REGIONAL PROSECUTOR EXCOMMUNICATED.
Publication: Monitor Volume: 3 Issue: 91
Volgograd oblast’s chief law officer, Vyacheslav Shestopalov, has been excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church after he ordered a financial audit of churches in the region. Shestopalov became suspicious when he learned that people arrested for drunken driving had been urged by traffic police to make "voluntary" donations to a church construction project. Shestopalov is unperturbed by the excommunication, saying he never goes to church anyway. (Itar-Tass, May 5)
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