The Nashi movement is holding an action near the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta demanding an apology for “slander of Patriarch Alexy II.”
On February 16, the Nashi movement held a protest action outside the Novaya Gazeta editorial office in Moscow. Nashi accuse the publication of slandering Patriarch Alexy II. The leader of the Nashi Orthodox Corps, Boris Yakemenko, said that on December 8, 2008, Novaya Gazeta published an article "in which it was alleged that His Holiness the Patriarch blessed the war in Chechnya, while in fact Alexy II repeatedly made statements and messages demanding an end to the bloodshed." B.