Anyone know much about Putin's religious mentor

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5. The voice of balance and reason....

Thanks for your input.
There's a picture I saw only once of Putin praying his Orthodox prayer beads. When I think about his actions against western as well as middle eastern nations that picture tempers my opinion about a purely pragmatic Putin. His mother was devout and they practiced a strict Russian Orthodoxy. Putin as a pragmatic oligarch doesn't conflict with Putin the devout, especially when noting the ways and history of the ROC with its absolutism, and a background of mythical thinking certainly can open itself to a mix of intellectualism and a newly branded fascism that Dugin offers.
I appreciate tempering my imagination with down to reality data; I need to do that. But I wouldn't underestimate the value of keeping an eye on broad perspectives as long as it's observation based. I see a clandestine mystic under the pragmatic exterior of the hardend power mad Putin. That makes a big difference in making sense of and predicting his moves.