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Meeting Protestants in Ukraine

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 May 2025

This entry was posted in Foreign Travel, Russia and tagged A Jesus Mission, atheism, Austria, Battle of Poltava, Bible, Bolsheviks, Catherine the Great, Cheka, Chekists, Christianity, Cold War, Communism, Crimea, Crimean Khanate, Dnipro, Donald Trump, Donbas, Donetsk, Ekaterina II, Enlightenment, Euromaidan, Evangelical Christianity, George Floyd, Germany, Gleb Kopalin, God, Golden Horde, Greek Catholic Uniates, GRU, Habsburgs, Hezbollah, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Hizballah, humanitarian aid, Ignatius Aphrem II, Igor Pilipyshka, Intelligence, Israel, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews for Jesus, KGB, Kharkiv, Kievan Rus, Kyiv Jewish Messianic Congregation, Latin Christendom, Lebanon, Left-Bank Ukraine, Little Green Men, Luhansk, Maidan Uprising, Mariupol, Mercy House, Minsk I, Minsk II, Mongols, NATO, Nazis, Nicodemites, Orthodox Christianity, Ottoman Empire, Poland, Protestantism, Protestants, Prussia, Reformation, religion, religious persecution, Right-Bank Ukraine, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Save One More Life, Second World War, secularism, siloviki, Soviet Union, spies, Stephen Smith, Syria, Twitch, Ukrainian Cyborgs, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, White Angels, Zaporizhiya on May 28, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Jews and the Russian Orthodox Church

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 October 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Adolf Hitler, Albigensianism, Albigensians, Aleksander Men, Alexander Men, Alexy II, Antisemitism, Archpriest John Vostorgov, Émile Zola, Bible, Black Hundreds, blood libel, Bolshevik Revolution, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Catharism, Cathars, Catholicism, Christianity, Church Fathers, Communism, Council of Trent, deicide, Dreyfus affair, Ecclesiastical Collegium, End Times, Enlightenment, fascism, February Revolution, Gospels, Grand Prince Vladimir, Greek Orthodox Church, heretics, Hieromonk Heliodorus, Hieromonk Iliodor, Hilarion of Kiev, Ignatius Brianchaninov, Ilarion of Kiev, Islam, Israel, Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin, Ivan Ilyin, Ivan Sanin, Ivan Sergiyev, Ivan Snychev, Ivan the Terrible, Jews, Jews for Jesus, John Chrysostom, John Iliytch Sergieff, John of Kronstadt, Joseph of Volokolamsk, Joseph of Volotsk, Joseph Stalin, Joseph Volotsky, Judaism, Khazars, Kievan Rus, Kirill, laity, Latin Christendom, laymen, liturgy, Metropolitan John, monasticism, monastics, monotheism, Most Holy Synod, Nestor the Chronicler, Nestor the Hagiographer, New Testament, Nikolai Maikov, Nikon of Vologda, Nil Sorski, Nilus of Sora, Old Testament, Orthodox Church, paganism, Pale of Settlement, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus, Patriarchate, Patristic Era, patristics, perestroika, Peter the Great, Philosopher’s Discourse, pogroms, Pope Gregory X, Pope Innocent IV, Primary Chronicle, Protestantism, Protestants, Pyotr I, racism, Reformation, Renaissance, Roman Catholic Church, Romanian Orthodox Church, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian intelligentsia, Russian nationalism, Russian Orthodox Church, S. Bulgakov, Saint Theodosius, Second Vatican Council, secularism, Serbian Orthodox Church, Sergei Bulgakov, Sergei Michailovich Trufanov, Sergei Trufanov, Soviet Union, Synodal era, Tale of Bygone Years, Tanakh, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Theodosius the Cenobiarch, theology, Ukraine, V.I. Ilyin, V.I. Solovyov, Vladimir Gundyayev, Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Vladimir Solovyov, Vladimir Sviatoslavich, Vladimir the Great, Yuri Tabak on October 10, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Origins of Vampire Stories: When, Where, and How

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 August 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Antisemitism, Arnold Paole, Austria, bloodsuckers, Bram Stoker, caliphate, Catholicism, Central Europe, Christendom, Counter-Reformation, Devil, disease, Dracula, Enlightened despot, Enlightenment, Europe, Flückinger, folklore, Frederick the Great, Frombald, Glaser, Habsburg Empire, Habsburgs, hajduk, Hammer of Witches, Heinrich Kramer, Hell, heresy, Holy Roman Empire, homosexuality, Hungarian disease, Immanuel Kant, Imperialism, Islam, Jews, Johann Friedrich Glaser, Kievan Rus, Kisiljevo, Kucklina, Latin Christendom, Lord Byron, Malleus Maleficarum, Maria Theresa, medieval period, Medveđa, Michael Ranft, Middle Ages, Morbus hungaricus, Nachzehrer, Nazis, Nazism, Norsemen, Orthodox Christianity, orthodoxy, Ottoman Empire, paganism, pagans, Papal Revolution, Petar Blagojević, philosophe, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Prince Eugene of Savoy, propaganda, Protestantism, Romania, Saints, Salem, Salem witch trials, Satan, Satanism, Serbia, siege of Vienna, Slavs, soothsaying, sorcery, supernatural, superstition, The Chewing and Chomping of the Dead in their Graves, The Vampire: Origins of a European Myth, theology, Thiess of Kaltenbrun, Thomas Acquinas, Thomas M. Bohn, Transylvania, typhus, upiór, vampires, vampirism, Vikings, Visum et Repertum, Vlad the Impaler, werewolves, witch craze, witchcraft, witches on August 17, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Did Russia Ever Start a Democratic Transition? Can It?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 July 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged absolute monarchy, Anglosphere, aristocracy, Atatürk, autocracy, black cash, Bolsheviks, Boris Yeltsin, Bulgaria, Captive Nations, Chechnya, Cheka, Cheka Day, Chekists, chinovnichestvo, Christianity, civil liberties, civil society, collectivisation, Communism, corruption, cyber-attacks, Czechoslovakia, dekulakisation, democracy, democratic transition, Dobrarmiya, Duma, East Germany, Ekaterina Schulmann, emancipation, espionage, Europe, far-Right terrorism, Federal Security Service, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Foreign Intelligence Service, FSB, Fundamental State Laws, Gennady Zyuganov, German Democratic Republic, Golden Horde, Homo Sovieticus, ideology, Imperialism, Joseph Stalin, Kievan Rus, liberalism, Mafia, Maria Snegovaya, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mongols, Mustafa Kemal, Narodniki, Narodniks, nationalism, Nichola II, nobility, October Manifesto, organised crime, Pereyaslav Agreement, Peter the Great, pluralism, Pyotr I, Red Army, religion, Right-wing extremism, Romania, Russia, Russian intelligentsia, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Russian Whites, securocrats, serfdom, SIGINT, signals intelligence, siloviki, Socialist Commonwealth, Soviet Union, surveillance, SVR, Terror, terrorism, third wave of democratisation, Tsar, Turkey, Ukraine, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Volunteer Army, Yuri Kovalchuk on July 16, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

A Prop of Autocracy and a Nest of Spies: The Russian Orthodox Church

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 February 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Adolf Hitler, Austria, Bolsheviks, Bulgaria, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Catherine the Great, Cold War, Communism, Constantinople, Germany, Golden Horde, GULAG, Islam, Ivan the Terrible, John Kennedy, Joseph Stalin, KGB, Kievan Rus, Latin Christendom, League of the Militant Godless, Leon Trotsky, Lithuania, Living Church, Mikhail Gundyaev, Mongols, Napoleon Bonaparte, Nazism, Nikita Khrushchev, NKVD, Old Believers, Papal Revolution, Patriarch Kirill, Patriarch Nikon, Peter the Great, Poland, Raskol, Romanovs, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Shuya Memo, Soviet Union, Stoglavy Synod, symphonia, Tatar Yoke, Tatars, Third Rome, Tsar, Tsardom, Ukraine, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Uniate Church, Vikings, Vladimir Gundyayev, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Sviatoslavich, Vladimir the Great, World Council of Churches on February 6, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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