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https://www.aoiusa.org A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:45:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/review-the-second-russian-revolution/ https://www.aoiusa.org/review-the-second-russian-revolution/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:28:28 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12036 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Belows is the review I wrote of Leon Aron’s new book Roads to the Temple: Truth, Memory, Ideas, and Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution, 1987-1991. It is a great read and I recommend it highly. It chronicles Glasnost, the period of awakening in Russia from around 1987-1991 that, Aron argues, was a […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/review-the-second-russian-revolution/feed/ 22 https://www.aoiusa.org/russia-profile-weekly-experts-panel-another-attempt-to-get-russia-into-nato/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russia-profile-weekly-experts-panel-another-attempt-to-get-russia-into-nato/#comments Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:36:26 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7684 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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For those of you interested in this type of thing, the Russia Profile site has a symposium that examines Russian’s relationship with NATO. Most of you will remember that NATO was used to declare war on Serbia (the first time America went to war with an ally; the first time American troops were placed under […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russia-profile-weekly-experts-panel-another-attempt-to-get-russia-into-nato/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/russia-helps-kosovo-orthodox-church/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russia-helps-kosovo-orthodox-church/#comments Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:28:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7105 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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HT: Orthodox News | Source: The Voice of Russia Under a document signed by Vladimir Putin, Russia will allocate 2 million dollars to reconstruct Orthodox monuments in Kosovo. The Prime Minister ordered to finance this work as a voluntary fee for the UNESCO for 2010 and 2011 allocated from the federal budget. Here are more […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russia-helps-kosovo-orthodox-church/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/lithuania-defies-eu-to-promote-family-values/ https://www.aoiusa.org/lithuania-defies-eu-to-promote-family-values/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:43:57 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5348 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Some European nations are resisting the secularist and statist over-reaching of the EU bureaucracy. The article mentions the Russian Orthodox Church’s criticisms of EU cultural aggression and its overtures to the Roman Catholic Church in resisting it. Article from Mecator.net. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Sidestepping critics, Baltic nation strengthens family-friendly law on public information. Lithuania lawmakers ended their […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/lithuania-defies-eu-to-promote-family-values/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-responds-to-u-s-state-dept-report-on-religious-freedom/ https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-responds-to-u-s-state-dept-report-on-religious-freedom/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:36:21 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4950 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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In late October, the State Department released the 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom, a study annually submitted to Congress. Remarks on the study by Michael H. Posner, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, are available here. (The country report for Turkey is available here.) The Russian foreign ministry said, on publication […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-responds-to-u-s-state-dept-report-on-religious-freedom/feed/ 14 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:44:26 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4486 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM2qq5J5A1s[/youtube] Twenty years ago today. The following is from “The Origin of Russian Communism” by Nicholas Berdyaev (published by Geoffrey Bles, 1937): Marxism is not only a doctrine of historical and economic materialism, concerned with the complete dependence of man on economics, it is also a doctrine of deliverance, of the messianic vocation of the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-bartholomew-turkish-government-wants-to-wipe-us-out/ https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-bartholomew-turkish-government-wants-to-wipe-us-out/#respond Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:17:18 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=739 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Asia News reports that the Turkish Foreign Ministry has issued a new report “which denigrates the ‘minority’ presence of the Greek Orthodox community in Turkey, and refuses to recognize the ‘ecumenical’ character of the ancient patriarchate.” It seems that the Turkish foreign ministry is trying to make the patriarchate “disappear,” continuing to call Bartholomew I […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-bartholomew-turkish-government-wants-to-wipe-us-out/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/kosovo-prelude-to-georgia/ https://www.aoiusa.org/kosovo-prelude-to-georgia/#respond Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:32:15 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=81 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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In yesterday’s Washington Times, James George Jatras looks at the unintended irony in Washington’s opposition to the expected Russian recognition of an independent Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the wake of the Bush Administration’s support for an independent Kosovo. Jatras, an advisor to AOI, asks: If Moscow stepped over the line in its crushing military […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/kosovo-prelude-to-georgia/feed/ 0