the last 10 years due to the Russian government's increasing patronage of the Russian Orthodox Church and the [Russian] government's Soviet-era paranoia about the subversive potential of independent religious groups." On 12 April 2016 the University of Prešov awarded Dvorkin an honorary doctorate in theology partly in "appreciation of his work in the academic, religious, social, political and cultural fields, but also [as] an emphasis and concrete manifestation of scientific, social and cultural cooperation by the community of Prešov University in Prešov". He has appeared numerous times on Russian television and many times on television in various Eastern-European countries. He has written 15 books (on various cults, on church history as well as autobiographies) and was editor-compiler of a further four. He is the author of about 800 articles in 17 languages. He is the author of articles about new religious movements in Great Russian Encyclopedia and Orthodox Encyclopedia. Bibliography Church history and theology Dvorkin A. Ivan the Terrible as a Religious Type: a study of the background, genesis and development of the theocratic idea of the first Russian tsar, and his attempts to establish "free autocracy" in Russia. — Erlangen: Erlangen University Press: Oikonomia:Lehrstuhl für Geschichte und Theologie des christlichen Ostens, 1992. — . (in Russian: Дворкин А. Л. Иван Грозный как религиозный тип: ст. и материалы / пер. с англ. Ю. С. Терентьев, А. Л. Дворкин. — Н. Новгород: Изд-во Братства во имя Св. Александра Невского, 2005. — 343 с. — .) Дворкин А. Л. Роль византийско-арагонского тайного союза в подготовке "сицилийской вечерни" [XIII в.] // Альфа и Омега. — М., 1994. — № 2. — С. 83-100. Дворкин А. Л. Идея вселенской теократии в поздней Византии // Альфа и Омега. — М., 1994. — № 1. — С. 57-72. Дворкин А. Л. Современные Православные Церкви (справка) // Альфа и Омега. — М., 1994. — № 1. — С. 108-115. Дворкин А. Л. Роль византийско-арагонского тайного союза в подготовке «сицилийской вечерни» // Альфа и Омега. — М., 1994. — № 2. — С. 83-100. Дворкин А. Л. Ветхий Завет как христианская книга в писаниях св. Иустина, Философа и Мученика // Альфа и Омега. — М., 1994. — № 3. — С. 75-85. Дворкин А. Л. Об отце Глебе Каледе // Альфа и Омега. — М., 1995. — № 4. — С. 126-134. Дворкин А. Л. Миссионер: (Жизнь, личность и взгляды Патриарха Сергия (Страгородского): Главы из канд. дис.) //