre-revolutionary Russia. Its revival started a year ago. Its director
is Honoured Artist of Russia Alexei Puzakov, the conductor of the choir of
the Church of the Tretyakov Picture Gallery. They will sing music pieces
by Rakhmaninov and Kastalsky as well as compositions of modern authors.
The program also includes the suite "Joy of All who Sorrow" by Nikolai
Golovanov, the Bolshoi Theatre's conductor in Soviet times. It has never
been performed on a concert stage.
.The Krasin icebreaker is on its way to ice-stranded ships.
MOSCOW, January 9 (Itar-Tass) - Another icebreaker, the Krasin, has
arrived in the Sea of Okhotsk to help freeing three Russian vessels from
ice. The Krasin is making its way through the ice fields of Sakhalin Gulf
in a bid to reach the Admiral Makarov icebreaker. At the moment, the
Admiral Makarov is pulling the Shore of Hope refrigerator to clean
waters. The Krasin has to cover just 9 miles to reach that caravan.
Earlier, the Admiral Makarov towed the Professor Kizevetter research
vessel into an easily passable ice area and handed it over to the Magadan
icebreaker that piloted it to open waters.
The third ship, the Sodruzhestvo floating base, remains stranded in
the ice. Experts believe that it's going to be harder to take it out to
clear waters because it's hull is wider than that of an icebreaker. The
Krasin icebreaker is expected o widen the canal for the ship's passage.
Three Russian vessels, the Sodruzhestvo, the Professor Kizevetter and
the Shore of Hope got stranded in the ice of Sakhalin Gulf, the Sea of
Okhotsk, on December 30 last year. According to scientists who have
carried out research, the thickness of ice in the Gulf in various periods
varies from two to four meters. Some chunks of ice can be 25 meters thick.
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