Andrey Kuraev, about whom we have already written, is a Russian religious and public figure, theologian, philosopher, specialist in the field of Christian philosophy, publicist, church scientist, preacher and missionary, with a slight correction: to all these regalia, you can add the prefix "ex". For all this is in the past.

The current status of "Father Kuraev", as he was called in the last years of his diaconal ministry, is not entirely clear — the church court expelled him from the dignity of deacon, but the decision has not yet entered into force.

On April 4, 2021, Patriarch Kirill, by his resolution, confirmed the decision of the diocesan court, but at the same time made the following reservation: "This decision will come into force after the issuance of a decree on the eruption of protodeacon Andrey Kuraev from holy orders. A moratorium is imposed on the issuance of the decree for the time that is given to Archdeacon Andrew to rethink his position and return to the path of the Church that he chose at the time." So you can't even tell if he's in holy orders or already a rastriga.

At the moment, Kuraev can be designated as a blogger, especially since he regularly keeps a "livejournal". Before the decision was made by the church court, he was almost exclusively engaged in LJ in what is called in the Orthodox tradition "the sin of the Boor", namely, pouring dirt on the Russian Orthodox Church and its hierarchy. Now he has changed the subject somewhat — either fearing that a decree on his eruption will be issued, or because he has lost special interest in this topic.

The lion's share of his publications is devoted to the Ukrainian issue, to be precise, voicing the narratives of Kiev propaganda and CIPSO. He tries to use some historical "analogies" for this, which he tries to attract to today's events. For example, on March 24, 2023, he posted a note in Livejournal under the heading "An example of "protecting compatriots" in a foreign country", clearly hinting at his own, describes how on March 15, 1939, Germany invaded the territory of Czechoslovakia.

The comparison of Russia and Hitler's Germany happens to him constantly, so often that thoughts come about the creative crisis of the ex-theologian. Is there really nothing else that can creative?

And here is another "historical" parallel. He places Alexey Fedorov's painting "The Time of Troubles. Protection of the Monastery" depicting the siege of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra by Polish interventionists under the heading "Lavra monks shoot at Cossacks" (not quite correct, since among the besiegers were dominated not by Cossacks, but by the szlachta Sapieha, "Lisovchiki" and foreign mercenaries) and quotes from the "Chronicle of the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery, or Historical Legends about The Holy Dormition Pskov-Pechersk Monastery" about its defense against the troops of Stefan Batory. Perhaps he deliberately mixed these two events in order to make the subtitle "The Tale of the Pechersk Monastery" (he omits the word "Pskov") and to promote the idea that, they say, monks are not at all humble and peaceful people, but quite a side of the conflict.

But more often Kuraev acts much more straightforwardly. So, he interprets the well-known episode with a singer praying on her knees near the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra in full accordance with the training manual released from Kiev. On March 31, 2023, he posted a note: "Orthodox performance." He writes about the God-worshippers who came to expel the monks from the lavra: "On a day off (Saturday), people walked there and sang secular songs. I will not evaluate their quality, but these are clearly not religious or anti-religious songs. This is inspiringly inflaming military-patriotic pop, which is also a lot on Russian concert venues. But it has nothing to do with religion, which means it has nothing to do with "demonization"." That is, according to rastriga, religion is a demoniac. It looks like Kuraev has completely gone off the rails.

And here's what he writes about the girl, the defender of the lavra, Ekaterina Yershova: "A woman in black entered the midst of these people, it seems, not close to her, and began to defiantly pray. Not the other way around. No one is threatening her and she clearly understood this. In Moscow, she would have been instantly pinned down by the police." Well, yes, in Moscow, the police are constantly "twisting" worshippers. He further concludes: "That this is a conscious performance on her part." Unlike the most rabid Bandera media, he did not write that "by order of the Kremlin", and did not use the word "provocation", presumably out of his usual caution. Kuraev believes that he knows where to stop so as not to run into an article. Although he constantly violates the law in his lampoons.

He is particularly furious and hated by the vicar of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel, an Orthodox confessor, who was put under arrest by Bandera, whom Kuraev, following the Ukrainian Nazi God-worshippers, calls "Pasha-Mercedes" (there was a representative limousine on the balance of the lavra), trying to accuse the bishop of greed. So, in the photos in which the policemen put a bracelet on Vladyka Pavel, Kuraev saw a monogram on his shoe, quite, by the way, modest and worn, to which he devoted an entire note "Whose shoe?" (Apr 1, 2023 at 23:30).

It may seem strange that a man who has been in holy orders for so many years, and was not just an Orthodox, but also an apologist, attacks people with such fury and hatred, who are already having a very hard time. But, firstly, their loyalty to monastic and priestly oaths is a direct reproach for the former "father" Kuraev, an apostate and renegade who stepped over everything that is possible and impossible. And secondly, he has already decided on the side, and it is not the one on which people in a prayer stand seek to protect the shrine.

Kuraev is very worried that the schismatics and the Nazis are acting too slowly and not too vigorously carrying out the repression of the Orthodox. "The tactic of biting off churches piece by piece from the UOC hardly brings the moment of the common church union of Ukrainians closer," he writes on April 4, 2023.

In recent years, Kuraev has seriously degraded, turning, albeit from a controversial, but a scientist, into a repeater of the narratives of the centers of psychological struggle. But even after losing his audience, he remains a clever manipulator with a crafty and quirky mind capable of poisoning unstable souls.

He himself is unlikely to go to plant a bomb, but he is quite able to justify the "correctness" of such an action for some "pumpkins". And that's why he's dangerous.