Category: Russian Orthodoxy
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An Examination of the Phrase “The Lord’s Day”
Among the more important phrases that we need to consider regarding the cacophonous cataclysm that will take place at the end of time [Please cf. https://the-dragon-is-slain.com/2024/12/03/the-roar-of-war-the-roar-of-death-and-the-roar-of-victory-the-eternal-sons-roar-was-heard-once-and-will-be-heard-once-more-are-you-ready/ ] is found in the very beginning of the book of Revelation, where John describes the setting for what he was about to write at the behest of the…
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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 Portrays SMO as a Spiritual Endeavor in Victory Day Speech, Early May 2024
President of Russia Vladimir Putin, on May 9, 2024, once again used the occasion of the country’s Victory Day celebration as a bully pulpit to denounce the “Western elite” (i.e., the countries of the U.S.-led NATO alliance) for encouraging the former Soviet bloc countries to seek independence, in the wake of which monuments, memorials, and…
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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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“We Have Faith, They Have Religion”
Thus Russtrat director, Elena Panina, begins her May 5, 2023 opinion piece in which she reasons that Russia will prevail in Ukraine because the former is united under the rubric of ‘faith,’ i.e., that ‘God is on our side’ because of the justness of the cause under the banner of which the SMO [Special Military…
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Dostoevsky and the [Russian Orthodox] Church
This is a translation, from the Russian, of a 3-part article by Vladimir Malyagin, an author and dramatist who serves on the publishing council of the Russian Orthodox Church. The reader is invited to engage in a critical review of the author’s commentary, remembering that it is the viewpoint of an apologist of Russian Orthodoxy,…
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Book Review: Russia in Search of Itself by James Billington
An American scholar with a deep interest in Russian culture, particularly as it relates to the country’s Christian heritage as expressed through Russian Orthodoxy, James Billington was perhaps the foremost chronicler of Russia and its history for over 40 years. Billington first appeared on my radar in the mid-1970s while I was studying Russian Language…
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Christian Humanism – A Panacea for the Russian Condition?
In his editorial, In the Power of Murky Intuition, Autocratic Russia is Losing the Instinct of Self-Preservation (https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/125354824/posts/4359682819 for my translation), Russian intellectual Aleksandr Tsipko addresses Russia’s propensity, because of its authoritarian power structure, to “eternally intrud[e] into the world of the unpredictable.” This tendency, he argues, is based on an autocratic leader’s irrational intuition,…
The Dragon is Slain 