[Boogieman]

Lol, “facts in evidence”, this is not a court.

The claims are not unsubstantiated though:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulcoyer/2015/05/21/unholy-alliance-vladimir-putin-and-the-russian-orthodox-church/

http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/20/putin-solzhenitsyn-kirill-russia-opinions-contributors_orthodox_church.html

http://www.fpri.org/articles/2012/06/russias-state-church

http://sobor2006.livejournal.com/313944.html

[MarMema]

On my Xoom at home today I can only get your last link to come up. The only thing available where I live is WiFi satellite...but I know quite a bit about the story and some of the people in it.
To what church do you belong?

[Mariner]

Symbiosis is not control.

No doubt they share much of the same vision.

But the ROC is clear in they do not want a role in the administration of the State.