The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five successive Fridays of Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is dedicated ...

Alexei Navalny is dead. And yet he lives. He lives to trouble Vladimir Putin, the authoritarian strongman of Russia who may ...

“Orthodox change nothing,” Father Sava adds. “The faith that was delivered to the saints,” Martin agrees. We pause before a ...

The Russian Orthodox Church has a long history of close links to the Kremlin. It also has a key role in justifying the ...

On the third anniversary of Bucha’s liberation from Russian forces, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, First Lady Olena Zelenska and a foreign delegation from nearly 20 countries honoured the ...

The southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa was engulfed in flames late Thursday after being struck by a large-scale Russian drone attack, hours after US President Donald Trump expressed optimism ...

Russia is preparing a major new offensive to capture more Ukrainian territory amid Donald Trump’s ongoing diplomatic interventions, Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed, despite Russian advances ...

Ukraine faced grim military and diplomatic developments over the past week, as Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected a complete ceasefire by suggesting there were “issues” that needed ...

This is not just eccentric provocation by MAGA attention-seekers; it is a window into a serious, philosophical concordance that is emerging between parts of the American and Russian right.

Updated at 9:59 with a message from Ukrzaliznytsia’s press service.] [Updated at 9:59]: In the early hours of March 19, Russian forces used drones to strike the railway power system in the ...

In February 2025, he lit candles in a Russian Orthodox church for, as his Telegram channel puts it, the “defenders of the fatherland”—a reference to Russian soldiers in Ukraine and prayed for the ...