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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Megan K. Stack / The Bulletin
December 6, 2008
MOSCOW — Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II, the iconic religious leader who restored the church from a post-Soviet shell to an institution of privilege and power, died at his Moscow home Friday. He was 79.
The imposing, white-bearded Alexy had held the Russian Orthodox....
