“Relations between Russia and Georgia have deteriorated through no fault of Russia. After all, despite all the difficulties, before the change of power in Georgia, these relations were built normally. But politicians come and go, but peoples remain, and I think that our peoples are doomed to live together.” , - said Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, deputy head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, on the air of the Ekho Moskvy radio station. This is so far the only reaction of representatives of the patriarchate to the anti-Georgian events in Moscow.