Former CIA officer John Kiriakou retracted his claim that the U.S. paid the Ecumenical Patriarchate to grant autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church ...

To get peace in Ukraine, Donald Trump must listen to what Vladimir Putin says he wants. Alternatively, Trump must pressure Putin to make hard concessions.

Putin said the church was “being tortured” — and ... noting parallels to Soviet state antisemitism under Josef Stalin, when the Kremlin persecuted Jews and accused them of being “rootless ...

Ukrainian painter Mykhailo Boichuk and his circle of socialist artists perished in Stalin’s 1930s repression, destroying much ...

The Kremlin's narratives about traditional values and anti-migrant ... In a recent interview on Spas, a TV channel associated with the Russian Orthodox Church, Held explained that he is involved in ...

The White House says a lengthy phone call between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had achieved “movement to peace” ...

Fasting, praying and eating according to religious rules is impossible in some jails, ex-prisoners and groups say.

Some world events can look different to those of us on this side of the Atlantic, also, more precisely, in Berlin. God knows, here too I’m frightened at ...

Russian ballistic missiles killed at least five civilians in Ukraine, officials said Wednesday, a day after the Trump administration lifted its suspension of military aid for ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Thursday declined to comment on a Reuters report that Russia had presented the U.S. with a list of its demands to end the war in Ukraine and reset relations with ...