[Russia] - Russian Orthodox Leader Calls on Clerics to Forgo Luxurious Lifestyles

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Especially now, when the whole country is making efforts and limiting itself, sacrificing for the sake of others," Patriarch Kirill said at
should be a joyful, uplifting, inspiring event in the life of the community, solving its difficulties, occasionally including material
a more global clash of civilizations: one that increasingly departs from divinely ordained norms of life, and the other that strives to
apartment in the famous House on the Embankment and a 38-square-meter apartment on Nikoloyamskaya Street, while in St
Kirill does not fly on commercial flights and instead uses private aviation, media have reported, such as a Gulfstream G450 jet worth $43
million
The Russian Orthodox Church also owns a $4 million luxury yacht which is used for river cruises by Patriarch Kirill himself and the
personal residence costing 2.8 billion rubles ($30.9 million) was being built for Patriarch Kirill near St
Petersburg.In perhaps the most famous example, the Russian Orthodox Church blurred out a 30,000-euro Breguet watch that the Patriarch wore
in a 2012 photo
However, the watch was reflected on the table below his wrist.