Chaplin, ‘a Zhirinovsky from the Orthodox Church,’ says mass repressions necessary and reasonable
Mass repressions don’t just start; the groundwork has to be laid in advance. And that task is being…
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Moscow patriarch Kirill
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The Great Orthodox Council ended. Now what for Ukraine?
How was the Ukrainian question discussed at the Council? It wasn't explicitly present at the Council, not being…
Inside Ukraine’s appeal for Church autocephaly
On the eve of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Churches, Ukraine’s Parliament approved and issued…
How Russia used Orthodox fundamentalism to hijack the Church Council in Crete
Behind this leadership squabble lurks a growing antagonism not only between the zealot – neo-fundamentalists – and the…
Orthodox world heading toward a new schism
The decisions of the Bulgarian, Serbian and Antioch Orthodox churches not to attend the Holy and Great Council…
“Jaw casts fill potholes in Siberia” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
An epochal meeting with epochal consequences
Anyone who remembers my article "When diplomacy prevails over principles of faith" knows that I was not very…
Kirill wants a ‘guarantee’ from Pope in his war against Church in Ukraine, Kholmogorov says
The upcoming meeting of Moscow Patriarch Kirill with Pope Francis in Cuba is not only a major boost…
Stalin and the Russian Orthodox Church
Moscow Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church demonstrated a new level of flexibility -- personally and, it is…
Patriarch Kirill sends letters to Putin and Poroshenko
On the eve of the 1000th anniversary of death of Vladimir the Great, Patriarch Kiril (of the Russian Orthodox…
Moscow Patriarchate’s loss of Ukrainian churches will render ‘Russian world’ idea a purely militant nationalism, Falikov says
The Moscow Patriarchate’s looming loss of control over bishoprics and congregations in Ukraine to a new autocephalous Ukrainian…
Moscow patriarch says Ukrainian faithful no longer obligated to obey Kyiv
This article was originally published by the Jamestown foundation Both due to the other challenges Ukraine faces and…
Ukrainians advise Moscow patriarch to look for atheists at home
Leaders of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) say that Moscow Patriarch Kirill should urge Putin to stop…