Either give or refuse

“I believe that the Church needs to give everything that belongs to it. But a serious problem may arise here... we, by law, do not even have the right to restore these values,” M. Shvydkoy said on Thursday, speaking at a hearing in the Federation Council of the Russian Federation. “It is impossible forget that, being the heritage of the Church, cultural values ​​are also a national heritage." In Vladimir, for example, in a church, part of which is owned by the Church, frescoes are literally disappearing, but the state cannot intervene in this. According to Shvydkoy, the state must either develop clear conditions for the transfer, or “clearly say that it is impossible to do this for now.”