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Just about everything about the onion-domed Russian Orthodox church near the otherwise unassuming Swedish city of Vasteras ...
Swedish intelligence services believe that one of the country's Russian Orthodox churches could be a base for spying. Almost ...
Long suspected as a tool of Russian soft power, the Russian Orthodox Church has openly embraced the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine. That’s accelerated efforts in a growing number of countries to ...
Photos made since the Russian takeover of Avdiyivka show the eastern Ukrainian city reduced to a nearly empty wasteland.
By 2010, the Russian Orthodox Church had taken on a new role inside the Russian army with the introduction of military priests, or chaplains. And in 2020, Putin and his defense minister, Sergei Shoigu ...
All eyes are currently on Vladimir Putin's residence, as the Russian President has finally given the public a glimpse of what's inside through the eyes and cameras of Russian journalist Zarubin ...
The Russian Orthodox Church is led by Patriarch Kirill, an ally of Vladimir Putin. But the UOC says it is firmly behind Ukraine’s fight to defend itself.
The Ukrainian government will draw up a law banning churches affiliated with Russia under moves described by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as necessary to prevent Moscow being able to "weaken ...
A hard-line Russian bishop backed by the political might of the Kremlin could split the Orthodox Church in two.
Pope Francis on Sunday sharply denounced the Ukrainian government’s recently enacted ban on Russian Orthodox Church worship, arguing that the faithful should not be barred from worshipping as ...
The Rev. Ioann Koval stands inside an old Orthodox church in Antalya, Turkey, Sunday, July 16, 2023. Koval started serving in this church after the Russian Orthodox Church leadership decided to ...
Russian officials said the assaults against the church and one of the synagogues occurred in the coastal city of Derbent, with both catching fire, according to state media.