President Putin's remarks on the subject were made in a film commemorating the 70th birthday of Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Say what you want about the man Putin, but this overall trend in Russia, in fact, is what is driving the leftist, globalist, social-engineering, “multi-culti” left to view Russia as enemy #1.
That’s why you EXECUTED the XZAR and hisentire family for jst being Non-Communst.
Link to article.
Russia was always our ally until the abberation of 1917.
It’s time to recognize the Cold War ended and we won.
Never doubt that Putin is a murderous autocrat.
However, he is having a broadly and generally positive impact on the world. And the US would do well to find some common interests.
He is not Stalin or Hitler. He is an authoritarian you can do business with.
For those who have kindle and are interested in Russia, I would highly recommend ‘The Russo-Turkish War’ by Grant Barnwell. It is a ninety nine cent download. https://www.amazon.com/Russo-Turkish-War-Grant-Barnwell-ebook/dp/B00LIH88JY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1479664990&sr=1-1#reader_B00LIH88JY
The book was written in the late 19th century by R. Grant Barnwell, a northern American whose interests also encompassed American evangelism, as found in his “Life of Moody and Sankey, the American Evangelists: Together with Scenes and Incidents of the Revival in Great Britain”.
To the point with Russia, the first half or more of his history of the war with Turkey is purely about Russia. It traces the origins and the development of the people and nation, the rise and ideology of the Czars, the culture and in very great detail - the religion, and how Russian Orthodoxy both tolerates and limits other religions.
The book is well worth the read for the cultural history alone, and the odd thing that needs serious thought which I have not seen in any serious, formal scholarship is this: Russia today has more in common culturally with 19th century Czarist Russia, than it does with 20th century Soviet Russia.
A further point worth considering when wondering at Russia skittishness towards the West - especially with Europe - is that the catastrophic Marxist and Communist ideologies which so devastated Russia, are Western imports. That cancerous strand of thought is alive and flourishing in the West still, as the histrionic EUniks and anti-Trump rioters and propaganda machines prove every day.
Russia has ample and good cause to be guarded when considering what influences will be encouraged within the still traumatized and sickly - but recovering - nation.
Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!
Nonsense. Instead what you have is a religious mafia. Putin has just done what real liberals would love to do to Christians:
Russia's Newest Law: No Evangelizing Outside of Church | Gleanings ...
Thousands fast after Putin signs law banning evangelism outside of ...
Russia had "already moved to contain foreign missionaries. The “foreign agent” law, adopted in 2012, requires groups from abroad to file detailed paperwork and be subject to government audits and raids. Since then, the NGO sector has shrunk by a third, according to government statistics.
“In Moscow, we shared an office with 24 organizations. Not a single foreign expatriate mission is there now,” Rakhuba previously told CT. “They could not re-register. Missionaries could not return to Russia because they could not renew their visas." It is next to impossible to get registration as a foreign organization today.” http://www.christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2016/june/no-evangelizing-outside-of-church-russia-proposes.html