Patriarch Kirill's game over Ukraine. OSW Commentary No. 144, 14.08.2014
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2014

The protests on Kyiv’s Maidan which commenced in November 2013, followed by the conflict in Ukraine’s eastern regions, have redefined the political and social relations between Russia and Ukraine, and have added complexity to the dependences between the Orthodox Churches operating in the two countries. The Kremlin’s policy has put the Russian Orthodox Church–Moscow Patriarchate (ROC) in an awkward position. The ROC is Russia’s largest religious organisation, which also exercises symbolic soverei