Please don’t get it twisted. I am a Christian and I want nothing to do with *godless* Putin hijacking a beautiful culture and wrapping his agenda in counterfeit Christianity.
He and his ex KGB plus oligarchs cronies have hijaked Russian Orthodoxy too.
Please don’t apply the same “conservative” and “liberal” labels to this issue. Goes much deeper than that.
It goes to the split between those who see Russia as different, the Third Rome, the mother of Orthodox and Slavic culture and those who want Russia be more Western and European in outlook.
That’s a debate far from settled and while the collapse of Communism restored Russian statehood, the ultimate question of Russia’s direction remains open.