Media & Video — Interviews, Broadcasts, Recorded Talks

Selected recordings

Webinar · 16 December 2025

Religion and Foreign Policy: The Russian Orthodox Church in Global Affairs

Council on Foreign Relations · 66 min

Moderated by Timothy Snyder. With Katherine Kelaidis and Andreja Bogdanovski.

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Panel · 4 February 2026

The Kremlin’s Use of the Russian Orthodox Church in the War Against Ukraine

National Endowment for Democracy · International Religious Freedom Summit, Washington, DC · 89 min

Opens at Sergei Chapnin’s remarks (12:46).

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All recordings

2026

16 March 2026

Interview

Patriarch Kirill on the “royal throne,” monarchist motifs, and the Russian Orthodox Church in Africa

Yevgeny Kiselyov, YouTube · 52 min · in Russian

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24 February 2026

Interview

The theology of war, the punishment of antiwar clergy, and the alliance between Patriarch Kirill and Putin

Yevgeny Kiselyov, YouTube · 62 min · in Russian

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4 February 2026

Panel

The Kremlin’s Use of the Russian Orthodox Church in the War Against Ukraine

National Endowment for Democracy · International Religious Freedom Summit, Washington, DC · 89 min

Opens at Sergei Chapnin’s remarks (12:46).

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15 January 2026

Interview

The SVR statement on Patriarch Bartholomew, the Moscow Patriarchate in the Baltics, and the case against Metropolitan Tikhon’s students

Yevgeny Kiselyov, YouTube · 50 min · in Russian

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2025

16 December 2025

Webinar

Religion and Foreign Policy: The Russian Orthodox Church in Global Affairs

Council on Foreign Relations · 66 min

Moderated by Timothy Snyder. With Katherine Kelaidis and Andreja Bogdanovski.

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18 September 2025

Panel

How the Russian Orthodox Church Supports the Kremlin’s War Against Ukraine

Atlantic Council Eurasia Center, Washington, DC · 76 min

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21 April 2025

Interview

Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill: from the Havana meeting to the war in Ukraine

Yevgeny Kiselyov, YouTube · 67 min · in Russian

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24 February 2025

Interview

Three years of war: division within Russian Orthodoxy and the role of the Russian Orthodox Church

Yevgeny Kiselyov, YouTube (live) · 57 min · in Russian

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2024

11 May 2024

Broadcast

Does Putin believe in God, whom does he imitate, and does he want to be tsar?

Radio Svoboda (RFE/RL) · Grani vremeni with Mumin Shakirov · 32 min · in Russian

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1 March 2024

Broadcast

“We are not afraid!”: thousands at Navalny’s funeral

Radio Svoboda (RFE/RL) · Litsom k sobytiyu with Ivan Voronin · 28 min · in Russian

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16 January 2024

Interview

The Russian Orthodox Church in the post-Soviet space, including Moldova

Teleradio Moldova · 12 min · in Russian

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2023

29 April 2023

Podcast

Former Editor Reveals Russian Orthodox Church’s Ties to Putin and Ukraine Invasion as Sinful

Religion Unplugged (The Media Project) · interviewer Paul Glader

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20 April 2023

Webinar

The Weaponization of Prayer: An Analysis of the Russian Orthodox Military Cathedral

Bishop H. Losten Center for Ukrainian Church Studies (Catholic University of America) · Huffington Ecumenical Institute (Loyola Marymount University) · 91 min

With Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun.

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2022

19 December 2022

Interview

Ukrainian and Russian Orthodoxy, the date of Christmas, and the future of the Moscow Patriarchate

Yevgeny Kiselyov, YouTube · 42 min · in Russian

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25 November 2022

Interview

The UOC and the Moscow Patriarchate, the searches at the Kyiv Caves Lavra, and Ukraine’s two Orthodox churches

Yevgeny Kiselyov, YouTube · 36 min · in Russian

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2021

10 September 2021

Interview

How “Orthodox civil religion” replaces Christian faith

Dmitry Kolezev, YouTube · 76 min · in Russian

A Bulgarian translation appeared on hristianstvo.bg (see Writings).

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2020

11 June 2020

Lecture

Prayer on Zoom

Yeltsin Center · series “The World After the Pandemic” (online) · 52 min · in Russian

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