[mazabotman]

There was the final programme this evening on Russian television in a series aimed at finding the Greatest Russian. A panel of experts gave opinions and the public voted. The winner was St Alexander Nevsky. However, Stalin came third. The presenter did say that it was indicative that Russians had voted for a saint because Russia is unthinkable without saints and Orthodoxy. God, he said, loves Holy Russia, the only country that is called 'holy'; but Russia must in turn love God.