A Meduza feature reporting an RBC investigation by journalists Svetlana Reiter, Anastasia Napalkova and Ivan Golunov into the Russian Orthodox Church's commercial income, finding a 2014 untaxed profit figure but no total wealth figure, and stating that reliable data on how the Church spends its money does not exist.
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Citation
AuthorSvetlana Reiter, Anastasia Napalkova and Ivan Golunov (RBC investigation, reported by Meduza)
PublisherMeduza, reporting an RBC investigation
Publication Year2016
URLhttps://meduza.io/en/feature/2016/02/24/how-much-is-the-russian-orthodox-church-worth
Source Typejournalism
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Tier 2: named investigative journalists' findings on a specific, dated figure (2014 untaxed commercial profit), the strongest documented number available precisely because the Church publishes no accounts; the investigation itself states plainly that no total wealth figure could be established. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Russian Orthodox directly: "Napalkova and Ivan Golunov into the Russian Orthodox Church's commercial income, finding a 2014 untaxed profit figure but no total wealth figure, and stating that reliable data on how the Church..."
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- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Denominations, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
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