Russia's FSB security service said on Friday it had arrested two church figures suspected of plotting to kill a priest close to President Vladimir Putin on the orders of a Ukrainian spy agency.

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.

The Kremlin may set the agenda ... fall short of the rhetoric adopted by church officials and politicians. Widely discussed proposals from the latter include removing abortion care from the ...

This includes supporting the Kremlin's four-point "peace plan" -- undermining Kyiv's position -- and pushing a global ...

The Kremlin condemned the alleged assassination ... In 2023, Mr Shevkunov was appointed to the senior church rank of metropolitan of Crimea, the peninsula which Russia captured and annexed from ...

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 ...

Sculptor and writer Clare Sheridan had a whirlwind romance with Soviet diplomat Lev Kamenev who she met in London in the ...

Betrayal is something Vladimir Putin has seen a lot of during the three-year war he started against Ukraine. The men the ...