Lucy Ash is an award-winning presenter of radio and TV documentaries. An expert on Russia and post-Soviet countries, she was first sent to Moscow by the BBC in 1990 and has been covering the region's social, political and cultural issues ever since.
The Baton and the Cross is her first book.
For more than a millennium, the Russian Orthodox Church has shown astonishing survival skills - from the Mongol yoke to tsarist demagoguery and enlightenment, from Soviet atheism to the chaotic 1990s. Now again, it is at the right hand of power, sanctifying Vladimir Putin's invasion...
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