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the gunman is also dead. police have spoken of multiple injuries. now on bbc news its hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. right now, russias war on ukraine is being waged from house to house, town to town in the eastern donbas. the strategy is simple — destroy and then occupy the ruins. but the annihilation strategy isnt restricted to the battlefield. the kremlin is seeking to erase ukraines history, culture and sense of identity. my guest today is the ukrainian raised,...

welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. right now, russias war on ukraine is being waged from house to house, town to town in the eastern donbas. the strategy is simple — destroy and then occupy the ruins. but the annihilation strategy isnt restricted to the battlefield. the kremlin is seeking to erase ukraines history, culture and sense of identity. my guest today is the ukrainian raised, internationally renowned historian serhii plokhy. whats the best response to this weaponization...

to the battlefield. the kremlin is seeking to erase ukraines history, culture and sense of identity. my guest today is the ukrainian raised, internationally renowned historian serhii plokhy. whats the best response to this weaponization of history? serhii plokhy, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. you are a harvard historian. youve lived in the united states for a long time, and yet you were raised inside ukraine. so is it possible for you to bring a dispassionate historian�...

On Saturday evening, the Order of Saint Andrew, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, honored His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, with the Athenagoras Human Rights Award. The annual award ceremony, which recognizes “a person or organization which has consistently exemplified by action, purpose, and dedication, concern for the basic rights and religious freedom of all people,” also coincided with the eighteenth anniversary of His Beatitude’s enthro...

17th century. and then we see the takeover of ukraine by moscow — muscovite state, then the russian empire, and switching and switching centre toward saint petersburg first and then to moscow. what you see happening now is really a major, major cracks appearing in this orthodox unity or traditional unity of the last few centuries, to a degree that the leader of the ukrainian orthodox church under the moscow patriarchate issues an appeal to putin, talking about the sin of gain. so its about rea...

What they hear from patriarch kirill... yes, yes. ..and his support for putin, his blessing of the russian military machine. but, nonetheless, for centuries, in religious terms, ukrainians have looked east. ukrainians looked east, but the east was not in moscow for centuries, but east was in constantinople. thats where the christianity came from. mm—hm. and thats where the jurisdiction was. the orthodox church was under the jurisdiction of constantinople until late 17th century. and then we se...

Last year I got a call from Abbess Yin, an old friend who runs a Daoist nunnery near Nanjing. I’ve always known her as supernaturally placid and oblique, but this time she was nervous and direct: a group of Germans were coming to spend a week learning about Daoist life; could I travel down from Beijing to help? To translate, I asked? No, she said impatiently, to mediate—to