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USA, Russia, Orthodoxy & The Ukraine Schism – Jim Jatras

 Jim Jatras returns to discuss the history of espionage and geopolitics as it relates to Ukraine, Russia and Orthodoxy in the USA.  We cover the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Cold War espionage, ‘KGB Bishops,’ persecution, CIA and expatriates, the present state of Moscow and the West and the new Cold War as it […]
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Top 5 DIFFERENCES: Roman Catholicism Vs Orthodoxy

Is it all about the papacy? No! The top differences definitely include the issue of the papacy, but there are more fundamental doctrinal and dogmatic issues that come before the Roman Pontiff. In fact, the Vatican I doctrine really is based on mistakes relating to the Trinity and the Holy Spirit (Filioque), which conditions the […]
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The most dangerous thing about Coronavirus is the news about it [Video]

Over the last ten days, I have been watching and reading the news from the US on the coronavirus spike of late, trying to find any sensible pattern or reasoning behind it. Since I live in Moscow, where we are down to a daily reported new infection rate in the 500’s to 600’s, life has largely returned to normal, but the news from the United States appears to scream of a “second wave” that will be far worse than the first one.

Russian Constitutional reform affirms God, tradition and the course ahead [Video]

The July 1st referendum, or election, regarding the approval of the Russian Constitutional reform, has come and gone. It yielded interesting results, though, thank God, it yielded the right ones for the nation. Overall, a very strong majority, 77.92% of the voters approved the changes, and 21.27 opposed them. The voter turnout is understood to be moderately high by Russian standards, with some 65% of citizens voting in the extended time period made available by early voting.

75-Year Victory Day celebration over a Russia in quarantine [Video]

One cannot resist thinking that this Victory Day scene is a bit post-apocalyptic. The sight of the yearly military air parade over Moscow was a welcome sight as I watched several formations of fighter planes and a single Tupolev bomber fly over my home in southeastern Moscow. Tuning in to RT’s “Ruptly” service online yielded a video presented here in full: