Meet Vladimir Putin’s newest weapon: a church. The Russian military plans to build a military church to bolster the spiritual values of its armed forces. Construction will soon begin of the Main Church of the Armed Forces, to be erected in Patriot Park outside Moscow, according to Colonel General Andrei Kartapolov, deputy defense minister and chief of the armed forces’ Main Military-Political Directorate, a new organization responsible for political education of the troops.
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An Orthodox priest and a Catholic priest walk past newly acquired Russian-made Mi-8MTV-5 helicopters during a turnover ceremony at a military base outside Minsk on Nov. 28, 2016.
