| January 2012 |
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This year’s Christmas, which according to the ancient Julian calendar falls in the Russian Orthodox Church on January 7, was full of important messages, including the church’s elaborated position on the tense political situation in the country following the December parliamentary elections and the ensuing mass protests against alleged electoral fraud.

Once upon a time, modernity was seen as a period when religion would disappear from public life. Yet nowadays, in the Spirit of the Times, it is clearly back. Or has never left. Globally, and especially in the former Soviet Union - the foremost case of what came to be known as desecularization.