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What does Russian President Vladimir Putin believe about God? That's a fascinating question the world can't answer "with any certainty," according to Mark Dooley, president of The Institute on Religion and Democracy.
Religion, even were Putin not religious himself, has a very clear and obvious instrumental value in meeting those goals. This instrumental use of the Church has been seen on a number of occasions both internally and, increasingly, externally.
During his first term in office, Putin opposed some of the Yeltsin-era business oligarchs, as well as his political opponents, resulting in the exile or imprisonment of such people as Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky; other oligarchs such as Roman Abramovich and Arkady Rotenberg are friends and allies with Putin.
Putin’s religion. Putin was born in Leningrad – a city that reverted its original saint’s name of St Petersburg in 1991 – to an atheist father and devout Christian mother, who baptised him in...
Putin's Religious Policies. Buddhism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are defined by law as Russia's traditional religions and a part of Russia's historical heritage. These religions have enjoyed limited state support in the Putin era. [#672]
Speaking of Vladimir’s mass baptism, Putin explained: “His spiritual feat of adopting Orthodoxy predetermined the overall basis of the culture, civilisation and human values that unite the peoples of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.”
Putin and the ‘triumph of Christianity’ in Russia. The rise of the Orthodox Church in Russia appears unstoppable, write filmmakers Glenn Ellis and Viktoryia Kolchyna who went to investigate ...
