Russian church will become more politicised
Orthodox leaders are so bound to the Russian state that they are losing congregations in Ukraine
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- Symbiotic relationship
- Faith as identity
- Setting the moral tone
- Secular support for church
- Worldly wealth
- Foreign policy role
- Waning support in Ukraine
- Ambassadorial function
- Eastern churches meet
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_350.jpg "President Vladimir Putin with Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill at the Kremlin in Moscow (Reuters/RIA Novosti/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin)")