Is Ukraine Putin’s Holy War? – The Article April 6, 2022 by Fulcrum The Russian Orthodox Church is undoubtedly important to Putin. His mother may or may not have been a closet Orthodox Christian who had her son secretly baptised. Metropolitan (head of a major diocese) Tikhon, first trained as a screenwriter and friend of Putin, is known for his ultraconservative nationalist theology, his opposition to democracy and support for censorship as well as his promotion of Orthodoxy as the antidote to “Western decadence”. Ian Linden. The Article. 5 April 2022 FulcrumShareTweetShare
