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.
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