TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Orthodox Christians on Easter Sunday, stressing that the clergy have always been with the people, as they are now when the country is ...

Such attempts to use the Easter holiday for provocations may only come from those forces which continue to demonstrate their interest in aggravating confrontation, Russian Orthodox Church ...

Despite it being a major holiday in both Ukraine and Russia, Orthodox ... "mutilated" by Russian artillery, the local governor said. "Usually we would come to our churches with Easter baskets.