Xenia Loutchenko (interviewed by Christopher Stroop), Religion and Politics in Russia: An Insider’s View

by Christopher Stroop, Xenia Loutchenko

Xenia Loutchenko interviewed by Christopher Stroop

Christopher Stroop

Christopher Stroop is a Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in the History Department at the University of South Florida. He is also a freelance writer, a senior research fellow in the School of Public Policy at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, and editor of the academic journal State, Religion and Church. Follow him on Twitter @C_Stroop.

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Xenia Loutchenko

A freelance journalist and an expert on religious issues in the Russian media and the role of the media in church-public relations. She graduated from the Department of Journalism of Moscow State University in 2001, and in 2009 defended her doctoral thesis on “The Internet in Information and Communication Activities of Religious Organizations in Russia.” Loutchenko is the author of The Orthodox Internet: Guidebook (2004), a book on the lives of priests’ wives (2012),
and dialogues with Priest Sergei Kruglov (2015).

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