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Why is the Russian Orthodox Church silent?
Archpriest Andrei Kordochkin* on political prisoners, exchanges and the role of the church in the conditions of the Northern Military District and repression
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Archpriest Andrei Kordochkin* in the Novaya Gazeta studio. We discuss why the Russian Orthodox Church does not actually recognize the existence of political prisoners, whether the church can influence the humanization of politics and the release of prisoners, and how the position of the Moscow Patriarchate differs from the position of the Vatican and the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
A separate conversation is about the commandment “thou shalt not kill,” about attempts to justify violence by religion, about the concepts of “holy” and “just” war, and also about how the boundaries between good and evil are blurred.