Moscow's goal is to reduce the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul Despite persistent efforts by some pro-Russian propaganda circles and Moscow's authorized "correspondents" in Greece to accuse the Ecumenical Patriarchate of failing to respond to the "protector" of the Orthodox "Holy Russia" in the conversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque Analysts, who know in depth the history and geopolitical things, reject this outrageous and utterly misleading view. We have already referred to the position of Internationalist Konstantinos Filis, Head of the Russia-Eurasia & Southern Europe Center of the Institute of International Relations, who, speaking to SKAI's main news bulletin, on Saturday, July 11, 2020, one day later conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque, he said, among other things: "It is no coincidence that Russia, the most populous country in Orthodoxy, has taken a blatant stance because on the one hand the Russian Church denounces Erdogan's decision yesterday, on the other hand the Russian president's spokesman says that is an internal matter of Turkey. So it seems that Moscow does not want to damage relations with Ankara because of Hagia Sophia. " Mr. Filis repeated the same position on SKAI's morning show "Today", on Monday, July 13, 2020, giving it a broader historical dimension, which is easily confirmed by a simple flashback to the past: "Russia and Turkey consider themselves the successors of the former empires and, just as the former empires did not quarrel over the small ones but kept a functional relationship with each other, so it is now between Putin and Erdogan." "Little thing", then, for Putin's "Holy Russia", the eternal symbol of Orthodoxy, the Hagia Sophia, the Holy Cathedral in which the Slavs of the north came to know Christianity ... Even more resonant was the intervention of Mr. Konstantinos Yfantis, Associate Professor of International Relations at Panteion University, who put things on a historical footing, one that anyone can detect and confirm over time: "Russia was absolutely predictable in its behavior for anyone who knows Russia's aspirations. Russia's aspirations are to reduce the presence of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul. That is, they are almost happy ... ". Finally, born of Halki Pringiponnisa journalist Manolis Kostidis denied the claims of the Moscow propagandists that supposedly all blame recognition Ukranian by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, recalling the characteristics of Turkish equipment from Russia with S -400 and the construction by the Russians of the Turkish nuclear power plant in Akkuyu, which of course has nothing to do with the ecclesiastical developments in Ukraine, since they have been far ahead of the relevant decisions of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. "There is something else," said the experienced journalist ...
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