TV show: The power of fact

The leitmotif is the theme of the Third Rome. Many misunderstand this concept, and suggests that the separation of Ukraine and the rift with Constantinople marks the end of the concept of the Third Rome. In fact, it is exactly the opposite. The third Rome is not a concept of a world Empire, or even a large Imperial space. It is about something else. Rather, it is the concept of civilizational loneliness. After the fall of Byzantium, Moscow has realized that the world center of Orthodoxy in its previous form no longer exists, but rather that it is such a center. Itself is Rome. And the current self-discrediting of the Patriarchate of Constantinople causes similar sensations. And the geopolitical situation in the world, too, makes you remember or think about loneliness as a constant of Russian history. And in this sense it is correct to say that the time of the third Rome did not leave, they come back, and in my opinion, it was not the worst time in the history of the Russian Church and the Russian state.