Talk:Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society

Mess, needs clarification: autonomy, relation to Putin

"In December 2019, the Israeli Justice Ministry transferred the historical Alexander compound with the Alexander Nevsky Church, Jerusalem to the Putin-allied Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society from the competing Imperial Orthodox Palestine Historic Society, which many commentators linked to negotiating Issachar's release.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Putin to meet with Naama Issachar's mother in Jerusalem |website=[[The Jerusalem Post]] | JPost.com |url= https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/putin-to-meet-yaffa-isaschar-on-thursday-during-his-visit-in-israel-614976 |access-date= 2021-07-12 |archive-date= 2020-12-11 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201211051413/https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Putin-to-meet-Yaffa-Isaschar-on-Thursday-during-his-visit-in-Israel-614976 |url-status= live}}</ref>"

Putin-allied? Then why is it persistently opposing Putin's request of handing over the Alexander Nevsky Church as of 2022? JPost might have misunderstood something. French Wiki has the IOPS split in the 80s from ROCOR and holding on to Alexander Nevsky Church after ROCOR went into communion with the Moscow Church of Kyril & Putin. Needs clarification from the definition (lead) downwards, it's essential. The competing Imperial Orthodox Palestine Historic Society currently led by Nikolai Goffman-Vorontsov (even Google knows close to nothing about him or the IOPHS) must also be introduced and explained. Also, JPost only writes about the land, not the church and compound built on that land. It's in no way the same. Arminden (talk) 07:27, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Here a better article, possibly by someone who speaks Russian, so less distortion through repeated mistranslation: article from Maariv, translated to English. Arminden (talk) 08:28, 20 August 2022 (UTC)