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4 Oleg ( Cherepanin ), the Abbot, p 3.
5 Vanna D. History of Christianity in Thailand. The thesis of a student of the faculty of foreign students at the St.Petersburg Theological Seminary, Saint-Petersburg, 2008. 239 p.
6 Petrov E. The History of the Orthodoxy in Thailand. The thesis of a student of the 5th course of the Tomsk theological Seminary. Tomsk 2011. 73 p.
We know the book of Jesse Russell and Ronald Koch “Orthodoxy in Thailand”7, that, although released in 2013, has no independent research values, being based on publicly available materials of the mission.
7 Russel D., Koch R. Orthodoxy in Thailand. The publisher VSD, 2013. 109 p.
A source base for the study were the archive materials of the Representation of the Russian Orthodox Churchin the Kingdom of Thailand8; the newspaper “Orthodox Thailand”; an interview with the Archimandrite Oleg (Cherepanin), including available online Internet9; the information and news about Orthodoxy in Thailand, also presented in the Internet ( First of all it is necessary to mention the materials from the site “Moscow Patriarchate, The Orthodox Church in Thailand”10, which contains many important documents including the report on the activities of the Representation, the own observations of the author, expressed earlier in his interview11). The author participates in the life of the Representation since its creation in 1999. In this respect, the narrator is, of course, an interested person, but nevertheless, the present study seeks for the maximum degree of objectivity.
8 The report on the life and work of the Representation of the Russian Orthodox Church in Thailand for 2013.
9 About the Orthodoxy life in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. An Interview with the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in Thailand the Abbot Oleg (Cherepanin) // pravoslavie. ru 16 February 2009; Is it difficult to pray in a tropical Paradise? Talk about Thai Orthodox mission with the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in Thailand the Archimandrite Oleg (Cherepanin) // pravoslavie.ru, July 19th, 2011; Ortodoxy in Thai: Bangkok, Phuket, Samui and then everywhere. The interview with the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in Thailand the Archimandrite Oleg (Cherepanin) // pravoslavie.ru, 28 December 2012; the Archimandrite Oleg (Cherepanin):” Our fundamental position is not to put any pressure and violence upon Thais” // patriarchia.ru 7 August 2013.
10 www.orthodox.or.th/index.php?content=news
11 My path to Christ // Thailand Orthodox. 2013. November.