INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
patriotic agenda, according to a leaked video recording.Patriarch Kirill, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, has been a vocal
channel run by exiled Russian church affairs journalist Ksenia Luchenko
She identified the priest as Alexiy Shlyapin from the Moscow region town of Mozhaysk.Shlyapin is a follower of Father Daniel Sysoev, an
influential fundamentalist priest who preached that Orthodox Christianity transcends national identity
Sysoev, who received multiple death threats, was shot dead in November 2009 in what was believed to be a religiously motivated
troops.In 2023, Kirill created a senior ecclesiastical position to oversee church activities in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories
