MOSCOW — At a meeting Feb. 23 in Moscow, Alexei Vasilevich Smirnov was elected secretary and head of the Public Council. Although Smirnov is pastor of a congregation belonging to the Association of Brethren Congregations in Dedovsk near Moscow, he has also served as director of the pastors department of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists since 2006. He will…