Vladimir Putin and the patriarch of Russia’s Orthodox Church sent a rather unfriendly message to the West during their ...

Military medic Natalya carried a jug of water blessed by priests at the Sviatogirsk monastery in east Ukraine as she ...

The anti-abortion movement is on the rise in Russia, and the Kremlin is responding by changing the law to make terminations more difficult.

Russia's invasion, which began in February 2022, has also been a source of religious controversy within the Eastern Orthodox Church and has driven a split among believers in both Russia and Ukraine.Vi ...

Congressionally Chartered. Scholarship Driven. Fiercely Nonpartisan.

Since the start of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian leader has turned to religion and ...

Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast day of Epiphany, where worshippers bathe in the icy waters of ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has once again sought the "blessing" and support of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Orthodox ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they ... antisemitism under Josef Stalin, when the Kremlin persecuted Jews and accused them of being ...

Vladimir Putin has marked Russian Orthodox Christmas by attending church in Moscow alongside fighters in his war against ...

Vladimir Putin met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church ... condemn Moscow's invasion and the Kremlin regime’s policies. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church was established in 1990 as a self ...