#Russia #WarInUkraine #UNESCO
👉#PutinUnmasked by #CaveMonastery, a 🧵👈

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...that territorial, ethnic, and religious boundaries have been artificially imposed upon an underlying unity. #Kiev occupies a unique position in this framework: simultaneously the symbolic mother-city of Rus civilization, a repository of #Orthodox sacred authority, and a strategic territorial objective whose "return" to #Russian sovereignty represents the restoration of...

#Russia #WarInUkraine #UNESCO
👉#PutinUnmasked by #CaveMonastery, a 🧵👈

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...as a sacred site of reunification and #orthodox identity.

*Essence of #Putin's 2021 essay:*

👉#Putin's treatment of #Kyviv and #KievanRus cultural heritage constructs a narrative of unbroken civilizational continuity anchored in language, #OrthodoxChristianity, and dynastic legitimacy.👈 Cultural artifacts—chronicles, geographical names, ecclesiastical institutions—are enlisted to support the claim...