The Russian Orthodox Church's patriarch declared during a sermon that Russian soldiers who die in the line of duty against Ukraine will be absolved of their sins.

A Russian priest interrupted the funeral service of a dead Ukrainian soldier last week, beating another priest from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine with a cross because of his comments about ...

Sweden is reportedly probing a Russian Orthodox church in the town of Västerås over possible hybrid warfare techniques, a new ...

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A Russian soldier was seen firing a grenade launcher at a residential building in Sudzha, a border town in Russia's Kursk Oblast retaken from Ukrainian forces earlier this year, in a video ...

Chinese and Russian troops hold joint drill targeting cross-border terrorism. ... linking the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk with the Chinese city of ... two Orthodox churches and a police post. ...

An Orthodox priest blesses Russian paratroopers marching during 2017 Paratroopers' Day celebrations, the annual holiday of Russian Airborne Troops, at their military unit in the southern city of ...

Graves of fallen Russian soldiers from the Wagner mercenary forces on the outskirts of Bakinskaya, a town in Russia. Russia Dispatch In Bleak Russian Cemetery, Sea of Crosses Signals War’s True Toll ...

A Russian Telegram channel, MASH, had reported in November 2022 that the ROC was funding training for those called up as part of Russia’s 2022 autumn mobilization and were receiving blessings from a ...

The prayer room is big enough for a platoon of soldiers, he said. Russian army platoons typically number between 21 and 28 troops. Two Orthodox icons hang either side of the entrance.

Kirill Shamiev and Ksenia Luchenko, both Visiting Fellows at the European Council on Foreign Relations, wrote for the Russia Post about the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in Putin’s regime and ...

BAKINSKAYA, Russia — It was a lonely funeral. Four narrow caskets, recently pulled from the back of a covered truck, rested on stands under an insistent snowfall as an Orthodox priest performed ...