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This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Patriarch Pimen I" :

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[edit] Rationale

This is the publicity image, an official portrait of the Church leader released by the Church. to represent a leader to the country to the world. The subject of the article is not alive and taking a free image of him is impossible. The image is not only unrepeatable but also irreplaceable my a generic image that would merely show how the person looked like. This is the official image that shows not just the appearance of the subject but how he and the authority wanted him to be represented.