and today my guest is professor alexei svetozarsky, head of the department of church history of the moscow theological academy , alexei konstantinovich hello, glad to see you. i a-a watched a few of your well open for viewing lectures on youtube and hmm you are interesting in detail. tell us about the history of the russian orthodox church and it is always interesting to see some kind of secular political context. and at some turning points in the history of the church. here, as it seems to me, we are now witnesses of the present historical moment. right now. a not there a couple of years ago, when there was a church split. it then seemed to me synthetic so artificial, and today it seems that all this is already acquiring quite such hmm visible forms, that is a certain abscess disappeared, which has been brewing for a long time , or i'm mistaken here. and you think that just what is happening in ukraine today is so artificial. but the real one was just before. well, the fact is that hmm, all these beginnings of development and planting splits, and they, uh, went in parallel with the acquis