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• #Russian Church in Unexpected Regions from Pyongyang to Tehran If the ideological framework around common Russian identity works in Buddhist Kalmykia, where a procession becomes the region's main news story for several days, it's logical to ask: can similar logic apply far beyond the country — where there is no Russian administrative hierarchy, no post-Soviet connections, and no Christian majority