The Putin Interviews
2017
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Mar 2, 2022 · The outlet told Putin many Americans view Russia as a “godless country.” Highlighting how Putin has often discussed faith, Time then asked, “What role does faith play in your own leadership, and what role should faith play in government and in the public sphere?” The Russian leader’s response was measured.
Mar 31, 2022 · Putin’s religion. Putin was born in Leningrad – a city that reverted its original saint’s name of St Petersburg in 1991 – to an atheist father and devout Christian mother, who baptised him ...
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To Vladimir Putin, Orthodox Christianity is a tool for asserting Moscow’s rights over sovereign Ukraine.In his February televised address announcing the recent invasion of Ukraine, he argued the ...
Feb 27, 2022 · Ukraine and Russia are divided by a common history, both religiously and politically. They trace their ancestry to the medieval kingdom of Kievan Rus, whose 10th century Prince Vladimir (Volodymyr in Ukrainian) rejected paganism, was baptized in Crimea and adopted Orthodoxy as the official religion. In 2014, Putin cited that history in ...
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 ...
Oct 19, 2017 · The rise of the Orthodox Church in Russia appears unstoppable, write filmmakers Glenn Ellis and Viktoryia Kolchyna who went to investigate the close ties between the church and Putin.
Jan 21, 2023 · The head of the Russian Orthodox Church wields enormous influence over more than 100 million believers and is a powerful ally to President Vladimir Putin — nowhere more so than in the ...
