“..For they shall also pray unto the LORD, that he would prosper that, which they give for ease and remedy…” (Sirach [aka Ecclesiasticus] 38: 1-2,4,6-10,12-14)

Glad and joyful tidings have reached our sinful land from the banks of the faraway Seine: on the threshold of the opening of the Year of Russia in France, the Russian Orthodox Church has won a tender for the acquisition of land in the center of Paris, right smack dab next to the Eiffel Tower.

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Three office buildings with an overall floorspace of eight and a half thousand square meters. The sum of the deal, it goes without saying, is not being disclosed (all is the will of God, and verily is this secret great). But, according to the assessments of Parisian experts on real estate, the average price of a square meter in this area comprises 7 thousand euros. And that means, the approximate cost of the entire joyful transaction under the heavens – 59 500 000 euros.