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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
December 9, 2008
MOSCOW — Thousands of people have been paying final farewells to the late Patriarch Alexy II, who is lying in state in a Moscow cathedral, in tribute to his role in reviving Russian Orthodox Christianity after decades of the atheist Soviet rule.
Despite pouring rain, mourners waited in....