The head of the Barnaul diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and the acting chief bailiff of the Altai Republic signed a cooperation agreement

At the end of June 2010, Bishop of the Barnaul diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Maxim and Acting Chief Bailiff of the Republic of Altai Vitaly Erler signed a cooperation agreement. bailiffs and clergy plan to hold a joint explanatory work in the structural divisions of management.

The agreement provides that priests in sermons will "instruct citizens about unacceptability of the principle of life on loan, the philosophy of money-grubbing, consumer attitude to life and to people, since non-return according to church rules, debts are equated with the appropriation of someone else's, i.e. theft." Sources

• In the Republic of Altai, representatives of the church during worship will tell parishioners about the sin of non-repayment of debts // RIA Siberia. 2010. June 29.