On November 7–8, the Russian Center for Science and Culture (RCSC), or Russian House in Nicosia, will host an event called Cyprus Ignite 2025 — The Transforming Fire Conference. The organizers promise «spiritual awakening,» «prayer for revival,» and «healing sessions.»
Preachers from charismatic communities whose practices border on the occult will take the stage. These include the «Assembly of God’s Victory» and related structures known for their ecstatic rituals that are alien to the Orthodox canon. Charismatic worship services with emotional music and collective «worship.» Joint prayers for «spiritual revival.» Sermons by self-proclaimed «apostles» — figures whose titles in Orthodoxy sound like blasphemy. «Healing» sessions with demonstrations of «miracles» and calls for «spiritual power.» Practices of speaking in «unknown languages,» prophecies, and rituals of «exorcism» — elements based on African shamanic rites, far removed from Christian canons.
At first glance, it appears to be a harmless gathering of fanatical followers of non-traditional religious movements.
But a logical question arises: why does a center representing the Russian state and supposedly created to promote Russian culture and science provide its platform to religious sects that have nothing to do with culture, science, or traditional Orthodoxy? Especially those whom the Russian Orthodox Church itself considers heretics and pagans, and whom the Russian state persecutes and bans.
Russia calls itself a bastion of «true Christianity» and a guardian of «traditional values,» loudly denouncing the «sectarians of the corrupt West» and tirelessly preaching about «Orthodox bonds» and «spirituality,» but in reality it remains a barbaric pagan country.
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), hiding behind the image of the guardian of the Christian faith, has long ceased to be a church in the spiritual sense. It is part of the power structure created during the Stalin era to control the masses and suppress independent religious thought.
In 1943, Stalin revived the patriarchate not out of love for God, but to strengthen control over the population and gain ideological support in the war against Germany. The ROC was created as a branch of the special services and remains so to this day. Today, the patriarchate is a tool of the FSB, SVR, and GRU. The church serves as a channel of influence, intelligence, and legalization of agents abroad under the pious cover of the church.
The patriarch blesses war, and priests report to the leadership of the special services on the loyalty of parishioners. Russian «Orthodoxy» has nothing to do with authentic Christianity—it is a syncretic mixture of Byzantine rites, imperial mysticism, and state propaganda.
Despite publicly kissing icons, the modern Kremlin elite are increasingly fascinated by occult and esoteric practices: shamanism, astrology, and the mysticism of the «northern tradition.» Vladimir Putin, according to numerous accounts, is fascinated by mysticism. Kremlin oligarchs and officials, imitating their leaders, organize sessions of shamanism, witchcraft, exorcism, and dancing with tambourines.
The director of the Russian Cultural Center in Nicosia, Alina Radchenko, copying the hobbies of the «top leadership,» is herself fascinated by shamanism. We discussed this in detail in our article «Dancing with Tambourines in Nicosia» where Radchenko appeared as an enthusiast of «spiritual practices» far removed from Christianity.
In this context, the Cyprus Ignite event at the RCSC fits perfectly.
It is no coincidence that the Russian Cultural Center is hosting this forum. Russian houses abroad are not created for culture and science. All Russian houses abroad are agent centers of the Russian special services engaged in espionage and recruitment of agents. Every event here is coordinated with Moscow. If the Russian Cultural Center in Nicosia allows sectarians to hold a two-day event there, it means that the Russian special services consider them to be «their own.»
There are two options: either the Russian Cultural Center initiates contact to check the participants’ suitability for recruitment, or contact has already been established and the event is being used as a cover for working with agents.
In any case, the sectarians from the «Assembly of God’s Victory» are not a threat, but allies. This group has «apostles» and «pastors» who are masters at gaining trust, gathering information, and weaving networks of contacts under the guise of «prayer meetings.» There is no doubt that such activities undermine the influence of the Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus and strengthen Russia’s influence.
Apostle of the Assembly of God’s Victory
Paradoxical, but true: under the emblem of Rossotrudnichestvo, an organization formally responsible for promoting Russian science, language, and culture, today’s activities do not include lectures on Tolstoy or Mendeleev, but rather shamanistic dances in a pseudo-Christian setting.
This is no accident, but a symptom: Russia is no longer capable of exporting culture, science, or faith. It exports war, death, lies, disinformation, Russian fascism, and fanaticism. And it does so methodically, under the control of those who, since Stalin’s time, have turned religion into an instrument of state security.
Russia is not a bastion of Christianity, but an empire of evil spirits, where the tambourine sounds louder than the bell.