[1]Adrian Pabst, a Leverhulme research fellow at the University of Nottingham in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies [2] and a research fellow at the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies, has published another piece in The Guardian entitled “Kirill is not the Kremlin’s man: Patriarch Kirill isn’t doing Russia’s bidding in Ukraine. What he wants is a unified, independent Orthodox church.” [1]