RUSSIA-POLITICS-CHUKOTKA-RELIGION

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Arial view of a local Orthodox church in Anadyr taken 11 July 2007. Since the Soviet Union’s fall, the Church has restored ties with the state, pushing aside grievances from the Stalin era when thousands of priests, monks and nuns perished in the vast Gulag prison system. AFP PHOTO / NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA