Alexy II: The ‘Transitional’ Patriarch
Vladimir Berezansky, Jr., a U.S. lawyer with experience in Russia and former Soviet republics, recalls an interview with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II in 1991. Like many Russians at the time, the Patriarch was coping with a “disorienting change” following the fall of the Soviet Emprie, Berezansky writes. At the time, he seemed e by the changes taking place around him, and he did not know where to begin. “For our entire lives, we [clerics] were pariahs, and now we...