The Putin Interviews
2017
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With religious rhetoric, Putin taps into a long tradition that imagines a Greater Russia extending across present-day Ukraine and Belarus, in a combined territory known as Holy Rus’.
Feb 9, 2022 · December 9, 2018. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times) In the case of Vladimir Putin, the soft pull of the two countries’ shared Orthodox Christian religious identity was converted into a sharp attack intended to enhance Moscow’s religious supremacy and serve Putin’s geopolitical aims.
Mar 17, 2022 · Putin’s claim reflects a commonly held interpretation of the history of Orthodox Christianity in Russia. According to this view, Russians and Ukrainians are one people who originate from the same Christian kingdom that came into being in the 10th century.
May 21, 2022 · The Russian Orthodox Leader at the Core of Putin’s Ambitions. Patriarch Kirill I has provided spiritual cover for the invasion of Ukraine, reaping vast resources for his church in return. Now ...
Feb 29, 2024 · Religion is used as a justification for integrating many areas of the former Soviet Union into a recreated imperial structure with, once again, Russia, and specifically the Kremlin, and the Moscow patriarchate at its center.
Mar 21, 2022 · Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the eruption of conflict in the Donbas in 2014 also had an enormous impact on the Russian Orthodox Church. Ukraine’s Orthodox churches remained under the ...
Apr 3, 2022 · Putin doesn’t strike most of us as the pious type. He wears a £10,500 coat, reportedly owns a £500 million superyacht and is known the world over for vaguely homoerotic, topless photoshoots ...
