@financialtimes.com I might have thought this review would refer to Volodymyr the Great and Kyivan Rus, (and Peter I and Catherine II) given the wider context of the book.

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The Baton and the Cross — Putin’s cynical co-opting of Russia’s church

Ex-Moscow correspondent Lucy Ash examines the complicity of the Orthodox Church in the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine