Jan. 6—In what acted as a simultaneous commemoration of (Western) Epiphany and (Eastern) Christmas Day, Russian President Vladimir Putin, following the request of Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, declared a ceasefire in the special military operation, beginning at noon on January 6, and ending midnight Christmas Day, January 7. Such a “Christmas truce” had been advocated by many religious figures in the trans-Atlantic sector as well, and featured as one expression of the anti-war, pro-economic development “Ten Principles” campaign of the Schiller Institute. Though Ukraine’s leadership refused the truce, Christians throughout the world, including the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, now being suppressed in that “bastion of democracy and tolerance,” now know who actually respects the idea, “Peace On Earth, Good Will Toward Men.”