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Russia retains a heightened military presence on Ukraine’s border, having pulled back “less than 10 percent” of its forces since tensions between the countries peaked in November, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Sunday. “The biggest part (of troops) is still…
Russian police on Sunday arrested seven people protesting outside the Moscow headquarters of the FSB, Russia’s security service, rights group OVD-Info reported. Several dozen protestors gathered outside the infamous Lublyanka building for an unauthorised demonstration against what they say are…
The Orthodox Patriarch has welcomed the creation of an Orthodox church in Ukraine independent of Moscow and invited its leader to Istanbul to receive official confirmation of its status. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the leading authority in Orthodox Christianity,…
The Russian Far East region of Primorye Sunday held a rare election re-run Sunday after protests over vote-rigging allegations led Moscow to order a fresh vote, the first such case in modern Russia. The re-run comes three months after an…
Six children and four adults died in house fires in several Russian cities on Sunday, Russian media reported. Three toddlers died in a house fire in a village in Bashkortostan, a region south of the Ural mountains, news agency RIA…
Ukraine is home to millions of believers of the Orthodox Church. But their loyalties are divided between the Kiev and Moscow patriarchies. On Saturday, a historic council of Orthodox bishops in Kiev created a new Ukrainian church independent from Russia….
A historic council of Orthodox bishops in Kiev has created a new Ukrainian church independent from Russia, President Petro Poroshenko announced on Saturday. The announcement came after Ukrainian priests held a historic synod in Kiev’s 11th-century Saint Sophia Cathedral to…
Yepifaniy, who was on Saturday elected the head of Ukraine’s new Orthodox church, is known as a critic of Moscow’s religious influence in Ukraine and even helped Kiev’s army in their struggle against the pro-Russian independence movement. Yepifaniy, whose secular…
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Saturday told a historic synod of Orthodox bishops that Kiev’s national security depends on “spiritual independence” from Moscow. Poroshenko addressed Ukrainian priests in Kiev’s 11th-century Saint Sophia Cathedral, where the clerics met to work towards establishing…
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