Ideological Pillow and Strategic Partner: The Russian Orthodox Church and the War

Elsner, Regina

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@article{ Elsner2022,
 title = {Ideological Pillow and Strategic Partner: The Russian Orthodox Church and the War},
 author = {Elsner, Regina},
 journal = {Russian Analytical Digest},
 number = {286},
 pages = {2-4},
 year = {2022},
 issn = {1863-0421},
 doi = {https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000576071},
 urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-86973-3},
 abstract = {On 21 February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin made unmistakably clear what many in the region had feared for months: He would take Ukraine by force of arms. One of the reasons he gave in his speech was that the Ukrainian government was systematically persecuting and oppressing Russian-speaking and Russian Orthodox people. Putin thus appropriated Orthodox believers in Ukraine as part of his narrative of the Russian sphere of influence threatened by the West. Why does religion play such an important role in this war? And why can Orthodoxy not be expected to play a peacemaking role therein?},
 keywords = {Russland; Russia; Ukraine; Ukraine; Krieg; war; orthodoxe Kirche; Orthodox Church}}