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TRIP TO TAJIKISTAN part 1 I was born in Tajikistan. We left in 1981 and I didn’t visit it since. I felt ashamed for not visiting it for 30 years, although there was a chance. THORNY ROAD My tickets were via Riga, Latvia. I didn’t even know whether my flight will take off because there was a general strike in Greece till 12:00. I received an sms message from my agency that I should call them to check the flight. I was calling and nobody answered. So I went to the airport without any information whether the flight will take off, but everything went on fine, the flight took off, finaly. However when we approached Riga we were told that the airport is closed because of emergency landing of one of the planes. So we landed in nearby Lithuania. After half an hour we were told that everything is OK, Riga airport is open, so we landed at Riga. Half of the plane were transit passengers and lost their flights, as did I, lost my flight to Dushanbe. In the airport we formed a line to the central office of Air Baltic where everybody received his hotel and tickets for new flights. The company made a very intricate route for me, after two days I had to fly Riga – St. Petersburg – Dushanbe. So I had one day to spend in Riga. Actually I was happy because except Tajikistan I could have a walk in European cities.
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UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES Our Abbot and Elder Archimandrite Dionysios was present at the enthronement of Metropolitan Jonah of OCA. Metropolitan asked him to send some monks and nuns from our monasteries in order to develop monastic life in USA. Because of that I even took a release note from Church of Greece to OCA. Recently I visited United States and met Metropolitan. Finally it was decided to start something in Oklahoma. There is no Monastery there, only a small church of Sts. Cyrill and Methodios. But staying and serving there it would be possible to find a place for the Monastery and to build it later on. It was necessary to come back to Greece, to continue to work upon the monastic constitution, to see who else will come etc. Few years ago I became a citizen of Greece and now I was called to serve my military service. Before there was a law releasing all clergy of the military service. But now, it’s several years now, there is a new law obliging all citizens to serve. So I am in this category now. According to the law the priest wearing the priest’s clothes, do not cut his beard or hair and serving as a secretary or a car driver. I have a honor and a blessing to serve exactly in the military unit, where our Elder, Archimandrite Dionysios served in 70’s. There he built a church of 12 Apostles, it is there till now. Now I have some time of vacation, so I could write this note
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