Interessante pezzo sulla mentalità russa: il patriarca Tichon, confessore di Putin, sarebbe il produttore di un film su Bisanzio, con molti agganci all'attualità

The views of a ruling elite's inner world are often hard to penetrate. This is especially the case with the Russian elite. Still, it is possible to glean something of Russia's geopolitical vision as held in the mind of former president and now Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

This is because Putin, and very possibly most of the Russian elite, has a peculiar spokesman - Arkhimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov, superior of the Sretensky Monastery in Moscow.

Tikhon befriended Putin a long time ago, becoming, according to rumor, his confessor, and he continues to be close to Putin. When Putin laid flowers on the graves of post-revolutionary emigres …