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Putin hands out state decorations to clerics
The Russian President handed out medals and spoke without irony of the merits of religion
The Russian President handed out medals and spoke without irony of the merits of religion. Are we seeing a return to the Tsarist era when the Church was the handmaiden of the state?
Also on the programme: women in Kuwait protest as once again they're denied political rights and after an anti-Semitic law in the English city of Leicester is renounced, why aren't the Jews there celebrating?
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