Estonia is aiming to split its Orthodox Church from the Moscow Patriarchate as the Kremlin uses religion as a tool for soft ...

Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill usually performs the Divine Liturgy at the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius near Moscow ...

Somehow the Lithuanian language survived; today it is thriving. Yet Russia’s presence is palpable, and with the invasion of ...

The Rurik and Romanov dynasties of Russia have shaped modern-day Russia’s land and people. From the first dynasty, which began around the 780s, to 1917, when the Romanov dynasty fell to the Bolshevik ...

In a Moscow suburb, locals have been battling against city officials and the Russian Orthodox Church to stop construction of a new church in a city park. This construction project is part of a plan to ...

Voters supported legalizing same-sex marriage 62% to 38% in a nonbinding nationwide referendum. Second country in the world ...

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the deadliest European conflict since World War Two and has shown increasing frustration with Putin in recent days ...

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov raised alarms about NATO's expansion and Germany's military buildup. He recalled ...

The International Olympic Committee announced on Tuesday what had already been foreshadowed by the IIHF: The ban on Russian teams that was in place for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics will remain in ...

The remarkable legacy of Saint John the Russian continues to thrive in Greece, where his revered relics are enshrined in a ...

The Saint-Nicolas-et-Sainte-Alexandra Orthodox Church, in Nice, September 2016. BOIZET/ALPACA /ANDIA.FR For the Russian Federation's lawyer, Andrea Pinna, the episode was a "non-event," nothing ...

The Russian Orthodox Church is by far the biggest of the churches in the Eastern Orthodox communion, which split with Western Christianity in the Great Schism of 1054. According to the Kyiv ...