The Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Esphigmenou, Archimandrite Bartholomew, proceeds to a new complaint regarding the Russian penetration on Mount Athos.
According to a post on the monastery’s Facebook page, Archimandrite Bartholomew states that “despite the complaint in April 2022 and the related attempt to challenge by various, Russians continued to “canonically” raise Russian flags on Mount Athos.”