Putin also blamed Ukrainian nationalists for attacking the Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine.
Just a few years ago, he was going to the Orthodox Church with his Christian father, and working as a shepherd in the mountains.
Maybe he should try healing the rift with the Orthodox Church instead.
The email was sent in 2012, when Pussy Riot was awaiting trial for their anti-Putin protest at an Orthodox Church.
As the prayer service came to a close, Metropolitan Anthony, the leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America, spoke.
Did you hear about him down to the Orthodox Church fair last week?
Belonging to the Orthodox Church they were attracted by Russia.
He had been brought up in Orthodox Church of England Christianity.
The church, the Orthodox Church alone, is responsible for it.
We began, he says, where the Greek Orthodox Church left off.
