News Russia Religion: These microscopic Russian groups number less than 500 each!
Despite this, it borrows heavily from Russian custom - including the clothing - and to a much lesser extent from Estonian. Another factor here is religion: the Estonians are Lutherans, while the Setos ...
News Russia Religion: Russia Launches 4th and Final 'Blagovest' Military Communications Satellite
"Blagovest is a Russian religious term meaning 'good news,'" he added. Blagovest's planners may have initially envisioned the project, which was partially declassified in 2015, providing some ...
News Russia Religion: Putin congratulates the Muslims of Russia on the Eid al-Adha Islamic holiday
The Russian president highlighted the great contribution ... institutions and maintaining dialogue between ethnic groups and religions. ...
News Russia Religion: Government restrictions on religion increasing worldwide
This was Pew’s 10th annual Report on Global Restrictions on Religion. It said 52 governments, including those in Russia and China, impose high levels of restrictions on religion, up from 40 ...
News Russia Religion: Beware Of Extremists -- And Women! Uzbeks Get Islamic Sermons At Airport Before Flying To Russia
Airport passengers in the eastern Uzbek city of Namangan who are flying to Russia are being force-fed Islamic sermons about loyalty, the dangers of religious extremism -- and Russian women. The main ...
News Russia Religion: Religion restrictions increase
NEW YORK — Government restrictions on religion have increased markedly in many places around the world, not only in authoritarian countries, but also in many of Europe’s democracies, according to a re
News Russia Religion: Religious harassment worsening across world, Pew study shows
Government restrictions on religion have increased in many places around the world, not only under authoritarian countries but also in democracies, most notably in Europe, according to a report released Monday.
News Russia Religion: Storied Russian Miniatures Dwindling in Face of Icon Revival
PALEKH, Russia — Once upon a time, the small, picturesque Russian village of Palekh gained fame far and wide for producing religious icons. Then one day, a revolution came and its adherents, growling, ...
News Russia Religion: Russian seamen mourn submersible deaths
Navy sailors attend a religion service to commemorate the crew members that were killed on one of the Russian navy's deep-sea research submersibles at Kronshtadt Navy Cathedral outside St.Petersburg, ...
News Russia Religion: When Russia invaded Ukraine, the countries’ rabbis also went to war
the letter somewhat undercut the simple narrative that there was a clear demarcation between Ukrainian and Russian religious leaders, with each taking his own country’s side but could not obscure the ...
News Russia Religion: Russia's attack on democracy shows the value of Independence Day
These regimes rule by combining repression of dissidents, immigrants and ethno-religious minorities ... Putin’s domestic ideology repackages that of Russia’s Nicholas I, a paranoid view ...
News Russia Religion: When the Russian police arrived, deported American knew his LDS mission ‘would never be the same’
Vilnius, Lithuania • The three-week detention of two Latter-day Saint volunteers-cum-missionaries in Russia earlier this year may not be ripe for a James Bond action thriller or even a real-life kidnapping saga like “The Saratov Approach,” but the prolonged ordeal was still a quiet drama for the pair and their church.
News Russia Religion: Russia: Nuclear reactor safe on fire-hit submersible
Russian media reported that it was the country's most secret submersible, a nuclear-powered research submarine called the Losharik intended for sensitive missions at great depths. Navy sailors attend ...
News Russia Religion: Russia’s version of Elton John biopic censors depictions of gay sex and drug use
Several theaters scheduled to show the movie, “Matilda,” received bomb threats while others were vandalized by religious activists before its release. A movie about a czar's love affair ignites ...
News Russia Religion: Ukraine's Crisis of Religion
With the news of schism came statements made by former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko in which he announced his intention to seize major religious sites belonging to the Russian Orthodox ...
News Russia Religion: Pope Francis to meet Russia’s Putin before Vatican Ukraine meeting
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and backs separatist ... Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, eschewed Poroshenko’s religious policy and said that the state should not interfere in ...
News Russia Religion: What A Row Over A Cathedral Says About Religion And Protest In Russia
You can read the history of Russia through its attitude to religion. In the twentieth century, that went from persecution during the 1920s -- when an organization calling itself 'The League of the ...
