In Mali, Russians and Malian army killed four civilians, then staged a corpse into a swastika: https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/in-mali-russians-and-malian-army-killed-four-civilians-then-staged-a-corpse-into-a-swastika/
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Religion, ideology, & empire in Russia & Ukraine. Analytical, anti-authoritarian, & focused on Orthodox institutions as political actors. No Kremlin propaganda.
Pro-Kremlin social media users are blaming Ukraine for a strike that led to a fire at the Dormition Cathedral in Kyiv, a UNESCO World Heritage site. However, the images they say constitute “proof” were actually AI-generated. https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260625-pro-russian-accounts-fake-proof-ukraine-behind-burning-kyiv-cathedral @France24_en
Pro-Russian accounts share fake proof that Ukraine is behind the burning of Kyiv cathedral
Pro-Kremlin social media users are blaming Ukraine for a strike that led to a fire at the Dormition Cathedral in Kyiv, a UNESCO World Heritage site. However, the images they say constitute “proof” were actually AI-generated.
More on the panels themselves coming shortly on my Substack. https://russiareligionwatch.substack.com/
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Over this past week, the loudest events were televised. The machinery of church-state convergence kept moving through channels that never require a vote: legal-forum panels, synodal rites, prosecutors' letters, and regional licensing pressure.
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The catastrophe story runs on Mendeleev's 1906 projection that the empire would reach ~594 million by 2000: a number from a long-vanished state, deployed as the measure of everything lost. This spectacle is powered by nostalgia for a population that never existed.
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Moskvitina brought the week's most lurid material: "mystery shopper" inspections of women's clinics across 20+ regions, sterilization supposedly sold as contraception. These are self-reported, unverifiable organizer figures supplying atrocities for a catastrophe story.
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The roster brings together Russia's pronatalist apparatus in one studio: demographer Anatoly Antonov, the Health Ministry's reproductive-health chief Oleg Apolikhin, Fr. Feodor Lukyanov of the Patriarchal Family Commission, Pavel Astakhov, Women for Life's Natalya Moskvitina.
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The host, Spas director Boris Korchevnikov, co-founder of the anti-abortion NGO Women for Life, framed the event: "Again, as on 22 June 1941, we must all be mobilized." The war in Ukraine supplies the grammar while the demographic emergency supplies the enemy.
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On June 22, the day Hitler's armies crossed the Soviet border in 1941, Russia's Orthodox channel Spas opened a week of prime-time broadcasting it calls a «специальная демографическая операция» (spetsial'naya demograficheskaya operatsiya, "special demographic operation").
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The Church's biopolitical activity, so extensive in every other sphere, currently ends where military sacrifice begins.
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