in the world and in ukraine. >> right. the religion is very similar, obviously, russia ukraine. i'm wondering, some experts say the russian orthodox religion is crucial to putin's vision of recreating a russian empire. help us better understand what that connection might be. >> so this is -- it's an alliance you can say made between president putin about ten years ago. these ideas haven't always been central to putin but ten years ago, when putin faced the most serious opposition in the runup to his third term, he embraced the ideas the patriot developed of the russian world and belarus and ukraine as being distinct civilization as you touched on that represents these patriotic