TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak and her film crew were attacked in the monastery. She wrote about this in her Telegramchannel “Bloody mistress”.
“We were attacked in a monastery. Two people are beaten. The camera was smashed. They pushed me so that I fell, and held me while they beat Yerzhenkov, ”she wrote.
According to Sobchak, the police were called to the scene of the incident. “The camera was taken by hefty bugs,” added the TV presenter.
She did not specify in which particular monastery the attack occurred. However is knownthat now Sobchak, together with the film crew, is in Yekaterinburg, where a church trial will take place over the disgraced shegumen Sergiy (Romanov), who seized the Central Ural Monastery. It was clarified that the journalist wanted to make a film about the priest.
On the seizure of the nunnery “Brew dispenser” became known June 16th. Father Sergius began to conduct services, despite the ban on service for the public denial of the coronavirus. On June 17, he released a video message in which he responded to allegations of the capture of the monastery and explained that he had remained in the monastery for the sake of nuns, “their children.”
According to journalists, there were Cossacks on the monastery’s territory, allegedly called upon to protect themselves from provocations. After reports of this, FSB officers and police visited the facility, and the Orenburg Military Cossack Society (OVKO) renounced the Cossacks who had seized the monastery. The monastery also discovered comedian Dmitry Sokolov and hockey player Pavel Datsyuk. According to Vsevolod Moguchev, they came to pray there.