Patriarch Kirill proposes to increase the amount of funds allocated for the restoration of churches tenfold, since this is a “problem of the state”
June 17, 2011 Patriarch Kirill at a meeting of the working group on restoration objects of cultural heritage of religious purpose, gathered in the Kremlin, with a proposal to “reconsider the principles of financing restoration work on federal target program "Culture of Russia", based on real needs of a particular region. “It is enough to fly by helicopter over Yaroslavskaya region, over part of the Moscow region, to see these terrible wounds, inflicted on our culture, people, state.