Fair enough. I always kinda thought of Russia as a tangent of Western culture.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Russia is not a Western culture, I would listen to Brendan O’Neil’s interview with Konstantin Kisin.
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Will do.
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Originally Posted by Chris
Definitely not. Orthodox Christianity is not Roman Catholic and never has been (it isn’t Protestant either - it’s been around pretty much since the get-go). There isn’t an Orthodox Pope; the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is nominally in charge but his influence is more or less analogous to the Archbishop of Canterbury in worldwide Anglicanism. This means the territorial Patriarchs of the Orthodox churches have a great deal of personal influence. Patriarch Kiril of the Russian Orthodox has been pushing a quite violently nationalist message that gives some serious legitimacy to what Putin is doing (so far as Russians are concerned anyway).
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The culture and influence derived from Christianity is different to the branches that then followed isn't it?