According to Lauri Läänemets, these legislative amendments are necessary because the Orthodox Church, which is subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate, is the most important instrument of influence for ...

Representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate impede the transfer of communities to the OCU, in particular by using physical force against parishioners. Metropolitan Yevstratiy Zorya, Deputy Head of the ...

With momentum in Moscow’s favour and the Ukrainians in retreat, the Kremlin has few reasons to sit for peace talks now. Russian forces gained thousands of square kilometres of the Donetsk region ...

Senator Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be U.S. secretary of state, said on Wednesday (January 15) both Russia and Ukraine will need to make concessions to end the war in Ukraine. ...

Analysts argue that Belarus is no longer just a Russian ally. Instead, the Kremlin is transforming it into a strategic partner to help extend Moscow’s influence globally. The Kremlin plans to leverage ...

It started out rather differently than we now sometimes imagine it. When Vladimir Putin took over the Russian presidency from Boris Yeltsin 25 years ago, on New Year’s Eve 1999, he was seen as a ...

NEW DELHI — The death of an Indian man working for the Russian army in Ukraine has brought renewed focus to the Kremlin’s use of foreign nationals on the front lines — from North Koreans to ...

Thousands of fighters have been returned in dozens of exchanges since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a rare form of cooperation between Moscow and Kyiv after nearly three years of fighting.

In Defense of Christian staff Richard Ghazal (far-left) and William Roberts (far-right) with Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church (middle), Archbishop John Kawak (middle-right) and Ambassador Henry ...

The Kremlin has forced Russian banks to provide preferential loans to uncreditworthy war-related businesses, provoking a 71% expansion in corporate debt which drives interest rates, inflation, and a ...

WARSAW — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Wednesday accused Russia of planning a major terrorist campaign against aircraft. "I can only confirm that Russia planned acts of air terror, not just ...