Originally Posted by Sunset Poet
Originally Posted by JAPOV
Putin is an "Orthodox Christian"... and yes, I believe it influences his decisions.

Putin was KGB going back to E Germany. My understanding is that the USSR was a professed godless state. If he professes to be ROC now, I suspect that is just to gain a political advantage.

Can't be known either way.
Would have to have dinner with him and get him drunk and then ask him...still wouldn't be the truth. Can't have a life like his (ordering murders every week can't be resolved with notions of a Christian life) without ice water in your veins.
Lol... Or, he has simply found a "belief" that suits him.