Coronavirus-denying, ex-con Russian priest requires Putin to step down or face “full-blown non secular warfare”

A Russian priest who seized management a convent, denies the existence of Covid-19, and criticized church management, has now referred to as for Vladimir Putin to resign and switch to him the place of Russian President.

Shiigumen Sergius, who was lately defrocked in response to his criticism of the Orthodox Church’s coronavirus measures, appealed to Putin in a YouTube video printed by his private spokesman Vsevolod Moguchev. Sergius warned the president that he should resign his put up and switch it to him or face beginning a “full-blown non secular warfare.”

“Watch out: there will likely be no blood, no maidan, no revolution,” he stated. “You’ve got had a 20-year time period to indicate who guidelines Russia. I’ve the ability and the power to declare to you, Mister President: surrender your powers.”

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“Three days, and I will restore order in Russia,” he declared.

Sergius additionally directed criticism on the Russian Orthodox Church chief, Patriarch Kirill, and at Russia’s chief rabbi Berel Lazar, explaining that their “days are numbered.”

In June, the rogue cleric was banned from preaching, following his claims that coronavirus is a “pseudo-pandemic,” and that the church’s management was managed by the “the atheistic authorities.” Through the top of Covid-19, Russian church buildings had been closed to stop the unfold of an infection. Sergius additionally claimed on many events that the pandemic was an excuse to microchip the general public.

Earlier than turning into a priest, Shiigumen Sergius was a policeman, and has additionally served 13 years in jail for homicide.

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