Hundreds protest handover of St. Petersburg’s landmark cathedral to Russian Orthodox Church

‘Some 2,000 people took part in a rally against the handover of St. Isaac’s Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church. Protesters fear the Church will not maintain the public museum function of the iconic building which is a popular tourist attraction.
“Nearly 2,000 people have taken part in protests at the Field of Mars. There have been no incidents reported at the rally so far,” a spokesperson for the Interior Ministry in St Petersburg and the Leningrad region said, as cited by TASS.
The rally was not officially sanctioned, as the site was already reserved for another action. The organizers, however, said the anti-handover gathering was in the legally-allowed format of a meeting with local MPs.’
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