The biennial list is intended to raise awareness and funds to help preserve the sites it spotlights. Africa's Swahili Coast, ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Russian Orthodox communities across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta celebrate Slaviq — well-known in the region for its tradition ...

Russia's invasion, which began in February 2022, has also been a source of religious controversy within the Eastern Orthodox ...

What the Church has not observed on Jan. 1 is the ... century icon “The Nativity,” prayed by Andrei Rublev. In the Orthodox tradition, sacred images of icons are not “painted,” “made ...

The photo of Filkina's hand with brightly painted fingernails went viral around the world, becoming one of the most well-known symbols of the massacre that Russian forces carried out against ...

A Russian high school textbook urging young ... to the role of producers of cannon fodder for future wars. The Orthodox Church explicitly extols obscurantist, misogynistic content too.

The Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed killing 38 people was downed by a Russian air defence system, according to four Reuters sources. The Embraer 190 passenger jet was en route from ...

“This year the big Christmas event is that we are celebrating it together with the rest of Europe, like last year, and not on the date that was imposed on us in Soviet times [January 7, the date of ...

A vessel carrying a sanctioned shipment of Russian liquefied natural gas appears to be offloading the fuel into storage in the nation’s far east, having failed to find a buyer willing to ...

Ukrainian forces meanwhile said Wednesday that they attacked a Russian ... Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). Since then, religious affiliation has increasingly been viewed as a symbol of national ...