Patriarch Kirill explained the "extinction" of the Kaliningrad region by its proximity to the West
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), Patriarch Kirill, during a visit to the Kaliningrad region, stated that the region’s population is dying out due to its proximity to the West. “For the Kaliningrad region, population loss is a geopolitical problem, because our region is an exclave surrounded, among other things, by states that are hostile to Russia,” he said. At the same time, he welcomed the measures taken in the region to combat abortions.