Financing of Orthodox churches restoration has increased six times for four years

Budget financing of restoration of the Orthodox churches in Russia has increased six times for the last four years, Russian Minister of Culture and Mass Communications Alexander Sokolov said at the last session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy in Athens.

200,000 million rubles were allocated from the state budget for restoration of the Orthodox churches in 2004, while in 2007 the figure is 1,200,000 rubles, Interfax-Religion reports.

This figure shows that state expenditures for restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church buildings have increased six times in absolute index and almost two and a half times in federal budget expenditures for ‘Culture.’