Tag Archives: Russian Orthodox Church

Vladimir Putin attacks the woke West. What game is he playing?

By Jonathon Van Maren On January 19, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin stripped off his [...]

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The Hagia Sophia is a church–regardless of what the Turkish Islamists say

By Jonathon Van Maren The Hagia Sophia is one of the most stunning cathedrals in [...]

Reporting from Putin’s Russia

By Jonathon Van Maren In March, I traveled to Russia to meet with Danish journalist [...]

In Russia: From the Mongol yoke to the Bolshevik barbarians

By Jonathon Van Maren Author’s Note: My first essay in this series on Russian Orthodoxy, [...]

The bloody Baptism of Russia

By Jonathon Van Maren In Russia, everything seems to have a violent backstory. The Cathedral [...]

What they’re saying about the West in Russia right now

By Jonathon Van Maren I’ve now been in Russia since the beginning of last week, [...]

What role does faith play in the standoff between Russia and the West?

By Jonathon Van Maren It is perhaps somewhat ironic that the last time Americans were [...]

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