Andriy Chirovsky, Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies
Vol. 59 (2018) Nos. 1–4, pp. 1–10.
The religious situation in Ukraine, overtly tense since the early 1990’s, has entered an extremely interesting stage, part of a three-vectored issue that involves Constantinople, Moscow, and Kyiv. The Russian Orthodox Church has often been a tool of the Russian state, whether in the hands of the tsars, the commissars, or the new, bare-chested star of the Kremlin.
After the fall of the USSR and the ideological vacuum that this created in Russia, this Church was again pulled into an intimate relationship with the Kremlin, especially under Vladimir Putin, to offer a conservative and nationalist vision known as “Russkiy Mir:” in English, the “Russian World.”1
After the fall of the USSR and the ideological vacuum that this created in Russia, this Church was again pulled into an intimate relationship with the Kremlin, especially under Vladimir Putin, to offer a conservative and nationalist vision known as “Russkiy Mir:” in English, the “Russian World.”1
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