In March, Russian investigative outlet Important Stories reported that relations between Kadyrov and Putin had become strained over his alleged talks with repre ...

Exactly how this came to be is the subject of The Baton and the Cross by journalist and former ... to Russia Unlike Catholicism, the Russian Orthodox Church rejects the authority of the Pope ...

Languages: English A Russian priest interrupted the funeral service of a dead Ukrainian soldier last week, beating another priest from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine with a cross because of his ...

The Russian ... Cross”, Lucy Ash, a journalist, offers an authoritative look at the closeness of church and state under Vladimir Putin. Russia is, in theory, a secular country, yet the Orthodox ...