RUSSIAN CHURCH LEADER TO VISIT KAZAKHSTAN.

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Aleksii II will visit Alma-Ata and Karaganda later this month on the invitation of Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev, Krasnaya zvezda said June 9. An article in Kommersant-Daily the same day said that Aleksii is deeply troubled by his inability to influence the current Russian government on issues such as Chechnya.

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