BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 02:11:00
The collapse of the soviet union and the rebuilding of what was to be a modern russia, the church began 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 the notion of russian orthodoxy in their historic and 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 motion orthodoxy offers a kind of civilisational alternative to a decadent ...
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