'MATILDA' FILM ON LAST CZAR'S AFFAIR, SPARKS CONTROVERSY IN RUSSIA

Putin's push for national pride and increasing support for the Orthodox Church helped stoke opposition to the film... READ MORE›

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25 YEARS LATER: 7 SHOCKWAVES FROM BREAKUP OF SOVIET UNION

The Soviet Union broke up without a civil war, thank God, says Yevgeny Roizman, 54, a historian and mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia's third-largest city, which borders Siberia... READ MORE›

WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE MISS THE SOVIET UNION?

Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union's dissolution at the end of the year... READ MORE›

IN 1983 WAR SCARE, SOVIET LEADERSHIP FEARED NUCLEAR SURPRISE ATTACK BY U.S.

In 1983 we may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger the review concluded... READ MORE›

MOSCOW FINALLY APPROVES MONUMENT TO CELEBRATE AUTHOR MIKHAIL BULGAKOV

Svetlana Brezhneva, who teaches Russian literature in a school in the Moscow suburb of Troitsk, was visiting Bulgakov House on Sunday with two of her students... READ MORE›

ST PETERSBURG METRO BOMBING SUSPECT 'FROM KYRGYZSTAN'

Russian and Krygz investigators said on Tuesday that Akbarzhon Jalilov, a 22-year-old Kyrgyz-born Russian national, was the prime suspect in the deadly bombing... READ MORE›

SOVIET LEADER GORBACHEV SAYS A NEW UNION COULD RISE AGAIN

Gorbachev may well have a rose-tinted view of the Soviet Union, but many in Russia feel the same... READ MORE›

UNITY CALL AS POPE FRANCIS HOLDS HISTORIC TALKS WITH RUSSIAN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH

The Roman Catholic Church has more than a billion members worldwide, while the Russian Orthodox Church numbers about 165 million... READ MORE›

RUSSIA EXHUMES CZAR NICHOLAS II IN SLAYINGS PROBE

But in July this year, at the request of the Russian Orthodox Church, further identification tests were ordered, according to officials... READ MORE›

PRESTIGE OF RUSSIAN MILITARY SERVICE DOUBLES IN THE LAST 5 YEARS

Prestige of Russian military service doubles in the last 5 years -- RT Russian politics... READ MORE›

BRITAIN'S RUSSOPHOBIC HAWKS SHOULD BE CAST BACK TO SWINGING 60S IF WE WANT NEW EAST-WEST DETENTE

It's worth pointing out that at this time it wasn't just left-wingers like Wilson who supported improved relations with the Soviet Union... READ MORE›

Putin is under Satan's influence leader of Kiev Orthodox Church... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN PATRIARCH'S UK VISIT TO BUILD TRUST BETWEEN RUSSIAN & BRITISH BELIEVERS

In October 1962, the Moscow Patriarchate's Diocese of Sourozh was founded, which is the Russian Orthodox Church's official and largest branch inside Great Britain and Ireland... READ MORE›

When asked, he acknowledged that other religious bodies in the Soviet Union were also co-opted by the K... READ MORE›

?ROWDS SURROUND ST PETERSBURG RELIGIOUS MUSEUM, PROTESTING ITS TRANSITION TO ORTHODOX CHURCH

At least 500 believers joined the sacred procession led by Russian Orthodox Church officials around the cathedral, singing prayers, Ruptly reported... READ MORE›

MOSCOW PATRIARCHATE OPPOSES IDEA OF LENIN BURIAL AS 'UNTIMELY'

Of course we must return original Russian names to streets, towns, and cities... READ MORE›

HOW THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ANSWERS PUTIN'S PRAYERS IN UKRAINE

Andrew the First-Called Foundation, which helped reunite Kirill's Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, which separated from the ROC in the 1920s... READ MORE›

MEETING OF POPE AND PATRIARCH HIGHLIGHTS ANCIENT RIFTS, CURRENT FEARS

On Sunday, Kirill will celebrate Mass at Havana's Russian Orthodox Church... READ MORE›

RUSSIANS STILL REGRET USSR COLLAPSE, BUT BELIEVE RESTORATION UNREALISTIC

As years go by our citizens get firmer in their opinion that the Soviet Union could have been saved... READ MORE›

ANALYSIS | WHY RUSSIA HAS TWO ST. PATRICK'S DAYS THIS YEAR

While the Catholic Church adopted the Gregorian calendar in the 16th century, the Russian Orthodox Church still uses the older Julian calendar... READ MORE›

THE OTHER TIME MOSCOW WENT TO FIGHT FOR AN EMBATTLED ARAB LEADER

However, like many conflicts of the era, the Soviet Union played a role, too... READ MORE›

GRAVE VISIT COUPLE ASKED TO REMOVE EQUAL MARRIAGE STICKER FROM CAR IN CHURCH CAR PARK

The incident happened on Sunday afternoon in the car park of a Russian Orthodox Church in Harold's Cross... READ MORE›

MEET YOSIF STALIN, A CHILD OF THE USSR LIVING IN KREMLIN, VIRGINIA

'Nobody calls me Stalin' Yosif was not the first child of an African-American to be born in the Soviet Union... READ MORE›

POPE AND RUSSIAN ORTHODOX LEADER TO MEET IN CUBA

The meeting between Francis and Patriarch Kirill will be the first ever between the leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches... READ MORE›

When asked, he acknowledged that other religious bodies in the Soviet Union were also co-opted by the K... READ MORE›

WHY POPE AND PATRIARCH MEETING MATTERS IN MOSCOW

The Vatican has been pushing for such a meeting since the collapse of the Soviet Union but Moscow had always resisted... READ MORE›

CHERNOBYL: TIMELINE OF A NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE

4 at Chernobyl's nuclear power station in the former Soviet Union... READ MORE›

WORLD'S LARGEST PLANE TOUCHES DOWN IN AUSTRALIA

Perth Airport spokeswoman Fiona Lander explained the reasoning behind the layovers... READ MORE›

OUTRAGE IN RUSSIA AFTER RELIGIOUS LEADERS BACK FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

Two prominent religious leaders in Russia have provoked outrage after suggesting female genital mutilation could help reduce sexual promiscuity... READ MORE›

IN HISTORIC ENCOUNTER WITH LEADER OF RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH, POPE SET TO MEET STAUNCH KREMLIN ALLY

Read more Michael Birnbaum is The Post's Moscow bureau chief... READ MORE›

SOVIET DELEGATION ARRIVES IN OTTAWA TO LEARN THE SECRETS OF CANADIAN BEER BREWING

With that aim in mind, in 1980 a Soviet delegation arrived in Ottawa to learn the secrets of Canadian brewing... READ MORE›