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 ...

The Russian Community—now the country’s largest extremist group—is thriving under Putin’s wartime regime, fusing faith, ...

Founded by priests and clergy fleeing the Russian Revolution in 1917, ROCOR is seen by many as the most conservative Orthodox ...

May 27th is a date that has witnessed a wide array of significant events throughout history, shaping the world we live in ...

A surge of people converting to Orthodox Christianity is helping local parishes here buck the national trend of declining ...

Alexander Chalenko’s An Up-to-Date History of Novorossiya (St. Petersburg, 2023) provides a useful insight into one of the ...

When the Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery unveiled its newest major exhibition, a 270-piece retrospective dedicated to ...

By Artem Zagorodnov In 2010, following a string of terrorist attacks in the volatile North Caucasus, Russia’s government ...

It was in judo class at the age of 12 that Putin met one of his lifelong friends: Arkady Rotenberg. The pair remained close, and in the cloak-and-dagger world of Russian politics, it would be old ...

A Russian Orthodox priest has been arrested ... Nikolai Savchenko posted on social media that police officers stormed his church in St Petersburg during Sunday service to detain him.

A Russian Orthodox priest has been arrested in St. Petersburg over a 2014 photograph showing him ... Savchenko says he was detained directly at his church. He was charged with displaying banned ...