Putin’s mortality and public restiveness over Russia’s chronic economic stagnation require that the regime find a basis for legitimacy other than nostalgia and revanchism over losing the Cold War and seeing the USSR dissolve. Traditional Russian Orthodox Christianity is the only plausible option. Yet violent gangsters taking up such garb does not make them into Christians or Russia into a Christian nation.
Amen.
The guy who posted this thread has a love affair with Putin and that’s pretty terrifying.