Putin Country Quotes

“advantages to the Orthodox Church, citing it as the source of the nation’s spiritual strength and tradition,”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“She says everyone around her drank or took drugs. She fell into the same pattern and gradually succumbed to despair.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“Evangelicals’ support for Vladimir Putin, his takeover of Crimea,”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“the missionaries still see a growing anti-Americanism among the congregation.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“has to continually battle Orthodox charges that his church is a “foreign un-Russian sect,”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“Mormons would like to cut back on American missionaries and rely more on Russians.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“the Orthodox Church has quietly used its authority to prevent “nontraditional” communities”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“unlike in the United States, there can be no place in Russia for a free market in religious life.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“Pentecostals, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses have come in for particular attack.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“Orthodoxy is our roots, the roots from which our country evolved,”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“agrees that the fates of the church and Russia are inextricably intertwined.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“For him, the resurrection of the church means the resurrection of Russia.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“that the Orthodox Church must be the country’s unifying force,”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“Archbishop Feofan, was appointed with the specific task of raising up the church”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“She misses the surety of Soviet patriotism that she grew up with,”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“President Putin has to walk a fine line with the Orthodox Church,”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“say they don’t actually believe in God.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“Russians now say they are Orthodox believers,”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“his belief that the Orthodox Church is once again little more than a corrupt government asset.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“The Orthodox Church has been central to Russian identity and empire since 988,”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“Those who attended more than ten of the Seventh-Day Adventist meetings received a free Bible.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“In the early 1990s, Chelyabinsk, like the rest of Russia, was flooded with foreign missionaries”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“I would give my life for this country, but this country would do nothing for my wife and child had I died.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“I love my country but hate the government and see no one, no one who can lead us.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“Like every Russian city, Chelyabinsk has an impressive monument to those who died during World War II.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“was killed because he was an ethnic Tatar. Interethnic abuse is common in the military”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“We are always waiting for something bad. If something good happens, we are sure something bad will follow.”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“what she calls “Russian fatalism”: “It comes from our history, from hundreds of years”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“was struck by American ignorance about the rest of the world and Americans’ crude idea that Russia”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

“I am sick of rigged elections. We just know who will win, and we can’t change it. They get rid of anyone who”
― Anne Garrels, Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia