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Dispatch from the Donbas & why the Russian Orthodox Church backs Putin

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The Role of the Orthodox Church in Russia

Olga Lautman is a senior fellow at the Center for European Policy. She works to connect Syrian groups with Ukrainian groups based on their expertise so we can help document war crimes and all the atrocities happening in Russia, she says. We wanted to talk to you about the role of the Orthodox Church in Russia. There's an article you've written for SIPA which went into quite a bit of detail about what you see as the responsibility and the involvement of the religious establishment in the state.

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