The head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Hilarion, on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel, criticized the ban introduced by Yandex. Taxi ', according to which there should be no icons in business class cars. According to him, only car owners, and not an aggregator company, can decide whether to be in the salon or not. And on the contrary, “if the car belongs to the company, then it should determine what should be in it” - these are the words of the Vladyka quoted by the business newspaper “Vzglyad” with reference to RIA “Novosti”. Metropolitan Hilarion recalled that a ban on religious symbols is a common practice for the EU countries, but it is hardly worth mindlessly copying it in Russia. “We criticize this idea when it is implemented at different sites in Western Europe, and I don’t think that we should imitate them in this,” he said, because the passenger is hardly embarrassed by the fact that the driver who is taking him - a believer. At the same time, it is quite possible that the introduced Yandex. Taxi 'ban is connected with an isolated case of someone's complaint about the presence of an icon in the car.
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