Category: Orthodoxy
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Putin’s Social Media Pitbull, Dmitri Medvedev, Offers Selective Review of 2024, Late December 2024
In his December 30, 2024 Telegram post, former President of Russia and current Russian National Security Council Deputy Chairman, Dmitri Medvedev, employing his sarcastically perverted sense of humor, engaged in a ‘year in review’ of events. While at times it is unclear to what he was referring, his selective reminiscences of the past year do…
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Putin Ally Dmitri Medvedev Makes Ukraine-Centric Observations From Three Recent Events, Early December 2024
In his December 1, 2024 Telegram post, former President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev, who now serves as the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, addressed “three events at the very beginning of winter” that had caught his attention, which, from his perspective, related to the situation in Ukraine. Medvedev’s post begins below [translated from…
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Conversion of Turkish Peoples Historically to Russian Orthodoxy Serves To Placate Tensions Between Russians and Turks
Russian internet site https://russtrat.ru, which serves as a propaganda organ for the Putin regime, published an article on its ‘analytics’ page addressing the commonly-held misconception that all Turks are Muslims. The Gagauz ethnic Turkic people are cited as a case in point of those who converted to [Russian] Orthodoxy. Also examined are other Turkic peoples…
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Greece And Israel: Discovering Commonalities Through Facing A Common Adversary
The Russian-language newspaper, Каскад/Cascade, published in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 16, 2023, featured an article on its internet site entitled, Greece – Where There Is Everything. Everything, according to the author, includes the Jewish presence in Greece, and specifically, in Thessaloniki/Salonica. Within its eclectic content that ranges from the dilatorious effects of the pandemic and…