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The Geopolitical Chessboard: the significance of “Sviataia Rus’”in the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Federation’s approach in the conflict with Ukraine.
By Amir Nassar Introduction Parallel to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the intense war that followed, there is an ongoing religious-jurisdictional cold war between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in Moscow (also known as the Moscow Patriarchate) and the Orthodox Church(es) in Ukraine (OCU). In this context, a dispute over the Ukrainian State-owned grounds…