On September 8, 2000 - 9:00 p.m. CNN aired a program in which the president of Russia, in India, once again demonstarted that he is ***NOT*** an Orthodox Christian...

On October 3, being in India, RF-president Putin and his wife took part in a pagan rite -- the placing of a wreath on the spot where the spiritual father of the Hindu nation, Mahatma Gandhi, was cremated. As the newspaper "Komsomol'skaya pravda" ["The Truth Of the Young-Communist League"] noted, "Before placing the wreath, the Putins, as custom demands, took off their shoes and put on white slippers. The entire Russian delegation followed their example." (!!) The president of Russia declared in an interview conducted by CNN Broadcasting that he believes not in God, but in Man, yet he conscientiously imitates "the Orthodox Faith" in the churches of the Moscow Patriarchate, and also actively participates in masonic and pagan mysteries (for example, he was initiated into "knighthood" by the Grand Master of a certain [masonic] Order in Germany; and, while, in North Korea, he ritually worshipped the deified leader Kim il Sen). In India, Putin once again confirmed the fact of his total lack of any religious sensibility, since rituals of this sort -- participation in which he could easily have declined -- are incompatible with Orthodoxy, as was convincingly proved by Aleksandr Nevskii and Mikhail of Chernigov, [two] previous rulers of Russia.