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As Moscow tries to keep ex-Soviet republics under its sway, a move by the Eastern Orthodox church has plunged Russia and Ukraine into a contest for Ukrainians’ religious loyalties
By James Marson
When the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church consecrated the first
stone of what is planned to be a towering green-and-gold cathedral
outside Moscow last fall, Vladimir Putin and his defense minister were
front and center for the ceremony.
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