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Now by nationalistic right-wing figures and clerics and priests in the russian orthodox church, including the patriarch who has a long history of being, to put it gently, very comfortable with the security services and with state power. and was this the putin of 20 years ago? hard to say. i think he misses the soviet union. but that nostalgia for the soviet period has translated into this notion, goaded on by the people around him, that he can restore something even bigger than the soviet union, he can put the russian world back together under the aegis of orthodox christianity. i think he gen...