The Kremlin’s most dangerous weapon is not always a missile. Sometimes it wears a cassock.
The Kremlin’s most dangerous weapon is not always a missile. Sometimes it wears a cassock.
In Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing, Miceál O’Hurley and Oksana Shadrina show what many have seen for years: the Russian Orthodox Church functions as a Kremlin instrument, built for intelligence, influence, and political warfare. It launders Moscow’s ambitions in the language of faith and tradition.
Europe needs this book, illuminating how Moscow turns liturgy into cover for subversion and uses piety as a passport for power.
The full-scale invasion of Ukraine did not begin with tanks. It began in sanctuaries, where canon law was bent to deny a nation’s right to exist. The authors trace the arc from medieval imperial myths to today’s security threat, and the conclusion is blunt. Ignore these Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing and you invite a Trojan Horse through the cathedral doors. A vital read.
Jason Jay Smart
Security Consultant Specialising in Russia
& Special Correspondent, Kyiv Post
