"In recent years, the Moscow Patriarchate has built or planned churches in countries as diverse as Spain, Malaysia, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates.
In 2007, it reunited with the New York-based Russian Orthodox Church Abroad whose founders had fled Bolshevik rule almost nine decades previously.
It has also retaken possession of older Russian Orthodox churches in Nice on the French Riviera and in Bari, Italy, that passed into local ownership after the Soviet revolution in 1917."