It has been one of the stranger political pivots in a generation. Once the heart of the officially atheist Soviet Union, Russia has now managed to position itself in the minds of many of the world’s most conservatives as a guardian of traditional Christian values and society. Its branding coup for the ages has been made possible in no small part because of the alliance forged between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus (a medieval title that seeks to assert the Moscow Patriarch’s primacy among the Slavic…
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