Church and State

Jacques Chirac, Vladimir Putin and Gerhard Schröder. Saint Petersburg, 2003

Church and State

Russia and Europe: A Unity That Cannot Be Lost

"We Russians have two motherlands: our Rus and Europe — even when we call ourselves Slavophiles." Fyodor Dostoevsky (A Writer's Diary, 1876)

Irina Mironova · August 31, 2026

Vladimir Putin at the exhibition “Peter I. The Birth of an Empire,” marking the 350th anniversary of the tsar’s birth, 2022.

Church and State

Russia and the Fear of Chaos: Is a Return to Europe Possible Without a Radical Change of Elites?

Irina Mironova · August 28, 2026

Peter I raises his cane at Alexander Menshikov — a nineteenth-century engraving.

Church and State

Peter the Great, the New Russia and the Old Russian Question: Who Distorts the Designs of Reformers

Irina Mironova · August 24, 2026

Vladimir Putin among world leaders at the St Petersburg summit, 2006

Church and State

Russia and Europe: Who Put Putin’s Historic Mission in Jeopardy?

Irina Mironova · August 21, 2026