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The Gods of Hypocrisy Are Angry But the Pope and Patriarch Are Shtum
•�July 28, 2024
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On Mount Olympus, the ancient Greek one, there was no god of Hypocrisy. That’s because all of the gods were, starting with Zeus himself, the king of the gods. It is the same in Paris, as the organiser of the state ceremony of the Olympic Games has claimed the performance of a caricature of the... Read More
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Life During Wartime – On the Road in Donbass
•�February 13, 2024
•�2,700 Words •�98 Comments • Reply
Pepe Escobar embarked on a journey across Donbass to share his thoughts on the many first-hand encounters with the locals, who show unbreakable resilience. It’s a cold, rainy, damp morning in the deep Donbass countryside, at a secret location close to the Urozhaynoye direction; a nondescript country house, crucially under the fog, which prevents the... Read More
Russia from the Right
An Interview With Alexander Porozhnyakov of the “Tsar’s Cross” Movement
•�July 30, 2022
•�2,200 Words •�17 Comments • Reply
Alexander Porozhnyakov is a young, conservative grassroots activist in Russia. He’s been in the wider right-wing movement for a decade, which makes him a veritable veteran of right-wing Russian politics. He runs a media project called “Tsar’s Cross” that promotes Orthodoxy, Russian nationalism and criticizes Liberals in both civil society and the government. We met... Read More
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A Purge in the Russian Orthodox Church
The Great Russian Restoration X
•�June 21, 2022
•�2,700 Words •�183 Comments • Reply
The Russian Orthodox Church has been affected by recent events as much as the rest of Russian society has. Now, more than ever, the Church is being asked to support the government and this has had ripple effects on church politics. The biggest story is the unceremonious demotion of Metropolitan Hilarion. Once the Russian Orthodox... Read More
Clash of Christianities: Why Europe Cannot Understand Russia
•�April 29, 2022
•�1,400 Words •�35 Comments • Reply
Under an ubiquitous, toxic atmosphere of cognitive dissonance drenched in Russophobia, it’s absolutely impossible to have a meaningful discussion on finer points of Russian history and culture across the NATO space – a phenomenon I’m experiencing back in Paris right now, fresh from a long stint in Istanbul. At best, in a semblance of civilized... Read More
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The Kremlin’s Post-Soviet State Ideology
The Great Russian Restoration VII
•�March 29, 2022
•�2,300 Words •�89 Comments • Reply
Many pundits and analysts have pointed out that Russia doesn’t seem to have a visible political/economic/state ideology and they are correct to do so. That being said, the Kremlin civic platform has always been quite basic and straightforward. The Kremlin’s official civic platform is based on three pillars: sport, Orthodoxy and World War II. As... Read More
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A Byzantine View of Russia and Europe
•�March 10, 2022
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So wrote Oswald Spengler in Prussian Socialism, published in 1919, between the two volumes of The Decline of the West. In the latter, Spengler also predicted that after the collapse of the “Faustian West”, a new civilizational force would arise in Russia. The Faustian West opposes this with all its might. But whatever happens, the... Read More
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Deconstructing Islamophobia
•�November 7, 2019
•�5,900 Words •�597 Comments • Reply
Introduction: a short survey of the cuckoo's nest My initial idea was to begin with a definition of "Islamophobia" but after looking around for various definitions, I decided to use my own, very primitive definition. I will define Islamophobia as the belief that Islam (the religion) and/or Muslims (the adherents to this religion) represent some... Read More
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Orthodox Faith: Yvonne Lorenzo Interviews the Saker
•�October 4, 2019
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I recall a saying of the twentieth century that neither religion nor politics are to be discussed in polite company. Cat
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The Ukrainian Orthodox Schism
•�November 23, 2018
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The Russian world is caught up in a drama. Its leading Orthodox Church faces a schism over the Ukraine’s drive for its own independent church. If Kiev regime succeeds, the split between Russia proper and its breakaway Western part, the Ukraine, will widen. The Russian Church will suffer a great loss, comparable to the emergence... Read More
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The Empire Splits the Orthodox World – Possible Consequences
•�October 19, 2018
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In previous articles about this topic I have tried to set the context and explain why most Orthodox Churches are still used as pawns in purely political machinations and how the most commentators who discuss these issues today are using words and concepts in a totally twisted, secular and non-Christian way (which is about as... Read More
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The Abomination of Desolation Standing in the Holy Place
•�September 28, 2018
•�4,000 Words •�117 Comments • Reply
Warning: the following text was written specifically to help Christians make sense of the “hijacked vocabulary” used in the discussion of the current attempts by the Empire to take control of the Orthodox people of the Ukraine. For atheists/agnostics this discussion will offer just some irrelevant and boring mumbo-jumbo with no relevance to the lofty... Read More
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Why Orthodox Churches Are Still Used as Pawns in Political Games
•�April 27, 2018
•�5,500 Words •�85 Comments • Reply
First, a disclaimer: today I am going to touch upon a subject which is intensely painful for me and which will get quite a lot of my readers angry at me. Frankly, I did everything I could not to discuss this issue on the blog, because I know, out of my personal experience, that discussing... Read More
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Three Churches’ Summit
•�April 21, 2016
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As the Russian Easter approaches – it will symbolically coincide this year with May Day – it is the right time to speak of a very important recent spiritual event that received too little publicity in the West, but it kept Russia all agog. This was not an Oscar nomination, after all. Two old men,... Read More
Diverging Strategies on Religious and Anti-Gay Bigotry in Russia and China
•�August 14, 2013
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For readers seeking insight into the atavistic creepiness of the institutionalized anti-LGBT bigotry of the Russian state—which is eliciting calls to boycott the Sochi Winter Olympics--I offer below a reposting of an article I wrote in 2011 and updated in 2012 on Vladimir Putin’s efforts to position himself as the champion of Russian Orthodox religious... Read More
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