24 October 2024, The Tablet

Putin’s culture wars

by Lucy Ash

Church and State in Russia

Putin’s culture wars

nholy alliance: Oksana Pushkina, inset, campaigned in the Duma for better protections for victims of domestic violence; her efforts were attacked by Patriarch Kirill.
PHOTOS: ALAMY/AP/RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH PRESS SERVICE

 

An alliance between President Putin and Patriarch Kirill is trying to strip Russian Orthodoxy of its spiritual content and use it as a weapon in the war on the West.

 

 

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