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In late 2015, Yuri Apatov, the long-time, Moscow-based general-secretary of the “Euro-Asian Federation
of Unions of Evangelical Christians-Baptists“ moved to Israel. Reportedly, a successor has not been named; a convening of its heads is to take place in Minsk in early April. The Federation
was once regarded as the successor of the Soviet-era «All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians-Baptists», for it included all of its national parts except for the Baltic Unions and Georgia.
Yet the war-induced tension between the Ukrainian and Baptist Unions may have sounded the death knell for this Russian-speaking, international Baptist body.
William Yoder, Ph.D.
Smolensk, 3 April 2016
A journalistic release for which the author is solely responsible. It is informational in character and does not express the official position of any church organisation. This release may be reprinted free-of-charge if the source is cited. Release #16-03b.
