the more established Ukrainian Orthodox Church has retained some links with Moscow. And even as it has sought to distance itself from Russia, the UOC has also stuck with Christmas on Jan. 7.

It is owned by the Ukrainian government, which gave the Kyiv-led church permission to conduct the service at the cathedral rather than the Moscow-led church. In Russia, Orthodox Christmas ...

It was Christmas in Russia* last week, and for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution Russians crowded Orthodox churches, with the blessing of the Soviet Government. Moscow’s 50 churches ...

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine formally broke away from the Russian Orthodox Church over Moscow's ... also opted to hold Christmas services on Dec. 25. But the historically Russia-linked Ukrainian ...

In November, Moscow launched its second ... Ukraine's biggest private energy company DTEK said that Russia struck one of their thermal power plants on Christmas day, marking the 13th consecutive ...

Russia's Orthodox Patriarch, Marking Christmas, Says West Trying to Smother ... Victorious with veterans of the Ukraine conflict, at Moscow's Poklonnaya Hill war memorial complex.

Russia’s bombing of regions in eastern Ukraine killed at least two people overnight, local officials said on Sunday, after Moscow ended a self-declared Christmas cease-fire and vowed to push on ...

Christmas, like so much else in Ukraine these days, is tightly tangled up in the country’s war with Russia. The Ukrainian ... “We see that the Moscow Patriarchate creates myths about the ...

changing dates represents a separation from Russia, its culture and its religion. People in a village on the outskirts of Kyiv voted recently to move up their Christmas observance. “What began ...

January in Russia conjures up images of Muscovites ... in grassy areas around still-standing Christmas trees. Instead of ice choking the Moscow River and the biting cold of the “moroz ...

the more established Ukrainian Orthodox Church has retained some links with Moscow. And even as it has sought to distance itself from Russia, the UOC has also stuck with Christmas on Jan. 7.