Putin’s culture wars

26 October 2024, The Tablet

nholy alliance: Oksana Pushkina, inset, campaigned in the Duma for better protections for victims of domestic violence; her efforts were attacked by Patriarch Kirill.

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Church and State in Russia

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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