The Putin Interviews
2017
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Mar 2, 2022 · Putin sees himself as a ‘messianic figure’. All this in mind, it’s easy to see why Putin and the state are so interested in religion, particularly when it comes to Ukraine. Harry Farley of the BBC recently said Putin views himself as a “messianic figure, a savior, to reunite Eastern Orthodox churches under Moscow.”.
Mar 6, 2022 · The Russian president’s Orthodox faith is central to his worldview but he has used it to justify invasion and violence in God’s name. Sat 5 Mar 2022 14.00 EST. With Russia invading Ukraine, its...
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 in...
Feb 27, 2022 · Ukraine’s tangled political history with Russia has its counterpart in the religious landscape, with Ukraine’s majority Orthodox Christian population divided between an independent-minded group based in Kyiv and another loyal to its patriarch in Moscow.
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...
Feb 16, 2022 · Putin and the Orthodox Church: how his faith shapes his politics. In light of recent events around Ukraine, we are re–sharing this extract from The Mighty and the Almighty (2017) in which Ben Ryan considers Putin’s unusual symbiotic relationship with the Orthodox Church. 16/02/2022. Biography.
Mar 17, 2022 · Putin claimed that Ukraine is “an inalienable part of our own history, culture, and spiritual space.” Putin’s claim reflects a commonly held interpretation of the history of Orthodox Christianity in Russia.
