The Russian president was in attendance at the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in the country’s capital.
Russian president Vladimir Putin attends the Orthodox Easter service at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow
A procession of white-robed clergy circled the vast cathedral, rebuilt in post-Soviet times and widely seen as symbolic of Russia’s rejection of its atheist past, as they swung smoking incense censers and chanted the liturgy. The patriarch this year appeared to steer clear from political pronouncements, unlike last April when he lamented “grave events taking place on our Russian historical land”, referencing Moscow’s military actions in Ukraine and reinforcing the Kremlin’s narrative that Ukrainian statehood is essentially a fiction.
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