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The Symphony is Over? The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Russian Orthodox Church–State Relations
Problems of Post-Communism. 2022. Vol. 69. No. 1. P. 58–70.
Scherbak A. N., Ukhvatova M.
The COVID-19 pandemic seems to have paused the alliance of the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church. When the government announced lockdown measures and demanded that all churches cease services with the public, not all priests agreed to comply. The church-state crisis manifested in two divisions: between the Church and the state, between pragmatists and fundamentalists. We argue that although these cleavages posed a threat to the Patriarchate’s power, the Church managed to maintain the loyalty of most believers. Using individual-level data from the Values in Crisis project, the authors show that the ROC proved its loyalty to the Kremlin.
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