If you want to understand the way that power and faith have changed in Russia, read the story of the arrest of Vissarion, leader of the “Church of the Last Testament.”
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An elderly woman places a candle under a picture of "Vissarion the Teacher", or "Jesus of Siberia", Russian ex-traffic cop Sergei Torop at a church in the remote village of Petropavlovka on Aug. 17, 2009.
