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Michael Bourdeaux
Michael Broudeaux is the founder and director emeritus of the Keston Institute in Oxford, England.
Border lands: Unrest north ofAfghanistan
One of the objectives of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent pro-Western diplomacy is to reduce instability along Russia’s southern borders....
March 27, 2002
Russian renewal: The complex face of Orthodoxy
When he became president of Russia last year, Vladimir Putin disclosed that “when I was serving in the KGB in Germany, I always wore a cross under my shirt.” Whether or not one believes...
April 4, 2001
In sacred groves: Paganism revives in Russia
In the forest shrine, the meat of two rams and a goat cook in great cauldrons suspended from wooden frames. Cloth belts stained with the blood of these sacrificial animals hang from the trees....
October 18, 2000
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