Moscow's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Czech Republic's chargé d'affaires, Jan Ondrejka, the day after the arrest, by Prague authorities, of Metropolitan Hilarion, bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, on charges of drug possession. Moscow's Foreign Ministry expressed a

Police in the city of Karlovy Vary, Czechia, stopped a car on 24 May carrying Russian Metropolitan Hilarion, who heads the Czech branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, and found…

Metropolitan Hilarion categorically denies any involvement in the illegal possession of prohibited substances