Vladimir Putin suffered one of his biggest defeats in the long war for Ukraine this week. It came not on the battlefields of Donbass but in the venerable offices of Patriarch Bartholomew I, the archbishop of the city still known in the Orthodox Christian world as Constantinople.
The Globe and Mail: Ukraine’s split from Russian Orthodox Church puts a dent in Putin’s image
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Orthodox Patriarch Kirill (L) attend a ceremony to mark the 1030th anniversary of the Christianisation of Russia in downtown Moscow on July 28, 2018.
