Russian history is a list of famous freemasons, from Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Kutuzov, to the tsars Peter III, Alexander I and Paul I. Despite that heritage, it has been a favourite target for ...

Russia's FSB security service said on Friday it had arrested two church figures suspected of plotting to kill a priest close to President Vladimir Putin on the orders of a Ukrainian spy agency.

The Kremlin condemned the alleged assassination ... In 2023, Shevkunov was appointed to the senior church rank of metropolitan of Crimea, the peninsula which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.