to those of Nicholas." Stan Grant of Charles Sturt University has argued that it "remains Putin's vision today. The church and the state are inseparable. The head of Russian Orthodoxy, Patriarch Kirill, has called Putin 'a miracle of God'." Foreign Policy journalist Michael Hirsh has stated that the policy "isn’t mentioned in Putin’s speeches and writings—he still likes to pretend Russia is a democracy—but it has been invoked by the far-right thinkers said to influence Putin, including Aleksandr Dugin, Lev Gumilev, Igor Shafarevich, Ivan Ilyin, Konstantin Leontiev, Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy, and others dating back 200 years." See also Byzantinism Liberté, égalité, fraternité Tsarist autocracy Citations General sources Uvarov's report (in Russian) Eastern Orthodoxy and far-right politics Mottos Political catchphrases Politics of the Russian Empire Russian nationalism Monarchism Far-right politics in Russia Nicholas I of Russia Russian philosophy