Free Republic

Reaching for Religious Reunion By Lawrence A. Uzzell Unlike Poland and the Baltic states, Russia lacks a key source of "soft power": a united body of ethnic expatriates who can be relied on to support the mother country's policies in places like Washington. But this could change in the very near future. Moscow may bring into its sphere of influence what used to be a key ideological base for the Kremlin's emigre foes, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, or ROCOR. The Kremlin and the domestic, Kremlin-dominated Russian Orthodox Church could gain a new seal of moral and historical legitimacy...