Nikon Belavenets

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Father Nikon Belavenets (Russian: Иеромонах Никон (Белавенец); born 1 July 1964 in Moscow) is a hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church, and leader of the Russian nationalist and royalist organization For Faith and Fatherland.

Nikon was born as Sergey Vladimirovich Levachyov-Belavenets (Сергей Владимирович Левачев-Белавенец). In 1982-1986 he studied at the Moscow Auto Road Institute but was discharged for his participation in churcj servises by Metropolitan Pitirim. In 1986 he was admitted to Zagorsk seminary. He also worked as an assistant to Pitirim and as an editor of Moskovsky Tserkovny Vestnik, the newspaper of Russian Orthodox Church (since 1991 he is the vice chief editor of the paper.

23 April 1992 he became a monk and was named Nikon. Since July 1992 he is the chief priest Joseph Volotsky Monastery in Volokolamsky District, Moscow Oblast.

He took part in the defence of White House, Moscow during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis.

In 1998 he organized and led the organization For Faith, Tsar and Fatherland that after request of the Department of Justice of Russia was forced to drop Tsar from its name and became For Faith and Fatherland.

• In 1999, Belavenets spoke out against NATO's actions in the Balkans.^[1]

• Reporting from 2001 stated that Belavents had been suspended as a priest.

• In 2005, Belavenets and his organization petitioned the Duma to change the names of various Moscow locations to their pre-Soviet names.^[2]

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• Valeria Korchagina and Andrei Zolotov Jr.It's Too Early To Forgive Vlasov The St. Petersburg Times. 6 Nov 2001.
• Alexander Verkhovsky Religious Factors in the Parliamentary Election Campaign of 1999 Panorama (Russia)

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