Orthodox priests from Russia are facing repression for opposing Russian policies and the invasion of Ukraine. Many have fled, facing difficulties in resettling, such as finding jobs and learning ...

A number of Orthodox priests who are against Russia's invasion of Ukraine have sought refuge in Germany, where they face many challenges. After Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in ...

SOFIA - Nikolai Balashov, a senior Russian Orthodox priest sanctioned by Ukraine and reportedly a former KGB colonel general, was granted entry into Bulgaria following the Patriarch’s invitation ...

Local media showed people bathing in Novosibirsk, Murmansk, and South Ossetia, as well as Russian soldiers ... state," one military priest said. Across Russia, the Orthodox devout celebrate ...

McDonald's Ukraine said on Saturday that its ... with another three people injured in the Shevchenkivskyi district after the Russian attack. Kyiv authorities said a building was "partially ...

Brendan joined Newsweek in 2018 from the International Business Times and well as English, knows Russian and French ... destroying a McDonald's restaurant and rupturing a water main.

Quote: "Today, during an aerial attack on Kyiv, a McDonald's restaurant near the Lukianivska metro station was damaged. Open since 1997, this was our chain's first restaurant in Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

Military medic Natalya carried a jug of water blessed by priests at the Sviatogirsk monastery in eastern Ukraine as she celebrated Orthodox Epiphany in a Russian-affiliated church, despite the war.