I suspect the devil is still laughing in Moscow

New churches have popped up everywhere in past decade, like the "Christ the Saviour" church. Hurray - now the largest orthodox church in the world.
My friend used to go swimming there. Not in the church of course. The largest swimming pool in Russia was right there, when Stalin did not get the chance to put a colossal monument of himself here it became a pool instead.
In a rare moment in soviet the kids were the winners. Until someone with $400m burning decided it was time to rebuild the church that had been demolished.

Yeltsin dies the day I visit the church. Good, for me. Since already the next day his burial is held here. Mr Putin and the government cannot wait to get rid of the democratic legacy. Many world leaders invited here would put him in the spotlight again, one last time. Not so much to Putin's taste. Quick burial it is.
So many new churches, but how many who believe in anything but in the gold that decorates them?