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Al Jazeera
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Mansur Mirovalev

‘God of war’: Russian Orthodox Church stands by Putin, but at what cost?

Russian army's soldiers, singers of orthodox choir, perform on Orthodox Christmas eve in a church near the village of Arsaki, northeast of Moscow [File: Pavel Pavlov/Reuters]

A masked, uniformed, gun-toting soldier has the letter Z, a Kremlin-approved symbol of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on his shoulder.

Jesus Christ, frail and devoid of aggression, is portrayed right behind him.

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