Russia and the US have not traditionally been close culturally but there’s a few shifts going on. The Trump administration has a very different relationship and attitude towards Moscow than usual.  And mirroring that is an increased conversion to the very conservative, traditional and some say masculine Russian Orthodox Church in pockets of the US. Journalist Lucy Ash has spent a lot of time reporting from Russia... and found some converts who had even left the US for Russia to deepen their ties.  Lucy noticed a trend in the US for young men but also women converting to Russian Orthodoxy. 

• Guest: Lucy Ash - journalist and author of The Baton and the Cross: Russia’s Church from Pagans to Putin.