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Rev Andrey Kordochkin: Putin and the Church

Rev Andrey Kordochkin: Putin and the Church

The Interview vor 2 Jahren

Stephen Sackur meets an ex-Russian Orthodox priest who spoke out against the Ukraine war

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Vladimir Putin talks of restoring greatness to what he calls the
Russian world: an expanse of territory which, as Ukrainians know
to their cost, stretches far beyond Russia’s current borders.
Putin’s expansionist nationalism requires military power, but
it’s harnessed the cultural and spiritual authority of the
Russian Orthodox Church too. Stephen Sackur speaks to Andrey
Kordochkin, who was a Russian Orthodox priest who spoke out
against the Ukraine war and the "Putinisation" of the church. Is
he swimming against an unstoppable tide?