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Alexis Mrachek: How Putin uses Russian Orthodoxy to grow his empire

By Alexis Mrachek, Shane McCrum.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia (C) visit the Saint Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athos, in Karyes on May 28, 2016.
Photo by AFP

When Vladimir Putin rose to the presidency of Russia in 2000, he inherited the remains of a once-fearsome communist-atheist imperial state.

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