BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 03:10:00
To revive and many of the ex—communists were looking for ways to establish what russian identity meant in a post—soviet period and so they went back to their notion of russian orthodoxy and their historical religion, not only because it was sort of the birth—spring of their civilisation as they understood it, but also because it wasn't western, and soon the russian narrative even among secularists like putin is that russian orthodoxy offers a kind of civilisational alternative to a decadent west, and so putin and his government invested heavily in the church as a means to an end, as a wa...