Metropolitan Hilarion, once seen as Patriarch Kirill's successor, was dismissed by the Moscow Patriarchate amid allegations, ...
A Russian court has sentenced blogger and singer Eduard Sharlot to five and a half years in a penal colony for promoting Nazism and insulting religious beliefs. The court in the Samara Region also ...
A Russian court has sentenced blogger Eduard Sharlot to five years and six months behind bars for rehabilitation of Nazism ...
A Russian singer who burned his passport in a protest against the war in Ukraine has been sentenced to more than five years ...
When recently asked at a press conference whether he believes Russia’s war with Ukraine will end in 2025, Vladimir Putin gave ...
In 2019, Ukraine’s pro-Western government established the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) that reports to the ...
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill is sending letters in support of new mothers in Russia as part of a new project designed to encourage pregnant women to keep their babies, according to a ...
Russian parliament will debate a law aimed at ending spiritual gatherings in buildings that are not officially recognized ...
The documentary series Time Chose Us on the Belarus 1 TV channel examined why Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk Filaret, ...
The second misconception represents Patriarch Kirill as a grey cardinal of sorts ... Thirdly, whenever the Russian Orthodox Church is discussed, the Patriarch alone represents her most of the time.
The patriarch has tried to distance himself recently from the country’s political leaders, stressing his superiority in the relationship between Russia’s political and clerical power.