Tag: Vladislav Maltsev

Belarusian Orthodox Back Away From Declaring Independence From Moscow

January 21, 2015
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, January 21 – After declaring in December that they felt diminished by the fact that Belarusian believers felt insulted by the fact that the Orthodox Church in their country did not have self-administering status, the leadership of the Belarusian exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church has shelved the issue for the next 25 to […]

Refugees From Ukraine Give Moscow a Chance for Ethnic Engineering at Home

August 26, 2014
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, August 25 – The flow of ethnic Russian refugees from Ukraine is giving Russia “a truly historical opportunity to restore the ethnic balance in the North Caucasus Federal District” by reversing the decline in the share of the Slavic population there over recent years and thus defending Russia against the Muslim south, according to […]