RUSSİAN ORTHODOX CHURCH, AN INSTRUMENT İN RUSSİAN FOREİGN POLİCY?
Journal: Vìsnik.
Year: 2023

This article tries to analyze the cooperation between the Russian state and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) from the past to the present. As it will be described below,in Russia, the state has almost everytime had domination over the church. Besides, the Russian Orthodox Church, throughout the history, formed the ideological pillars of Russia’s foreign policy, such as, Russian messianism. The church began to be used as a soft power of Moscow especially during the Second World War. Since then,