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Robert Blitt

Robert Blitt is the Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter distinguished professor of law at the University of Tennessee Winston College of Law. He previously served as international law specialist for the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF.)

With Orbán gone, now is time for EU to sanction Russia’s Patriarch Kirill
26 April 2026 by Robert Blitt
The EU tried to sanction Patriarch Kirill back in 2022, calling him ‘one of the most prominent supporters of the Russian military aggression against Ukraine’. Now Viktor Orbán and his veto is history, religious actors cannot remain immunised from consequences merely by virtue of hiding behind the veil of religion.