From here:

A sect worshipping Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has started up in the village of Bolshaya Yelnia near the Volga.

The sect was founded by a woman calling herself Mother Fotina, and she teaches that Putin was St Paul in his past life, and is now together with seven other reborn apostles fighting the antichrists, Interfax reported.

“According to the Bible, Paul the Apostle was a military commander at first,” the sect’s founder told Sobesednik.

“In his days in the KGB, Putin also did some rather unrighteous things. But once he became president, he was imbued with the Holy Spirit, and just like the apostle, he started heading his flock,” she said.

Mother Fotima is evidently undeterred by minor difficulties such as the contradiction inherent in a Christian saint being reincarnated or that it would be difficult to find a less saint-like evil bastard than the extravagantly pompous egotist, Vadimir Putin – although that must have been before Vlad fell off his horse and saw the light.