break when putin came to power because he understood that he wouldn t be able to build a new russia or claim that communism had been albeit just a small mistake in the history of this great nation without getting the church on board with and from that moment on an alliance of sorts was forged at the highest level of power. today the russian orthodox church has returned to its former glory. in twenty seventeen for celebrations to mark the same ten ring of the patriarchates restoration it rolled out all of the pomp and ceremony of an established and institutionalized church. on this occasion carol has invited the primates of fourteen churches who together the fields the docks world. was. was ever