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#375075 - 01/31/12 12:05 PM No longer idyllic between Putin and Patriarchate. At least in app
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No longer idyllic between Putin and Patriarchate. At least in appearance.

by Nina Achmatova
Asia News
1/31/2012

The Prime Minister and presidential candidate seems to have distanced himself from the Church, that holds out its hand to the anti-government protest movement. Experts: "This is just a strategy, the hierarchy can not do without the support of power."

More at http://www.asianews.it/news-en/No-longer...nce.-23840.html

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#375087 - 01/31/12 02:12 PM Re: No longer idyllic between Putin and Patriarchate. At least in app [Re: Tomassus]
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Or perhaps the Church senses that Putin is on the skids and is determined to be on the right side of history this time.

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