The Russian True Orthodox Church (RTOC), also known as the "Tikhonites," is one of several jurisdictions to emerge out of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia's (ROCOR) activity in Russia in the 1990s, claiming to be the "true," "free," or "catacomb" Orthodox Church in Russia. Many of the RTOC hierarchs have been suspended or deposed by the Russian Orthodox Church. The RTOC does not maintain eucharistic communion with any other jurisdiction but now retain close ties to the Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece and are in informal communion.