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 ...

Under the leadership of Ramzan Kadyrov, the predominantly Muslim southern Russian republic of Chechnya has maintained a high degree of autonomy while remaining loyal to the Kremlin and Russian ...

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 ...