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The Story of Russia, with Orlando Figes

Intelligence Squared

CHAPTER

The Russian Orthodox Church and Religion in Russia

You write and feel that the West has got quite a lot wrong about Russia, or misjudged various things about Russia in recent decades. One of the things that you write a lot about is religion, and it strikes me that that's probably one of the things we do sometimes misunderstand about Russia. Tell me a little bit more about the role the Russian Orthodox Church and religion is playing in this war.

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