The move comes as the long-running tensions between the two churches exacerbated amid Russia’s war in Ukraine. Ukrainian Minister of Culture Oleksandr Tkachenko said Thursday that the Dormition Cathedral and the Refectory Church of the nearly 1,000-year-old Pechersk Lavra — also kn...
Second, the dedication of cathedral to the "Victory in the Great Patriotic War" integrates the Church into this key national narrative and simultaneously incorporates elements of the Soviet past into Russia's "sacred memory". Third, the involvement of the Patriarchate and the Kremlin in mutual ...