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The volume offers a comprehensive analysis of Church-State relations in post-Soviet Russia, with particular reference to the external relations of the Russian Orthodox Church. The book investigates the impact of the appointment of Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad - now Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' - as head of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations (DECR), and his contribution to strengthening this branch of the Moscow Patriarchate. It further provides an in-depth analysis of the ecclesiastical crisis in Ukraine, the division of the churches, and the process leading toward unification and the creation of a Ukrainian national church, exploring the implications of this process for the foreign policy of the Russian Federation.
The volume offers a comprehensive analysis of Church-State relations in post-Soviet Russia, with particular reference to the external relations of the Russian Orthodox Church. The book investigates the impact of the appointment of Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad - now Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' - as head of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations (DECR), and his contribution to strengthening this branch of the Moscow Patriarchate. It further provides an in-depth analysis of the ecclesiastical crisis in Ukraine, the division of the churches, and the process leading toward unification and the creation of a Ukrainian national church, exploring the implications of this process for the foreign policy of the Russian Federation.
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