"We are Lipovans and our country is Romania," he says. "It's simple." Amos Chapple. Amos Chapple is a New Zealand-born writer and visual journalist with a particular interest in the former U.S.S.R.

However, during the past several decades, after acquiring official status as a minority, the Lipovans have been experiencing a national and cultural revival. We spoke about this re-emergence with ...

Romania's Lipovans, members of a Russian minority, are struggling to keep traditions alive amid a job shortage and aging population. Vanessa Johnston reports.

Many Lipovans ended up in bigger towns, where they were in a minority. Speaking Russian became ever more difficult. And religion, which constitutes the "core of Lipovan identity", ...

Russian Lipovans Celebrate 700th Anniversary of Reverend Sergius of Radonezh 14.10.2014. In Bukovina, north of Romania, in the town of Radauti and the village of Climauti, Suceava county, more than ...

Romania's Lipovans, members of a Russian minority, are struggling to keep traditions alive amid a job shortage and aging population. Vanessa Johnston reports.

Babushka Yuliana Mitry can still chant the words to dozens of the ancient songs the Lipovan people brought to Romania's Danube delta as they fled persecution in Russia nearly 300 years ago.