{"id":26527,"date":"2025-01-26T16:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T14:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=26527"},"modified":"2025-01-26T16:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T14:15:28","slug":"how-russian-church-in-estonia-tries-to-avoid-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/how-russian-church-in-estonia-tries-to-avoid-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"How Russian Church in Estonia tries to avoid restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate has announced plans to change its name to avoid restrictions resulting from new legislative initiatives by Estonian authorities. Moving forward, it will be called the Estonian Christian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n<p>The Estonian Ministry of the Interior has urged the church to sever all ties with the Russian Orthodox Church, citing concerns about its connections to Russian influence. Meanwhile, the Russian Orthodox Church dismisses these actions as \u201cRussophobia\u201d and a \u201cviolation of freedom of religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This name change is yet another attempt by the ROC MP to mask its influence in Europe, as an increasing number of countries want to distance themselves from a religious organization deeply involved in promoting and justifying Russian aggression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate has announced plans to change its name to avoid restrictions resulting from new legislative initiatives by Estonian authorities. Moving forward, it will be called the Estonian Christian Orthodox Church. The Estonian Ministry of the Interior has urged the church to sever all ties with the Russian Orthodox&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}