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ROME — When Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council just weeks after the Kremlin rolled tanks into Ukraine, around 140 diplomats walked out. One of the few that stayed: The envoy from the Holy See.
The Holy See’s decision typified what some in the West see as an exasperating tendency by the neutral sovereign entity to sit on the fence rather than naming and shaming Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has used the powerful Russian Orthodox Church’s imprimatur to help legitimize his brutal, revanchist war in Ukraine.
Across several intergovernmental organizations, the sovereign
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