‘Russkii Mir,’ the Russian Equivalent of ‘Blood & Soil’ Ideology at the Heart of Putin’s War, Explained and Rejected by Theologians in New Statement
…e nation against its peaceful neighbor. As Erlanger observes, with Putin, abetted by Kirill, all the old things seem new again; and again, they all seem to be deeply intertwined with Russia’s Christian identity: The idea of Russia as a separate civilization from the West with which it competes goes back centuries, to the roots of Orthodox Christianity and the notion of Moscow as a “third Rome,” following Rome itself and Constantinople. [Timothy] S…
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