Russian Orthodox Church and Covid-19 Pandemic: New Challenges and New Opportunities
Journal: Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi
Year: 2022

COVID-19 pandemic that reached Russia in March 2020, affected Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in a negative way. Following the recommendations about the closure of the churches in Russia in late March 2020, ROC confronted serious challenges. This article problematizes position of ROC that faced a dilemma whether to close churches and put some of them onto the brink of poverty, or to perform religion’s main function and support citizens morally and spiritually. This article seeks to answer the ques