Draft:Days of Russia in Latin America

Days of Russia in Latin America Дни_России_в_странах_Латинской_Америки On 22 October 2008, in connection with the beginning of the "Days of Russia in Latin America", in which Sretensky Monastery took an active part, Pravoslavie.ru opened the official website of the choir of the Moscow Sretensky Monastery. The site was created in four languages: Russian, English, Spanish and Portuguese.

On 10 November 2010, it was announced that Pravoslavie.ru had registered on the social networks VKontakte, Facebook, Twitter and LiveJournal.

On 28 June 2011, the Serbian version of the portal was launched. The new project was launched on Vidovdan, a Serbian national holiday.

In 2013, the site was blocked in Uzbekistan, but the block was soon lifted.

On 23 November 2015, the new design of the portal with simplified access to materials, new headings and sections (including a media section) was announced. The new site has been designed with mobile devices in mind.

On 6 September 2019, the Greek version was launched.

Recognition
On 17 January 2000, online directory @Rus named the Orthodoxy 2000 site "the best site for new additions."

In December 2003, journalist Ksenia Luchenko assessed the site as follows: "At first it caused a cautious reaction from users because of its hurrah-patriotic and alarmist publications in the style of Russian House (magazine). However, in February 2001 the authors of the site supported the official position of the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission on the issue of INN, and began to publish much more balanced and high-quality materials on other issues. Since then, "Pravoslavie.Ru" steadily occupies the top lines of ratings and has a reputation as the best expert Orthodox resource on Runet. In addition to news and comments on religious and social events, the site regularly publishes historical materials, articles on geopolitics, social issues and culture. Sermons by respected clergymen of the past and present, a "questions to the priest" section, publications by contemporary theologians, patrologists, and apologists, interviews by priests and public figures, and weekly press reviews-all this retains regular readers and attracts new ones."

In 2006, Pravoslavie.ru won fifth place in the popular vote at the Runet Prize, and later dropped out of the competition.

In 2020, Pravoslavie.Ru won the Prince Konstantin Ostrogsky Prize (Poland).

Editorial board

 * Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) is editor-in-chief;
 * Anton Pospelov is the executive secretary;
 * The Hieromonk Ignatius (Shestakov) — editor of the Serbian version of the site;
 * Dmitry Tsypin is head of the Orthodox Calendar project.

In 2006-2011, Alexander Parmenov served as executive editor.

Site statistics
About half a million unique addresses per month access the site. According to Rambler, Pravoslavie.ru remains the most read religious resource of Runet. According to Yandex, it is among the ten most cited resources of the Society section.

According to the 2011 survey "Who, How, and Why to Study the Orthodox World" conducted by the "Wednesday (research service)" research service among 50 scholars of religion, Pravoslavie.ru was ranked third among the top five most visited websites by respondents.