St Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine, photo by Petar Milošević via WikipediaBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,033, December 11, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) is experiencing troubles in Ukraine. Areas once considered to be the uncontested territory of the Russian Patriarchate are now becoming autocephalous (independent), adding yet another dimension to the geopolitical challenges Russia is facing in the borderlands of the former Soviet space.
Russian history over the past several centuries was marked by battles over territories running from the Baltic to the Black Sea in the south, then towards the South Caucasus in the east. These are …read more
The Geopolitics of Ukraine’s Newly Independent Church
