The head of Russia’s Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, named Vladimir Putin ‘chief exorcist’ in 2022 in response to the Kremlin calling for the ‘desatanisation’ of Ukraine. Maxim Shipenkov / EPA

The Ukraine war has given rise to an ‘exorcism economy’ in Russia

Thousands of Russians have travelled to monasteries and priests for exorcisms since the start of the Ukraine war.

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