At a time when the Moscow Patriarchate seeks to present itself as the primary basis of Russian identity and Orthodoxy as the definer of Russian attitudes toward autocephaly in Ukraine, polls show that Russians don’t view religion as central to their identity and are remarkably indifferent to what is taking place in Ukraine, Andrey Melnikov says.
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The vicar of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (Kyiv Monastery of the Caves), Metropolitan Pavel of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) gives a press briefing on Nov. 30, 2018.
