Russia allocates funds for repair of Serb holy places

The two million dollars which Russia allocated for the restoration of Serb Orthodox churches and monasteries in Kosovo have been transferred to the contractors.

Izvor: Tanjug

Thursday, 02.08.2012.

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PRISTINA The two million dollars which Russia allocated for the restoration of Serb Orthodox churches and monasteries in Kosovo have been transferred to the contractors. This was confirmed by an employee of the regional UNESCO office for the Itar-Tass news agency. Russia allocates funds for repair of Serb holy places He said that restoration works had started in the monasteries of Pec, Visoki Decani and Gracanica. The Church of Our Lady Leviska near Prizren, which was the worst hit in the anti-Serb pogrom launched by ethnic Albanians in the March of 2004, is also being renovated. The Russian funds will be spent on the repairs of facades and restoration of frescoes. The contractors include two Italian and one Serbian company that won a bidding last year. The works are expected to be completed by May 2013. In 2010, then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an instruction to allocated funds to Serbia for the restoration of Orthodox relics in Kosovo. More than 150 Orthodox monasteries and churches have been destroyed or seriously damaged in Kosovo over the years since the war. The Devic monastery (file) Tanjug

Russia allocates funds for repair of Serb holy places

He said that restoration works had started in the monasteries of Peć, Visoki Dečani and Gračanica.

The Church of Our Lady Leviška near Prizren, which was the worst hit in the anti-Serb pogrom launched by ethnic Albanians in the March of 2004, is also being renovated.

The Russian funds will be spent on the repairs of facades and restoration of frescoes.

The contractors include two Italian and one Serbian company that won a bidding last year. The works are expected to be completed by May 2013.

In 2010, then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an instruction to allocated funds to Serbia for the restoration of Orthodox relics in Kosovo.

More than 150 Orthodox monasteries and churches have been destroyed or seriously damaged in Kosovo over the years since the war.

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