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2017/06/14 - 06:28 •
Analysis & Opinion, Culture, Russia, Ukraine
One of the gravest dangers — and potentially most serious defeats –any country combating an authoritarian aggressor is that in the name of defending itself against aggression, it will take steps that will make it resemble in...
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2017/06/11 - 11:01 •
Analysis & Opinion, News, Russia
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
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2017/05/24 - 10:50 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia, Ukraine
The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church routinely says that it has more parishes in Ukraine than does the Kyiv Patriarchate, a statement that it true but that ignores the fact that it has far fewer followers and parishioners...
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2017/05/19 - 12:19 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia, Ukraine
Two pieces of draft legislation about religious organizations in Ukraine scheduled to be taken up by the Verkhovna Rada today will do far more to complete the divorce between Ukraine and Russia than any other step Kyiv has taken so far....
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2017/04/26 - 08:01 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia, Ukraine
Faced with a rising tide of parishes in Ukraine whose members have voted to transfer their allegiance to the Kyiv Patriarchate, the Moscow Patriarchate has issued rules specifying that parishes cannot change from one hierarchy to another...
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2017/04/25 - 11:26 •
Analysis & Opinion
Vladimir Putin has proudly claimed and all too many in the West accept at face value that he is a defender of Christianity and its traditional values. In fact, as a new report released by the University of Notre Dame, the Kremlin is among...
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2017/03/11 - 03:07 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, former head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for relations between church and society, has called for the creation of special death squads to hunt down and destroy emigres who, he suggests, are often...
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2017/02/25 - 12:01 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
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2016/10/15 - 22:34 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Roman Lunkin, president of the Russian Experts Guild on Religion and Law, says that “religious policy in Russia as was the case in Soviet times was given over to the force structures” and that this means the only thing that religious...
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2016/10/08 - 11:55 •
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