Russian President Vladimir Putin's use of Orthodox Christianity as a strategic tool to restore Russia’s Imperial status has revived the Russian people’s sense of exceptionalism.

How Vladimir Putin Found God: Inside The Russian President's Religion & Invasion Of Ukraine. Source: Mega. Connor Surmonte. April 4 2022, Published 3:38 p.m. ET.

VLADIMIR PUTIN'S presidency has been marked by a strong influence of the Russian Orthodox Church. But does the 69-year-old actually believe in God himself?

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, walks with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, left, to place flowers at a statue of Minin and Pozharsky, the leaders of a struggle foreign invaders in 1612 ...

The first time Rev. Aleksander Hauke-Ligowski went to the Soviet Union on a secret mission, he tried to pass himself off as a professional photographer. Trouble was, he wasn`t carrying any cameras-… ...

Does not God see all this, the critic asks, ... In my view, we have no need to be anxious for the future of religion in Russia and certainly not for the effects of our present close partnership with ...

“The Russian Orthodox church is part of a bulwark of Russian nationalism stirred up by Vladimir Putin,” David Aikman, author of “One Nation Without God,” told Christianity Today ...

Between 1991 and 2008, the share of Russian adults identifying as Orthodox Christian rose from 31% to 72%, according to data from the International Social Survey Programme. During the same period, the ...

The Jehovah’s Witnesses are a Christian religion in which believers submit to the authority of a single God and eschew military service. They have existed in Russia since 1891 and were ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and a long-standing ally of President Vladimir Putin, on Sunday urged the Kremlin to be moderate in new legislatio… ...

Russia has seen an 11 percentage point increase since 2002 in the share who say belief in God is necessary to have good values, while Ukraine has seen an 11-point drop. Aside from Russia, only two ...