Even so, despite the ongoing struggle, it is difficult to envision what it would look like for the Russian Orthodox Church to regain a similar place in Russian society as it held before the Soviet era ...

A revered religious painting that has just been transferred on President Vladimir Putin's orders from a museum to the Russian Orthodox Church needs a year of restoration and remains state property ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Moscow’s state-run Tretyakov Gallery Arts Museum to hand over the country's Trinity icon, by medieval painter Andrei Rublyov, to the Russian Orthodox ...

U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said the Russian president commissioned the painting by a “leading” Russian artist and asked that Witkoff bring it to the White House.