after the Russian national emblem was displayed without its Orthodox crosses. Newsweek has contacted the Kremlin for comment by email. Under the leadership of Ramzan Kadyrov, the predominantly Muslim ...

Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has justified Putin's decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022 on spiritual and ideological grounds. In the 10 months since the Russian ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts ... Alaska Native spirit houses sit by aging gravesites alongside Orthodox crosses poking from the cemetery grounds. The narrow church with white ...

OLEG VAROV / RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH PRESS SERVICE / AFP The ... fighters in the Ukrainian war will be decorated with military crosses blessed by Kirill himself – and engraved on the chains ...

Anthony has met Pope Francis twice since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The pope kissed the Orthodox metropolitan’s pectoral cross during a brief encounter after a Wednesday general audience ...

The Russian Orthodox Church is an outspoken exception ... In “The Baton and the Cross”, Lucy Ash, a journalist, offers an authoritative look at the closeness of church and state under Vladimir ...

Russian settlements sprang up across Alaska ... where graves incorporate religious conventions like Orthodox crosses, which have three cross beams with the lowest slanted, with the Dena'ina ...