The Putin Interviews
2017
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Mar 2, 2022 · By Billy Hallowell. Editor. March 2, 2022. What does Russian President Vladimir Putin believe about God? That’s a fascinating question the world can’t answer “with any certainty,” according to Mark Tooley, president of The Institute on Religion and Democracy.
Mar 6, 2022 · Tim Costello. 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...
Feb 27, 2022 · 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 justifying his seizure of Crimea, a land he called “sacred” to Russia.
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...
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Mar 17, 2022 · Religion’s Role in Ukrainian Identity. In President Putin’s long speech preceding the invasion, he alluded to the religious narratives undergirding the battle surrounding Ukrainian national identity. Putin claimed that Ukraine is “an inalienable part of our own history, culture, and spiritual space.”
Mar 21, 2022 · Vladimir Putin speaks to Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill (center) in Samolva, Russia, on Sept. 11, 2021. Alexei Druzhinin/Pool Photo via AP. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the...
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’. Nostalgic...
