From the official site of the Russian Orthodox Church (in English): “A Russian Orthodox church consecrated in Havana“ The Church of Our Lady of Kazan was consecrated on 19 October 2008 by Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, who was assisted by Archbishop Mark of… Continue reading A kind of Russia-Cuba detente I never saw coming . . . .