The President of the Russian Federation, the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Problem of Spiritual Authority

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Notes

1. See M. Lerua, Mif ob iezuitakh. Ot Beranzhe do Mishle (Moscow: Iazyki slavianskoi kul’tury, 2001), 19–81.

2. Kh.G. Kaskales, Sviatoi Antonii Mariia Klaret. Chelovek, boriushchiisia za svoe prizvanie (Krasnoyarsk: Claretianum, 2006), ch. 5 (www.claret.ru/cbzsp.html).

3. See S.L. Firsov, Nikolai II (Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 2010), 261–283.

4. See Z. Svetova, ‘Sechin v riase .’ Kak Tikhon Shevkunov stal galvnym ideologom rossiiskoi reaktsii (Credo.Press, May 15, 2018), credo.press/216911.

5. Arkhimandrit Tikhon (Shevkunov) i otets Nikolai (Gur’ianov) ob INN (vystuplenie na radiostantsii “Radonezh” 29 ianvaria 2001), https://bit.ly/2UhBNc2.

6. Besedy s batiushkoi. Desiatiletie so dnia konchiny otsa Ioanna Krest’iankina (Pravoslavnyi telekanal “Soiuz,” February 5, 2016), https://bit.ly/2xhM3rI.

7. See A. Chausov, “Arkhimandrit Ioann Krest’iankin: o chem on razgovarival s Putinym,” Kirillitsa (May 12, 2018), https://bit.ly/2vHQECS; D. Loginov, “Prorok. Prezident. Prorochestvo,” Institut bogosloviia russkoi severnoi traditsii (November 14, 2013), https://bit.ly/2UdKLXy.

8. V. Pushkarev and S. Erzhenkov, “Kto—on ‘dukhovnik Putina,’ chto ego na samom dele sviazyvaet s prezidentom, i kak s ego podachi moglo nachat’sia delo Serebrennikova,” Telekanal Dozhd’, November 15, 2017, https://bit.ly/3ahzR8X.

9. See “Pamiatnik A.I. Solzhenitsynu otkryli v Moskve k stoletiiu pisatelia,” Russkaia vera (December 12, 2018), https://bit.ly/3bh8MCK.

10. “”Skhiarkhimandrim Ilii (Nozdrin): Vopli, kotorye razdavalis’ na Bolotnoi ploshchadi, iavliaiutsia proiavleniem nanavisti k nashemy Otechestvu,” Pravoslavie. ru (December 23, 2011), https://bit.ly/2WF4bGl.

11 See M. Rubin, P. Badanin, Iu. Luk’ianova, and M. Zholobova, “Kremlevskii starets. Rasskaz o tom, kak rossiiskaia vlast’ uvleklas’ mistitsizmom,” Proekt (May 29, 2019), https://bit.ly/2wybl4J.

12. See: O. Vandysheva, “Dukhovnoi nastavnik Svetlany Medvedevoi, protoierei Vladimir Volgin: ‘U suprugi prezidenta est’ nravstvennyi sterzhen’,” Komsomolskaya pravda (May 15, 2008), https://bit.ly/2WHstQ6.

13. “Prezident Rossiiskoi Federatsii Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin posetil Valaam,” Monastyrskii vestnik (April 24, 2014), https://bit.ly/2Ja5VPU.

14. “Putin ne znaet ‘bolee svetlogo mesta,’ chem Valaam,” RIA Novosti (April 30, 2014), https://bit.ly/3arYpvK.

15. See: “V Rossii budut sozdany novye dukhovno-prosvetitelskie tsentry,” Pravda.ru (November 28, 2014), https://bit.ly/2wpdjED.

16. A. Kamakin. “Griadushchaia vstrecha patriarkha s papoi rimskim vozmutila pravoslavnykh radikalov,” Moskovskii komsomolets (February 11, 2016), https://bit.ly/398WGKA.