Catechism program of the prison inmates of the penal colony #6 in Ryazan region is well under way. Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the prison church on the 5th of October, 2017. After divine service, the inmates attended a lesson on the history of Gospel.

On September 20, 2017, students of Nikolo-Ugreshskaya seminary during English class met a guest from Greece - Thomai Katerli from Greek Orthodox Church, who has been working for Greek visa centre in Moscow for last 6 months.

In XIX century canonizations were extremely rare in Russian Orthodox Church. One of the saints, canonized during this period, was St. Tikhon of Zadonsk, Bishop of Voronezh.

Bishop Afanasy (Sakharov) was one of the most bright figures in the Church's life of the Soviet period. In 2000 he was glorified as the holy confessor.

This year is 55th anniversary of Cuban Misile Crisis of 1962 between USA and USSR, when the world was on the eve of the Third World War. This is an occasion to recall the activity of Nikita Khrushchev, who was at the time the head of the Soviet Union.