For Russians, and the Russian Orthodox Church, the Ukrainian Church is a symbolically important part of the Russian Orthodox community, not least because some believe the city of Kiev to be the birthplace of the Russian Orthodox tradition.
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Correction: this article has been updated to reflect the fact that the schism means Russian Orthodox faithful may not receive sacraments at Constantinople-affiliated Orthodox churches, rather than non-Russian Orthodox churches.
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Well, "real" in the eyes of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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That is how the Russian Orthodox faithful treat religious icons.
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It is the Serbian Orthodox Church, not the Russian Orthodox.
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Today, they are a threat to the Russian Orthodox establishment.
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As a proud Russian Orthodox he was enraged by the betrayal.
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Near one of the forests, I saw some Russian Orthodox nuns.
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What did the Russian Orthodox Church have to do with it?
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But the Russian Orthodox Church has long resisted overtures from the Vatican.
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Meanwhile the Kremlin, and the closely aligned Russian Orthodox Church, are furious.
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The Russian Orthodox Church sent its number two to the Bari meeting.
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We had, in 2000, 22 monasteries for the entire Russian Orthodox church.
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Markov took this photograph of a Russian Orthodox cemetery in Zholoman, Kazakhstan.
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He clashed with the Russian Orthodox Church, and was excommunicated in 1901.
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"Russians, Buryats, Kazakhs, Old Believers," an offshoot of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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The Russian Orthodox Church is an important part of religious life in Russia.
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Yet in London there has been a Russian Orthodox church for 300 years.
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The other was Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, head of the Russian Orthodox church.
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How have the Russian government and the Russian Orthodox Church transformed their cultures?
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Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill made a last ditch appeal against the process last month.
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Historically, there existed particular enmity between the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church.
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The Russian Orthodox Church declared itself an independent entity and named its own patriarch.
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The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox church practically campaigns for Mr Putin's re-election.
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A Russian Orthodox believer bathes in a pond in Krasnoye Selo outside St. Petersburg.
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Putin later went on to visit a newly opened Russian Orthodox cathedral in Paris.
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"These are flowers from the shrine of Marianna, a Russian Orthodox saint," Vanya explains.
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The Russian Orthodox tradition of selaviq, also known as starring, is celebrated in Alaska.
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The Russian Orthodox Church is among the most influential churches in the Orthodox world.
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Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill made a last ditch appeal this week against the process.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Pope Francis and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church meet in Havana on Friday, nearly 1,000 years after Eastern Orthodoxy split with Rome, for the first encounter in history between a Roman Catholic pope and a Russian Orthodox patriarch.
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One of the main interests in the area is the 'Old Believers', Russian Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as they existed prior to the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666.
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The Russian Orthodox Church responded by severing ties with Constantinople, warning of a historic schism.
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"You know the position of the Russian Orthodox Church on this issue," Peskov told reporters.
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On that day, Orban allocated an additional 313 million forints to the Russian Orthodox church.
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The Russian Orthodox Church has already protested by breaking off ties with Istanbul in September.
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The Russian Orthodox Church has nearly 400 bishops, many more than other Orthodox churches have.
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The Russian Orthodox Church has the wealth and political backing needed to assert itself globally.
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The Russian Orthodox Church has canonized him as martyr of an idealized, God-fearing past.
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Russian Orthodox churches have no pews, she said, and her feet were beginning to hurt.
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Critics of the Moscow Patriarchate say it is under the thumb of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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That support has allowed the Russian Orthodox Church to grow exceptionally powerful over the past decade.
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Ms Vasilieva, a historian specialising in the Russian Orthodox church, presents herself as an unabashed reactionary.
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Vsevolod Chaplin, a high-profile Russian Orthodox priest, wrote a column on the tabloid website Life.
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The move is opposed by the Kremlin, Russian Orthodox Church and some of Poroshenko's political opponents.
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The Russian Orthodox Church claims 150 million followers, or half the estimated 300 million Orthodox worldwide.
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There are no neighbors for miles other than a nunnery run by the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Several of them wore head scarves, a common adornment for many women who are Russian Orthodox.
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The pope is also pursuing unity, or at least better relations, with the Russian Orthodox Church.
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When he arrived for the meeting, he discovered that the source was a Russian Orthodox priest.
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Russian-Orthodox missionaries fanned out into the wilderness in an effort to convert the native population.
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Lenin fomented appalling bloodshed and destroyed the Russian Orthodox Church, a pillar of Mr. Putin's support.
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The Russian Orthodox Church has considered western Ukraine its traditional territory and has resented papal influence there.
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Harsh laws targeted "gay propaganda"; the Russian Orthodox church came to exert ever more influence over culture.
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Peresvet, one of Russia's top 50 lenders at the time, was controlled by the Russian Orthodox Church.
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He is Patriarch Cyril of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, not Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Earlier this year, he held a historic meeting with Kirill, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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But that has done little to douse the hostility from the Russian Orthodox Church and its adherents.
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I just got news that patriarchal Russian Orthodox Church came up with the idea of banning abortions.
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Both the government and the powerful Russian Orthodox church commend traditional family hierarchies, which privilege the man.
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Jawlensky died in 1941, at 77, and was buried in the Russian Orthodox cemetery at Wiesbaden, Germany.
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The Moscow Patriarchate is part of the Russian Orthodox Church and has a sizeable following in Ukraine.
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Jewish-Russian Orthodox relations have been in a delicate but broadly improving state since the fall of communism.
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In Latvia, several attempts to accommodate the Russian Orthodox minority by recognising January 7th have been voted down.
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A Russian Orthodox believer bathes in the icy water on Epiphany in the Neva River in St.Petersburg, Russia.
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The Russian Orthodox Church is closely aligned with the Kremlin, which is in turn an ally of Cuba.
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Also interesting are the old Russian Orthodox settlements from around the time of the Alaska Purchase in 216.50.
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Ninilchik, about 2130 minutes outside Homer, has a Russian Orthodox Church built in 211 and an adjoining cemetery.
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In between invariably hopeless clashes with officialdom and the Russian Orthodox Church, everyone swigs vodka and gets depressed.
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The Yekaterinburg cathedral issue was also about limits, in this case on the state-backed Russian Orthodox Church.
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Visitors tour the stockade, the Russian Orthodox chapel and a windmill like the one used by the settlers.
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Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill I, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, met in Cuba on Feb.
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SOCHI, Russia - Braving cold temperatures, Russian Orthodox Christians ran into the Black Sea on Tuesday to mark Epiphany.
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Fighting homosexuality has been a recurrent theme for Mr. Milonov, 43, a champion of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Throughout its history, the Russian Orthodox Church was subservient to the state and an unshakable supporter of autocracy.
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The main objections have come from the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow and ethnic Russians living in Kazakhstan.
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Now, officials in the Russian Orthodox Church are looking to stop the practice of blessing weapons of mass destruction.
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Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, center, makes an offering to Cuban independence hero Jose Marti in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Feb.
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Unlike many Slavophiles, he hated the Russian traditions of despotism and the Russian Orthodox worship of czar and throne.
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At one end of Ostozhenka Street is a golden-domed Russian Orthodox church, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
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The white, red and blue Russian flag was draped on the casket as a Russian Orthodox priest recited prayers.
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California homeowners win the battle against manufacturers that sold them lead paint; the Russian Orthodox Church splits from Constantinople.
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Correction: An earlier version of this story stated that Vissarion's philosophy is inspired by the Russian Orthodox Church and Buddhism.
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He is also known as a big supporter of the Russian Orthodox Church, and has reportedly funded anti-LGBT organizations.
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During somber passages of the slow movement, the dusky lower strings had the character of a Russian Orthodox male choir.
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For the change to happen, Patriarch Kirill—the head of the Russian Orthodox Church—would have to approve the proposal.
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The Russian Orthodox Church, meanwhile, refuses to acknowledge these skeletons as royal remains — and they are not alone in disbelief.
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He has asked to see a Russian Orthodox priest, Mr. Ivetic said, but has not yet been offered a meeting.
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In the same gallery, a photomontage depicts a bulldozer dropping a rabbi and a Russian Orthodox priest to the ground.
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Lately, relations have been strained by Ukraine's effort to establish its own Orthodox Church, separate from the Russian Orthodox Church.
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The Ascension of Our Lord Chapel, a Russian Orthodox Church, is the oldest extant church in Alaska, built in 1888.
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Protests have emerged even from some of those who normally support the Kremlin, like priests in the Russian Orthodox church.
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More recently, the Russian Orthodox Church has accused the Catholic Church of poaching converts in Russia and Ukraine, core Orthodox territory.
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On the face of the things, there will always be limits to the relationship between the Russian Orthodox and America's evangelicals.
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A Russian Orthodox woman bathes in a small icy cold water pond as the air temperature drops to 14 degrees Fahrenheit.
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A Russian Orthodox man holds a young girl as they bathe in a small icy cold water pond in Dubna, Russia.
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On February 12th Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox church, will meet in Cuba.
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" So says a Russian Orthodox priest with KGB ties being interrogated by the FBI in the series finale of "The Americans.
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"What does this film bring?" she said on Tsargard TV, a privately owned channel that promotes Russian Orthodox and nationalist views.
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Artists rallied outside the Gogol Center in support of Kirill Serebrennikov, an outspoken critic of Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Photo: Pavel Golovkin (AP)The devil is in the downloads, says Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Savvidis is reportedly close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and has also been honored by the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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But he also has encouraged the steady growth of power and influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and conservative elements in society.
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Undoing the splits The Pope of the Roman Catholic Church meets with the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church in Cuba today.
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More than 70 percent of Russians today identify as Russian Orthodox, up from 30 percent at the end of the Soviet Union.
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In recent weeks, Mr Putin has replaced his education minister and children's rights ombudsman with figures close to the Russian Orthodox church.
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Social conservatism, or so-called "Christian values" as espoused by the Russian Orthodox Church, are additional building blocks of Russia's new ideology.
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Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church, seen here performing Christmas Mass in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow on Jan.
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As president, he has become a frequent attender of Russian Orthodox ceremonies, and has given the church a major voice in society.
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In 1996, the Russian Orthodox Church briefly severed ties with Constantinople over the fate of the Estonian Church, which likewise sought independence.
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The church known as the Moscow Patriarchate, aligned with the Russian Orthodox Church, sees itself as the only legitimate church in Ukraine.
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Russia's President is due to hold talks with Francis against the backdrop of warming relations between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church.
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The Russian Orthodox Church is the largest and most influential in the Orthodox world, and it wields great power and influence in Russia.
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Mr Graham also gave a warm welcome to Russian Orthodox grandees at a conference in Washington on religious freedom in the Middle East.
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Its leaders also talk up the Russian Orthodox Church's links to Georgia and warn that closer integration with Europe could damage Georgian traditions.
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In 22014, after Germany's surprise attack on the Soviet western front, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church recited it like an incantation.
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The Russian Orthodox Church, which is closely allied with the Kremlin, is pushing into Western Europe with Vladimir Putin's gospel of cultural conservatism.
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Lithuania is 80 percent Catholic; Lutherans and Russian Orthodox count more followers in Latvia and Estonia, where Francis visits on Monday and Tuesday.
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They belong to one of 14 nationally centered churches — such as the Greek Orthodox or Russian Orthodox Church — in communion with one another.
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But we also know that the FBI is hot on the tail of a Russian Orthodox priest — and that's probably Father Andrei, right?
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At the end of the night, she gave me a cupcake she made to celebrate Russian Orthodox Easter, which was the following day.
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Metropolitan Hilarion of the Russian Orthodox Church, speaking at the same event, lambasted those who destroyed the czarist state rather than seeking compromise.
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Compounding the surprise of seeing so many Russians was trying to discern who was Greek Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox (Antioch rite) or Russian Orthodox.
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He has been a leading advocate of gun rights in Russia and of more closely linking the government and the Russian Orthodox Church.
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The Russian Orthodox Church and Russian nationalists protested what they interpreted as a sellout to the West and an attack on Russian culture.
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It is a decision facing thousands of clerics as Ukraine prepares to sever ties to the Russian Orthodox Church going back to 1686.
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At the main Russian Orthodox Cathedral, a woman dusting the wall of icons overheard a question about the town's age to Archpriest Nikolai Kotelnikov.
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The Russian Orthodox Church interceded, questioning — not for the first time — whether any of the remains were authentic, and the service was postponed indefinitely.
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" Russia, on the other hand, was a "state civilisation reinforced by the Russian people, the Russian language, Russian culture and the Russian Orthodox church.
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Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill wrote to all branches of the Orthodox world, calling for talks to discuss the situation around church life in Ukraine.
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In some of his works, Serebrennikov has particularly poked fun at the growing role of the state and the Russian Orthodox Church in society.
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In June, RRDB took over the troubled bank Peresvet, which was controlled by the Russian Orthodox Church, and Polunin became the head of Peresvet.
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Francis has made ecumenical outreach a priority and in February became the first pope to meet with the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Putin draws some of his authority from a close relationship to the Russian Orthodox Church; Kadyrov relies on a crude homespun version of Islam.
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Mr Sooy is a leader of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship, an anti-violence fraternity whose founders belong to the Russian Orthodox parish in Amsterdam.
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Built in the 10th century by an Armenian king, it was turned into a mosque three times and once into a Russian Orthodox church.
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It says it is autonomous from the Russian Orthodox Church, and many of its followers feel they are unfairly cast as "stooges" of Moscow.
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At the center of this effort has been Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and a close ally of Mr. Putin.
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That movie, Matilda, portrays a love affair by the last Russian tsar, Nikolas II, who was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
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This was and is a visionary nonfiction epic written by an artist in the Russian Orthodox, old-regime tradition of Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy.
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One creative observer imagined how the interior of a futuristic car might be decorated with Russian Orthodox icons, a favorite of many local drivers.
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Full of quotations from his previous works, and from the Russian Orthodox vespers, the score suggests a return to Russia and to the past.
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And later, Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, gave Mr. Putin an 18th century icon while blessing him for his new term.
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The Russian Orthodox Church retaliated by breaking off all ties with Istanbul and accused the United States of engineering the split behind the scenes.
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Critics of Ukraine's plan for an independent church say it could lead to violence and forced takeovers of churches loyal to the Russian Orthodox Church.
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But it's also home to a 300-year-old Russian Orthodox monastery, dedicated to one Russia's holiest of men, the mystic Saint Seraphim of Sarov.
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The 88-year-old Filaret was a senior figure in the Russian Orthodox church before he defied his Muscovite masters and broke away in 1992.
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This involved dispiriting meetings with the leaders of the Russian Orthodox church, in which he noted their unpleasant views, worldly lifestyle and terror of competition.
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This year, for some rank-and-file Russian Orthodox believers, the story of a just man unfairly accused but ultimately vindicated has even greater poignancy.
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As the Russian Orthodox believers left the small, Christian chapel in Zalavar, with the smell of incense lingering, priests removed Russian icons from the walls.
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" The meeting, which took place at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, was the first encounter between a pope and a Russian Orthodox patriarch. "Finally!
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Unfortunately we received threats from extremists affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church stating that they will beat up and even kill people attending both shows.
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Pussy Riot came to prominence in 2012 when its members were jailed for staging a protest against Putin in a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Moscow.
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But Francis measured his words carefully, in an apparent attempt not to hurt the Vatican's increasingly warm ties with the Kremlin-backed Russian Orthodox Church.
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They all belonged to the "Russian World" — a concept promoted by both the Kremlin and Patriarch Kirill I, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Ukrainians comprise up to 40 percent of the current Russian Orthodox Church, and tend to attend services at double the rates of their Russian neighbors.
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Shortly before his death in 2013 at the age of 94, he laid out his doubts in a letter to the Russian Orthodox patriarch, Kirill.
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In 1929, when Michail Ustinoff became the choirmaster of a Russian Orthodox Church in Leipzig, the family moved there, and young Nikolai soon acquired German.
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In practice, it affects members of non-Russian-Orthodox religious groups, including Jehovah's Witnesses, members of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, and Protestant Christians.
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Fyodorov believed that humanity needed to be liberated from death to achieve perfection, a view shaped by his Russian Orthodox Christian faith, especially its resurrection stories.
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Elsewhere in Russia, under a crash building programme decreed by the Russian Orthodox church, at least three new churches are said to be opening per day.
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An Orthodox priest holds a Cross as a man dips into the icy waters near Minsk, Belarus Russian Orthodox believers in a pond outside Simferopol, Crimea.
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The Russian leader was scheduled to come to Paris to inaugurate a new Russian Orthodox cathedral and visit a Russian art exhibition in the French capital.
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The Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow has called the leaders of the Ukrainian Church charlatans and schismatics, and President Vladimir Putin has warned of possible bloodshed.
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Most of the new proposals highlight ideological positions Mr. Putin has supported for years, blending social conservatism, Soviet nostalgia and support for the Russian Orthodox Church.
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In response, the Russian Orthodox Church announced on Monday following a synod, or gathering of bishops, in Minsk that it would sever all ties with Constantinople.
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A controversial Russian Orthodox cleric and blogger, the Church's former spokesman Vsevolod Chaplin, backed Berdiyev saying that Muslims had a right to a "time-honoured tradition".
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Kazimir Malevich deployed the Russian Orthodox crucifix, sometimes with the angled footrest (or suppedaneum), as he does in "Mystic Suprematism (Black Cross on Red Oval)" (1920).
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The head of the Russian Orthodox Church says the data-gathering capacity of devices such as smartphones risks bringing humanity closer to the arrival of the Antichrist.
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In a failed attempt to hide the timepiece, the Russian Orthodox Church photoshopped it from his wrist, but overlooked its reflection in the shiny table surface below.
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But as Cardinal Parolin pointed out, the leadership of the Russian Orthodox church regards the very existence of the eastern-rite Catholics in Ukraine as an "obstacle".
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Michael Petyo is a carpenter, a U.S. Navy veteran, a grandfather and Russian Orthodox church cantor who likes to boast about his homemade nut rolls.
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Earlier this year, he held a historic meeting with Kirill, the patriarch of the Kremlin-back Russian Orthodox Church, the largest and most influential in world Orthodoxy.
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The Russian Orthodox Church, which also controls affiliated branches of Orthodoxy in much of the former Soviet Union, has many more followers than the Istanbul-based hierarchy.
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Ukraine in October secured approval to set up an independent church from the Ecumenical Patriarch, a move fiercely opposed by the Russian orthodox church and the Kremlin.
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Greece last summer denied visas to several high-ranking Russian Orthodox Church officials headed to Athos, in which President Vladimir V. Putin has shown a keen interest.
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In Russia, Vladimir Putin revisits the past in his own curious way, merging Soviet nostalgia with the czar's role as the defender of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, is to lead a funeral service for the diplomat at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.
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The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the birth of Jesus in early January, so the holiday markets could stay open for weeks longer and still find eager crowds.
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The Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which had for centuries been effectively under the control of the Russian Orthodox Church, declared its independence and set up a national Church.
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Putin has aligned himself closely with the Russian Orthodox Church and Moscow strongly opposed the move, saying it had been done for political rather than religious motives.
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As Helen Rappaport vividly describes in "The Race to Save the Romanovs", King George and Queen Mary then attended a memorial service at London's only Russian Orthodox chapel.
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But the Russian Orthodox Church, the second-largest single Christian denomination after Catholicism, has resisted overtures from several consecutive popes, and for that reason today's meeting holds significance.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - At a humble service at a Moscow Russian Orthodox church on Sunday morning, Father Igor led a prayer to help China prevail against the coronavirus epidemic.
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At least five people were killed and four wounded when a gunman opened fire with hunting rifles on people leaving a Sunday service at a Russian Orthodox church.
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Pope and patriarch sat down together, the first meeting of the leaders of the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches since the branches splintered nearly 1,000 years ago.
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AS ONE might expect, the definitions of freedom offered by the liberal secular West and by the current leadership of the Russian Orthodox church are sharply at odds.
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It would mean colluding with the Soviet regime's claim to respect religious freedom, and with the politically subservient Russian Orthodox church's insistence that there was no real persecution.
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"We have cut the last chain that connected us to Moscow and its fantasies about Ukraine as the canonical territory of the Russian Orthodox Church," said Mr Poroshenko.
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One sore point remains the fate of church properties that Soviet dictator Josef Stalin confiscated from Eastern Rite Catholics in Ukraine and gave to the Russian Orthodox there.
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Such a crude dichotomy could be also be found in some hard-line Russian quarters; but the best Russian Orthodox thinkers had something much more subtle to propose.
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The video was posted on a popular and well-connected Russian Orthodox website which is far from being a nest of liberal thinking, on theology or anything else.
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On his way to Mexico, Francis stopped in Cuba for several hours, where he held a historic meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the Russian Orthodox church emerged from decades of oppression to find post-communist politicians ready to help re-establish its role.
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Around the shrine, on April 255, 2282, Dmitry Enteo and the members of God's Will, his Russian Orthodox activist group, shouted anti-blasphemy slogans and theatrically crossed themselves.
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Settled by Poles, Lithuanians, Russian Orthodox, Roma, Belorussians, Ukrainians and the odd Tartar, this soil has soaked up a lot of blood—as much as Alsace, maybe more.
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Pussy Riot came to prominence in 2012 when its members were jailed for staging a protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Moscow.
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But after his meeting with the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill on February 12th, some were left wondering whether the pontiff had rushed in where angels fear to tread.
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I had the good fortune to hear him featured in a program of Russian Orthodox music with the St. Petersburg Chamber Choir at Alice Tully Hall in 1996.
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"We need to improve the economy now," said Irina I. Kuzmenko, who teaches the tenets of the Russian Orthodox faith to children, speaking after voting for Mr. Putin.
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In a move that won the backing of a resurgent Russian Orthodox Church, domestic violence legislation was softened earlier this year from a criminal to an administrative offense.
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Keeping a high school football team together is tough, between a Russian Orthodox sect leery of the outside world and the chores of life in an isolated village.
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TASS news agency reported earlier this month that Israel had told Russia it had begun the legal process of handing over the building to the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Mr. Torshin expected to use the reception to "make 'first contact' " with the candidate and present Mr. Trump's wife, Melania, with a gift from the Russian Orthodox Church.
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But the move is opposed by the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church, which compared it to the Great Schism of 1054 that split western and eastern Christianity.
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The respected business publication Vedomosti reported that the influential clients of Vneshprombank included Russia's foreign ministry, the oil giant Rosneft, the Russian Orthodox Church and the state Olympic committee.
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Leaders of each of Bosnia's ethnic groups — Muslim Bosnians, Catholic Croats and Russian Orthodox Serbs — rely primarily on mistrust and fear of the other groups to remain in power.
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When the Russian Orthodox church warns that making it illegal to smack one's children would violate "the understanding of parents' rights accepted by Russian culture", it is talking claptrap.
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Along with some figures on the nationalist fringe of Russian Orthodox church, he gave moral support to the leaders of the Russian-backed rebellion against the government of Ukraine.
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But some light on the matter has been shed by Sergei Chapnin, a Russian Orthodox journalist who was editor of the Patriarchate's journal until his dismissal in December 2015.
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MOSCOW – Chechnya&aposs leader says four gunmen who attacked a Russian Orthodox church in the mostly Muslim province have been killed by security forces and one policeman has died.
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In a statement, Russian Orthodox Church spokesman Vladimir Legoyda claimed it was the provocative nature of Sokolovsky's video—and not playing the game itself—that led to his arrest.
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Although the amounts are small, some analysts and critics see the bolstering of the Russian Orthodox Church with state cash as significant in the context of Russian-Hungarian relations.
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" Since his election in 2013, Francis has made concerted efforts to heal the breach between Catholics and Russian Orthodox Christians, telling Kirill in 2014: "I'll go wherever you want.
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Mr Putin walked down to the Kremlin cathedrals to the sound of Mikhail Glinka's "Glory to the Tsar" and was blessed by the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox church.
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The biggest of these, the Russian Orthodox Church, covers not only Russia, but also fragile new states like Moldova that formerly belonged to the Russian and later Soviet empires.
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He was a simple and rough Siberian peasant, and his unencumbered Russian Orthodox faith suggested to the Petersburg elite that he had a pure connection to the Christian God.
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Yet the Russian Orthodox Church continues to pose more questions, hinting at the darkest of conspiracies: Were the remains that were later exhumed really those of the imperial family?
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In 2016, Francis met with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, the first such meeting of the two church leaders in about 400 years.
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A memorial service was to be held in the Christ the Savior cathedral, the main cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church, which Mr. Luzhkov helped rebuild in the 1990s.
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This declaration of independence came about despite months of behind-the-scenes attempts by the Kremlin and Russian Orthodox Church officials to dissuade Patriarch Bartholomew from issuing a tomos.
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The next day, the Russian Orthodox Church decided to sever ties with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, though it stopped short of encouraging other Orthodox churches to do so too.
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The Ukrainian Orthodox Church under Patriarch Filaret is leading a drive to establish a national church independent of the Russian Orthodox Church in the face of strong opposition from Moscow.
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Held in the hulking Russian Orthodox Naval Cathedral of St Nicholas, sailors cradled lit candles and looked on as priests read out prayers and a choir chanted in the background.
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Notably absent from the gathering was Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, which has been a strong supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin&aposs military intervention in Syria.
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When the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church called for a ban in Russia, the country's minister of health explained that this had been tried for a time under Stalin.
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The charges levied against Sokolovsky stem from the arrest of two members of the punk collective Pussy Riot for staging a protest against Vladimir Putin at a Russian Orthodox church.
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Though Russian investment pales compared with that of the European Union countries, Serbia has a natural affinity to its Russian Orthodox brethren and remembers Russian support during the Kosovo war.
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He contrasted this with an ethnically defined version of Russia as "a state civilisation held together by the Russian people, the Russian language, Russian culture and the Russian Orthodox Church".
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Looking ahead: Pope Francis holds a historic meeting with the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church in Cuba on Friday and then heads to Mexico for a six-day visit.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, will meet Britain's Queen Elizabeth during a visit to London this weekend, Russia's TASS news agency reported on Thursday.
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Klara Kispal, a pensioner on holiday in Heviz, said she agreed with Orban's anti-migration policies but she could not support paying for a Russian Orthodox church in the town.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Patriarch Filaret was defrocked and excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox church, and accused by his opponents of being a KGB agent, having a secret family and embezzling money.
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By contrast, Catherine by then spoke fluent Russian, had become a strict adherent to the Russian Orthodox religion, observed Russian court traditions and developed a strong grasp of Russian history.
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The attack comes amid rising tensions between Kiev and Moscow over Ukraine's decision to create a new national independent church and severing centuries-old ties with the Russian Orthodox Church.
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The Russian Orthodox Church and the Kremlin often operate in tandem, and Patriarch Kirill could not have agreed to meet the pope without the blessing of Russia's president, Vladimir Putin.
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The Russian Orthodox Church on Monday moved to sever all ties with the Constantinople Patriarchate, the Orthodox mother church, to protest its moves toward creating an independent church in Ukraine.
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That move would prevent the Russian Orthodox faithful from taking part in any sacraments, such as communion or baptism, at any churches under the aegis of the Constantinople Patriarchate worldwide.
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The Butovo Poligon, or firing range, outside Moscow where more than 20,000 political prisoners were shot and buried in mass graves has been turned into a Russian Orthodox memorial site.
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In 2017, a commission of the Russian Orthodox Church investigated the assassinations of Czar Nicholas II and his family and several members concluded that they had been Jewish ritual murders.
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Both have dedicated themselves to defending Christians and their faith — Mr. Trump through his "religious freedom" initiatives and Mr. Putin through his strengthening of ties to the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Levi Hernandez as Shuisky, a backer of the Godunovs; Joseph Barron as Basmanov, a steadfast supporter of Dimitrij; and Peixin Chen as Jove, a Russian Orthodox patriarch, were all strong.
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Then he went one step further, inviting all children of American diplomats accredited in Russia to celebrate the New Year and the Russian Orthodox Christmas with him at the Kremlin.
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MOSCOW, Feb 16 (Reuters) - At a humble service at a Moscow Russian Orthodox church on Sunday morning, Father Igor led a prayer to help China prevail against the coronavirus epidemic.
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She cited the visit of Benedict XVI, a German pope, to Auschwitz, and a meeting in Cuba between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, said at a conference of bishops this month that Mr. Putin himself had consented to an open-ended inquiry by the church.
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Kirill, on a longer stay, will also visit Cuba's small Russian Orthodox Church, built from 2004 to 2008 and attended by Russian holdovers from the decades of Soviet influence in Cuba.
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Pope Francis is set to meet the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church in Cuba today, in a historic step to bridge the 1,000-year divide between the branches of Christianity.
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The Patriarch noted that the happiest recent event in Catholic-Russian Orthodox ties was this summer's loan to Moscow of the remains of Saint Nicholas, normally kept in an Italian cathedral.
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Seeking to prevent Ukraine's separation, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has written to all the self-governing Orthodox Churches calling for talks about the situation in Ukraine.
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Putin has spent much of the past two decades building an enduring and loyal following in Russia, including an alliance with the Russian Orthodox Church, which has fully embraced his leadership.
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In practice, critics anticipate, it will be used to shore up the near-monopoly of the Russian Orthodox church and make life pretty intolerable for non-conformists and other minority faiths.
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Lykova was raised on the family's homestead in the forest — about 90 miles from the nearest town — under the strict traditions of the Old Believers religious sect of Russian Orthodox Christianity.
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Executed by Bolsheviks in 1918, the last tsar is considered a martyr by the Russian Orthodox Church, whose influence in society has grown greatly since the fall of communism in 1991.
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Mr. Gorshkov said he stayed with the Russian Orthodox Church for many years because it was the only church in Ukraine officially recognized by Constantinople and hence all of Eastern Orthodoxy.
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In staging a contemporary production of Wagner's "Tannhauser" in Siberia, he stood accused by the Russian Orthodox Church of offending the feelings of religious believers — a misdemeanor charge that didn't stick.
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The traditionalists find comfort in the vision of Christianity promoted by Mr. Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church, which have drawn a hard line against gay marriage and changing gender roles.
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The pacifist denomination has more than 170,000 members in the country and has been targeted in a growing government campaign to banish religious groups that compete with the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Although she was interred in the royal crypt in Windsor Castle, her remains were transferred, per her wishes, to the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem in 1988.
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In a single day I visited a Russian Orthodox church in Baku as well as a Roman Catholic church, a Sunni Muslim mosque, a Shia Muslim mosque and a Jewish synagogue.
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After nearly two decades together, Philip and Elizabeth Jennings have finally, officially tied the knot, at least in the eyes of the Russian Orthodox Church, which apparently still officiates Soviet weddings.
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MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Russia vowed on Friday to defend Russian church believers in Ukraine from any illegal activity against them following Kiev's moves toward a historic split from the Russian Orthodox Church.
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But more broadly, Moscow sees itself not only as a defender of Orthodox believers everywhere, it views the lands of Ukraine with special zeal as the cradle of the Russian Orthodox faith.
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Trans people still face immense problems in modern-day Russia, where a rise in conservative attitudes, particularly concerning gender and sexuality, is being stoked by the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Under Serebrennikov's directorship, the Gogol Center had become a prominent venue for liberal and progressive projects, many of them critical of the current government and the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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They fall into two overlapping categories: members of the extended Romanov clan, along with their blue-blooded cousins and supporters; and followers of the most conservative wing of the Russian Orthodox church.
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The Russians who met with NRA representatives during the 2016 presidential campaign included members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle as well as the Russian Orthodox Church, according to the news outlet.
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We got glimpses of the agency's continuing investigation of the illegals, with F.I.S.A. warrants to search garages, Russian Orthodox priests being questioned and old and new sketches of the Jenningses being examined.
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Since then, the group has been at the center of a campaign to curtail religious groups that compete with the Russian Orthodox Church, and the authorities focused on its opposition to violence.
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The Kremlin is also trying to undermine Serbia's efforts to integrate with the West by exploiting connections between the Russian Orthodox Church and Serbians and through its near monopoly on energy supplies.
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One fan felt Russia's number one deserved more than just the man of the match award, posting a mocked up photograph on social media of Akinfeev as a haloed Russian Orthodox saint.
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Executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, Nicholas II is considered a martyr by the Russian Orthodox Church, whose influence in society has grown greatly since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Francis will meet with the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill I, the first such face-to-face since the eastern and western branches of Christianity split nearly 1,000 years ago.
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Russian stocks and the ruble have been battered as markets re-opened after the Russian Orthodox Christmas and New Year holidays amid a renewed plunge in oil prices to a 20153-year low.
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MOSCOW, April 19 (Reuters) - Russia's central bank said on Tuesday it will lend 66.7 billion roubles ($1.19 billion) to help keep troubled bank Peresvet, a lender run by the Russian Orthodox Church, afloat.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the day the Russian Orthodox Church said it would not take part in a historic conclave and the day that its opening was cast into doubt.
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But the Russian Orthodox Church has portrayed it as the biggest split in Christianity for 1,000 years and Saturday's council is taking place at a time of heightened tension between Kiev and Moscow.
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Ukraine had sought the Ecumenical Patriarchate's consent to establish an independent church and won its backing in October, prompting the Russian Orthodox Church to break off diplomatic ties with the Istanbul-based Patriarchate.
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As noted by the Art Newspaper, the FSB's search coincided with Piotrovsky's criticism of the Russian government's decision to transfer control of St Isaac's Cathedral from museum officials to the Russian Orthodox Church.
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In 2015, the Russian Orthodox Church showed its displeasure with a production of Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband" by throwing a pig's head with Mr. Tabakov's name scrawled on it at the theater.
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But Russia's fostering of a violent separatist movement in eastern Ukraine since 2014 and its seizure of Crimea the same year invigorated the move for a church independent of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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The other side, conservatives allied with the Russian Orthodox Church, argues that in accordance with the "traditional family values" espoused by President Vladimir V. Putin, the state should not interfere in domestic matters.
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Once he was dead, they believed, the public would realize that the emperor was not the demigod depicted in the teachings of the Russian Orthodox Church and would rise up against the autocracy.
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In recent years, he has moved on from horses, devoting himself instead to thundering against the Kremlin, its glorification of Russia's past and traditional values, and its embrace of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Soslan said that in 2007 security forces demanded that he disband the sect, which rejected the entanglement of the Russian Orthodox Church with the state, and threatened to kill him if he refused.
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The prosecutor's case, heard by a municipal court in Sergiyev Posad, a center of the Russian Orthodox Church, produced no evidence of extremism and focused instead on the insufficient patriotism of Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Meddling in the arts by government officials and the Russian Orthodox Church is raising worries over a return of censorship not only to political news, but also to plays, movies and art exhibitions.
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A few months after that, Ušakovs flew to Moscow and posted photos of himself on Twitter alongside Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the mayor of Moscow.
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In defiance of overwhelming scientific evidence, the Russian Orthodox church is still refusing to accept as genuine the remains of the royal family, most of whom were solemnly buried in St Petersburg in 19983.
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Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox church since 2009, has said the church can take credit for maintaining the country's nuclear capacity in an era when finances and confidence were rock-bottom.
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As part of reporting for a piece in this week's issue about the relationship between the Russian state and the Russian Orthodox church, we spoke to Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, the church's external affairs boss.
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For another, of course, the militantly atheist Soviet Union has been replaced as a regional hegemon by the Russia of Vladimir Putin — whose aggressive nationalism has become tightly entwined with the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Last Monday, the Russian Orthodox Church banned its adherents from communion at churches under Bartholomew's supervision, including all on Athos, but it is unclear how that will affect the tide of pilgrims or donations.
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Some 190 bishops, priests and other church figures elected Metropolitan Epiphanius as the head of a newly unified Ukrainian church, bringing the country one step closer toward a split from the Russian Orthodox Church.
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On Friday, the director of Ukraine's intelligence service said Russia might invade on Saturday during a meeting of church leaders planned in Kiev to discuss the schism of the Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox churches.
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader, handed a Tomos of Autocephaly containing a decree of independence to the newly appointed Metropolitan Epiphanius of Ukraine, cleaving millions of Ukrainians from the Russian Orthodox Church.
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It also will be their first since Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill met in 2016, a landmark step in healing the 1,000-year-old rift between the Western and Eastern branches of Christianity.
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Now, his plane will stop at José Martí International Airport in Havana, where the pope and Patriarch Kirill I, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, are expected to hold a private, two-hour meeting.
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Much of the friction seems to have been the product of a territorial dispute, as Russian Orthodox leaders have accused the Roman Catholic Church of proselytizing in Russia and Ukraine, effectively encroaching on Orthodox turf.
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For Prince William, the emotional high point may have been a visit to the tomb of his great-grandmother, Princess Alice of Greece, in an awesomely beautiful Russian Orthodox convent on the Mount of Olives.
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Flight AZ4000 -- which had just come from Havana, Cuba, where Francis met with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill -- managed to land safely last Friday, in time to kick off the Pope's five-day trip to Mexico.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill embraced and kissed on Friday in a historic meeting, uniting to issue a global appeal for the protection of Christians under assault in the Middle East.
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Nearly 1,000 years after the Eastern and Western branches of Christianity split apart, the meeting at an airport terminal in Cuba was the first ever between a Roman Catholic pope and a Russian Orthodox patriarch.
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Opposed to the reform of the Episcopal ritual, the ordination of women and open acceptance of homosexuality, he quit the Episcopal Church and joined the American Orthodox Church, an offshoot of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Princess Alice of Battenberg and Greece, who was Queen Elizabeth's mother-in-law, is buried in a crypt in the Russian Orthodox Church of Mary Magdalene on the Mount of Olives outside Jerusalem's Old City.
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Kate has always had a political streak, appearing on BBC News to defend Russian punk band Pussy Riot when they were deemed guilty for protesting the Russian Orthodox Church's support of President Putin in 2012.
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Football Among the Old Believers, in Alaska Keeping a high school football team together is tough, between a Russian Orthodox sect leery of the outside world and the chores of life in an isolated village.
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First, the French capital is home to a group of worshippers (mainly in France but also scattered across half a dozen other countries) which styles itself the Archdiocese of Russian Orthodox Christians of Western Europe.
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Earlier in 2017, popular protests pushed the government to roll back on its plans to pass control over St. Isaac's, the largest cathedral in St. Petersburg, from a local museum to the Russian Orthodox Church.
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It comes amid a campaign by President Vladimir V. Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church to promote family values, with ambitious officials or groups often pushing initiatives they apparently hope will attract the Kremlin's attention.
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A market, a coffee shop, a library, a post office and a Russian Orthodox church, serving a community that immigrated from the Soviet Union starting in the mid 20th century, are all within walking distance.
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She said the video was a "mockery of the Immaculate Conception," included "denial of the existence of Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad" and gave "an offensive description of Patriarch Kirill" of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Israeli media have suggested that the pardon deal may have been eased by promises made by the Israeli government over the ownership of a building in Jerusalem which is important to the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Addressing the church leadership in 2016, the Russian Orthodox leader, Patriarch Kirill, reaffirmed the church's doubts about the Yeltsin-Nemtsov commission's conduct, and praised President Vladimir Putin's decision to launch a new "full-scale" investigation.
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A follower of the Russian Orthodox Church, Mr. Reshetnikov had close ties to senior Orthodox priests in the Balkans and to pro-Russian political groups that led street protests last year against Montenegro's NATO membership.
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Using money in part from Moscow's city budget and with President Vladimir V. Putin's blessing, he established a branch of Moscow State University in Sevastopol as well as schools, Russian Orthodox cathedrals and other projects.
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" American evangelicals, whom the Bolsheviks found useful in undermining the Russian Orthodox Church, celebrated Russia as "the greatest missionary opportunity of our time," where "millions of white people are waiting for the message of life.
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But a trip was not possible because of tensions between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest and most influential in world Orthodoxy, with 165 million of the world's 250 million Orthodox Christians.
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The Russian Orthodox Church's Holy Synod ruling body convened on Friday to consider how to respond as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has courted Constantinople to formally make it a self-governing body independent of Moscow.
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The push gained support from the Russian Orthodox Church, which said "loving parents" should be allowed to discipline children physically without fear of reprisal, but then died out after parliament sent back Ms Mizulina's draft bill.
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The ruling is a testament to the growing influence of the Russian Orthodox church, especially of a radical wing who see the Jehovah's Witnesses as a dangerous sect that deviates from the official version of Christianity.
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MOSCOW, March 5 (Reuters) - Over 80 percent of the loans issued by Peresvet, the bank previously controlled by the Russian Orthodox Church, could be written off, the annual report of its new owner showed on Monday.
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"Matilda" is to be released internationally in late October despite protests from religious conservatives who are offended by what they believe is its disrespectful depiction of a man the Russian Orthodox Church regards as a martyr.
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The scale, copper backings, and beatific expressions of the subjects give these works the feel of Russian Orthodox iconography; the unseen focus of attention that informs each of the men's expression is each of their wives.
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Trump spokesperson Sean Spicer told reporters that call had grown out of an exchange of holiday greetings on December 25 — a questionable story given that this year's Russian Orthodox Christmas was actually on January 9, 2017.
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PARIS — The golden main dome of a new Russian Orthodox cathedral now under construction on the banks of the Seine shimmers in the sun, towering over a Paris neighborhood studded with government buildings and foreign embassies.
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The Russian Orthodox Church, however, canonized Nicholas, and a young new member of Parliament from Crimea made a pre-emptive strike to block the movie's distribution, claiming the film was an insult to the Orthodox faithful.
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Moscow no longer controls pieces of the empire like Ukraine or Belarus, but the dominion of the Russian Orthodox Church has buttressed Mr. Putin's claim that they were still one people, one church and one culture.
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The reasons for this go back to the years after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, when the vast properties of the Russian Orthodox Church were nationalized, religious instruction was outlawed and believing in miracles was officially forbidden.
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The referendum, set for next month, includes several other amendments, many of which similarly appeal to social conservatives and proponents of the Russian Orthodox Church, and which Putin's allies hope will boost turnout for the proposal.
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They kept a running list of all of the necessary jobs they remember Kihnu women doing in the absence of men, from fixing tractor engines to performing church services when the Russian Orthodox priest wasn't available.
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"Matilda" is to be released internationally in late October despite protests from religious conservatives who are offended by what they regard as a disrespectful depiction of a man the Russian Orthodox Church regards as a martyr.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill on Friday called on the international community to protect Christians under assault in the Middle East in apparent reference to violence by the militant group Islamic State.
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In 2001, during Putin's first term as president, former Cuban President Fidel Castro approved construction of a Russian Orthodox church, which was given prime real estate on Havana Bay in what is now a booming tourist zone.
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Princess Alice had asked to be buried near her aunt and role model, Grand Duchess Elizabeth, a Russian Orthodox saint who also established a convent and helped the poor before she was murdered following the Russian Revolution.
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Metropolitan Illarion, foreign policy chief of the Russian Orthodox Church, told reporters Friday that one major disagreement between the Holy See and the Russian Church is over various Orthodox churches in western Ukraine, The Associated Press reported.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, former KGB officer and communist, who saw the collapse of the Soviet Union as the 20th century's greatest tragedy, now embraces the Russian Orthodox Church, especially its imperial pretensions, with widely-publicized fervor.
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Earlier on Monday, Francis placed flowers at the monument to Latvian independence in Riga, and then prayed alongside members of various Christian faiths — Lutheran, Russian Orthodox, Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian — at a prayer session in the Lutheran cathedral.
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The problem today is that the Russian Orthodox Church canonized Nicholas II in 2000: Many Orthodox Christians consider the scene, and the suggestion of a premarital affair by the czar, offensive to the point of being heretical.
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Charles, Prince of Wales, stood in prayer with local clergymen around his grandmother's crypt inside the golden-domed, Russian Orthodox Church of Mary Magdalene, where a female choir chanted motets from a vantage above the Old City.
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Another of its publications, a report about the spread of H.I.V. in large urban areas, argued against sex education and advocated the promotion of traditional Russian Orthodox values as a way to stop the spread of infection.
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The next step is for Ukraine to reunite its various strands of Orthodox faith in that new church, which includes deciding the fate of church buildings and monasteries, some of which are aligned to the Russian Orthodox Church.
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In Russia, as writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn noted with regret, the clerical compromise with power was more abject than in Poland: the Russian Orthodox church escaped near annihilation in the early 1960s by agreeing to parrot Soviet foreign policy.
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The Russian Orthodox Church said Monday that it has severed ties with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the leading authority for the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians, for supporting Ukraine's successful push for an independent church, reports Reuters.
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During his tenure, Russian President Vladimir Putin has moved to centralize the Russian Orthodox Church in Russian life, harnessing its conservative and staunchly nationalistic message to further solidify his vision of Russia as a stronghold of conservative values.
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St. Petersburg, Russia Demonstrators focused their ire not on any labor issue but on a January decision to return a cathedral, one of the city's most famous landmarks, to the Russian Orthodox Church, according to Radio Free Europe.
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But at a time when he is also courting the Russian Orthodox Church, Francis has treaded carefully, never naming Russia as an aggressor or using the word "occupation" — the term favored by Georgian leaders to describe Russia's role.
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His time as prelate, which began in the early 1980s, spanned three papal visits, including one last September by Pope Francis, as well as a historic meeting between the pope and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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MOSCOW — Vyacheslav Gorshkov, who teaches the catechism at a Kiev cathedral, was among the majority of Orthodox Christians in Ukraine who had reconciled themselves to the fact that their church answers to the Russian Orthodox patriarch in Moscow.
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The Russian Orthodox Church, which puts its membership at 150 million, will lose up to 30 to 40 percent of its most ardent followers; around 16 percent of Ukrainians attend church regularly, compared with half that in Russia.
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He hides them in the catacombs of the Russian Orthodox Church and gives them safe passage to the Canadian Rockies, where, instead of singing 'Edelweiss,' Philip leads the family in line-dancing into the sunset to Eddie Rabbitt.
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In his 17 years as Russia's leader, Putin has overseen an embrace of the socially-conservative Russian Orthodox church and a rejection of many liberal ideas as an attempt by the West to impose its values on Russia.
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Apart from his meeting three years ago with Kirill, which was the first in history between a Roman Catholic pope and a Russian Orthodox patriarch, Francis has made a number of visits to countries with predominantly Orthodox populations.
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Apart from some activity at the Russian Historical Society, a body headed by the director of Russia's foreign intelligence service, and at the Russian Orthodox Church, the memory of 1917 has been left mostly free of top-down interference.
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"'Russian Strategy' is devoted to the development of optimal ways of Russia's exit from its crisis on the basis of the teachings of Russian Orthodox saints, thinkers and commanders," says the description on the website of the fringe group.
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In Moscow, meanwhile, Christmas celebrations were tinged with dismay over Ukraine's declaration of independence, which is regarded by the Russian Orthodox church, largest of the 14 churches that make up world Orthodoxy, as a flagrant violation of canon law.
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On the sidelines Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, head of the external relations arm of the Russian Orthodox church, had a short but cordial meeting with Vice-president Mike Pence, a religious conservative who was raised Catholic but later became evangelical.
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Pope Francis, left, and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill exchange presents as they pose for photos with Cuba's President Raul Castro, right, after their meeting at the Jose Marti aiport in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Feb.
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YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) - A Russian court on Thursday gave a suspended three and a half year jail sentence to a blogger who was detained after he played the Pokemon Go video game inside a Russian Orthodox church last year.
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Kim had other ideas, and religious persecution continues under his grandson, Kim Jong Un, the current leader of North Korea; its four churches (two Protestant, one Catholic and one Russian Orthodox) are all in Pyongyang and are for show.
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According to insiders, he broke with protocol by not consulting the Secretariat of State, which acts as both foreign and interior ministry, before a historic (and, say critics, ill-advised) meeting in February with the Russian Orthodox Patriarch, Kirill.
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It would mark the end of a strange journey for Filaret, who was once a frontrunner to head the Russian Orthodox Church but switched tack to campaign for an independent Ukrainian church as the country won independence from Moscow.
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The Moscow Patriarchate, which is aligned with the Russian Orthodox Church, earlier dominated in Ukraine but has been challenged by a rival, known as the Kiev Patriarchate, formed after the 1991 break-up of the Russian-dominated Soviet Union.
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Religious activists accused the film's director of blasphemy and the attempt to taint not only the image of the last Russian tsar, murdered by Bolsheviks and later canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church, but also the entire Russian monarchy.
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Mr. Gorshkov does not want to break with the faith, but does want to split with the Russian Orthodox Church, incensed by what he sees as the Kremlin using the church as an instrument of its old imperial control.
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Neo-Nazis, Bolsheviks, Cossacks, monarchists and Russian Orthodox groups, despite their diverse ideological orientations, all seem to share a repulsion for democratic values, a frustration with the current order and a desire to restore Russia's imperial past and glory.
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The group's 2012 guerrilla performance at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, which viciously mocked Vladimir Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church, resulted in a two-year prison sentence for Ms. Tolokonnikova and another of its members.
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The Moscow Patriarchate, which is aligned with the Russian Orthodox Church, earlier dominated in Ukraine but has been challenged by a rival known as the Kiev Patriarchate formed after the 1991 break-up of the Russian-dominated Soviet Union.
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Three years ago, Francis held brief talks with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill in Cuba — the first such meeting in history and a landmark step in healing the 1,000-year-old rift between the Western and Eastern branches of Christianity.
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