But in the ironies of history (or the strange ways of divine providence) the Ukraine crisis, in which Kirill has been duplicitous and Hilarion mendacious, just might initiate a break in this historic pattern of Orthodoxy playing lap dog to authoritarian power among
the eastern Slavs.
Influenced by this theology of the Church, the Moscow Patriarchate sees
the Eastern Slavs — Russians, Ukrainians, and Belorussians — as one people united by Vladimir's one baptism.
Not exact matches
In Central and
Eastern Europe, in the
Slav countries, Monday is regarded as the first day of the week (ponyidielnyik).
When Constantine - Cyril and Methodius came as Christian missionaries to the
Slavs in the ninth century, they translated not only the Bible but the
Eastern Orthodox liturgy into Slavonic.
The rest of
eastern europeans are just
slavs or balts, nothing asian.
The live voice - over (also known as the Gavrilov technique) is common in
Eastern European television and cinema, and
Slavs and Tatars uses the method in three screenings of screwball comedy films all live - interpreted to German, including that of Polish Seksmisja.
writer NAVID KERMANI discovers the continent's enthusiasm at its farthest edges; historian TONY JUDT tells how the West was an accident; writer KODWO ESHUN and photographer JUERGEN TELLER portray architect DAVID ADJAYE; artist collective
SLAVS & TATARS redeem the East in
Eastern Europe; artist / musician LINDER STERLING makes irony yield to the mythic again; artist MATTHEW BARNEY explores the sexual transmission between man and machine; writer DIETMAR DATH provokes the culture industry's center with drastic arts;
Slavs and Tatars, founded in 2006, is an art collective whose installations, lecture - performances, sculptures and publications contemplate otherwise little - known affinities, syncretic ideas, belief systems and rituals among peoples of the Caucasus, Central Asia and
Eastern Europe.