The Russian Orthodox Church is involved in mobilizing soldiers ... has reverted to the "trinity doctrine" formulated during imperial times, which posits that the Russian nation includes Great ...

The Church of the Ascension was built in 1532 on the imperial estate of Kolomenskoye ... at Kolomenskoye represents an imaginative and innovative advance in Russian Orthodox Church design, which ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin joined the congregation for an Orthodox Christmas service in Moscow on Monday evening.

The Russian Orthodox Church is an outspoken exception. Patriarch Kirill, who leads the church, has described the conflict as a “holy war” and said that any young man who died in action would ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian ...

This sense of imperial exceptionalism ... The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Alexy II presented the new ruler of ...

Russian Orthodoxy was promoted and Catholic monasteries were closed. Often, the Orthodox Church would take over former Catholic Churches. Until 1891 Finland had its own parliament, laws and ...