Kirill, the billionaire patriarch among luxury watches and mountain chalets – Foreign

The bell rings for the patriarch of Moscow, Kirill. The EU will sanction him like Putin and his oligarchs. There is a risk of freezing of movable property and immovable property abroad. Accounts, houses, boats. And to be banned from entering the EU. “Patriarch Kirill – reads the text of the sixth package of sanctions against Russia – is responsible for supporting or implementing actions or policies that undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, as well as the stability and security in Ukraine “. “The patriarch comes from a family persecuted during communism and is not afraid of EU sanctions”, the response of the patriarchate, which makes him pass as a victim. Assault on the Azovstal steel mill, Russian raids on Kiev and other cities Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundiaiev, 75, primate of the Moscow Orthodox Church with the name of Kirill since 27 January 2009, is certainly a pious, rich and powerful man. Totally aligned with Putin’s autocratic regime, whose leadership he called “a miracle of God”, and at whose service he placed the church altar of him, even apart from truth, piety and justice. And not by chance. Both are natives of Leningrad-St. Petersburg, but above all they are both directly or indirectly traced back to the large and obscure family of the KGB: the Tsar officially, Kirill unofficially. Like his predecessor patriarch Aleksi II (code name Drozdov, agent since 1958), and his patron the Metropolitan of Lenigrad Nikodim (code name Svyatoslav) Kirill – as indicated by documents from the Mitrokhin archive and others seen by various researchers – he would have been enlisted by the KGB in February 1972 when he was just 25 years old and given the code name of Mikhailov (probably from his patronymic Mikhailovich, son of Mikhail). The documents released range from 1972 to the end of the 1980s. Kirill would serve the first directorate …