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About Yevgeny Rodionov
- Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Rodionov (Russian: ????´??? ??????´??????? ?????´???; 23 May 1977 – 23 May 1996) was a Russian soldier who was taken prisoner of war by Chechen rebels and later executed in captivity.
- He has gained much admiration throughout Russia for the circumstances of his death, as his execution allegedly resulted from his refusal to convert to Islam and defect to the enemy side.
- Despite widespread popular veneration he has not been glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church as a New Martyr due to lack of evidence about his death, though he was glorified in Serbia.
- Still, icons depicting him are installed in many churches across Russia, in St.
- Valery church in Kishinev, and in a church of Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute in Ukraine.
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