In the influence they exert Russian oligarchs in monasteries of Mount Athos the BILD newspaper reports.
«That the Moscow uses Mount Athos as Trojan horse to set foot in Europe and undermine the EU, has always been a common secret. But this undermining has taken on frightening proportions. Russians and pro-Russians have occupied our monastery “For years and no government or authority has dared to do anything,” he told BILD Bartholomew, legal abbot of the monastery of Esfigmenos».
Bartholomew then narrates that “rich Russians and so-called oligarchs always came to Mount Athos. Everyone knows this, not just me. They have donated a lot of money to some monasteries, especially to Agios Panteleimon. Their presence was not accidental, nor were their donations accidental. These visits have a special symbolic meaning and are part of expansion plans that Russia has always had for Mount Athos».
Bartholomew even claims that in the area of influence of Russian monasteries are held and criminal offenses: «We informed the Greek authorities about the illegal arrival of speedboats, which are never controlled by the Coast Guard, unlike all other vessels. The harbor master informed their owners whenever Coast Guard ships patrolled or prepared to intervene. When police arrested the head of the local coast guard, they found some women who had washed up on the shore. If I remember correctly, he was from Ukraine».
Deutsche Welle
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