A project born during the Covid pandemic turns into a book about their Cold War courtship Joann and Jim Mead have lived in ...

Currently, the Russian, Georgian, Jerusalem, Serbian Orthodox Churches ... After the Baptism holiday, the period of weddings ("wedding weeks") began, which lasted until Maslenitsa (Shrovetide).

Many of the 1,500 Jews who live in Finland today can trace their roots back to the Russian military, which brought them here as conscripts. Beginning in the 1850’s, Jews, who now constitute a tiny ...

Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.

Zmiiny was recognized as an island, as Ukraine insisted (and not a rock, as the Romanians argued), but the majority of the disputed EEZ was given to Romania 2018 - in the Syrian province of Idlib, a ...

A number of Orthodox priests who are against Russia's invasion of Ukraine have sought refuge in Germany, where they face many challenges. After Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in ...

Orthodox priests from Russia are facing repression for opposing Russian policies and the invasion of Ukraine. Many have fled, facing difficulties in resettling, such as finding jobs and learning ...

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has announced plans to increase the number of military chaplains deployed with Russian ...

Orthodox Christians in Russia marked the feast ... and South Ossetia, as well as Russian soldiers purportedly in Ukraine’s Kherson region immersing themselves in water. However, unusually ...

Military medic Natalya carried a jug of water blessed by priests at the Sviatogirsk monastery in eastern Ukraine as she celebrated Orthodox Epiphany in a Russian-affiliated church, despite the war.

Rivka Lazar, daughter of the Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar, and Sholom Wolf, son of the Chief Rabbi of Odessa and Southern Ukraine Avraham Wolf, got married yesterday in DCity, near Maaleh Adumim, ...