Moscow’s missed chance (on Ukrainian Church’s Autochephaly)
By Kadri Liik, Momchil Metodiev, Nicu Popescu* However, this is not the full story. This ecclesiastical conflict has complex roots, ...
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Autocephaly for Ukraine: How it happened
By Kadri Liik, Momchil Metodiev, Nicu Popescu* After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the ecclesiastical landscape in Ukraine became ...
Into Ukraine: Dilemmas for the Russian Orthodox Church
By Kadri Liik, Momchil Metodiev, Nicu Popescu* The Kremlin’s relationship with the church is not as direct as that with, ...
Moscow and the Orthodox Church
By Kadri Liik, Momchil Metodiev, Nicu Popescu* The Russian state and Russian church have long been close: in 1722 Peter ...
Defender of the faith? How Ukraine’s Orthodox split threatens Russia
By Kadri Liik, Momchil Metodiev, Nicu Popescu* An average Westerner may well have overlooked the potentially seismic geopolitical event of ...
The 7th meeting of Russian-Chinese working group for contacts and cooperation in religious sphere
On May 29, 2019, the Russian-Chinese working group for contacts and cooperation in religious sphere held its 7th meeting at ...
Archbishop Ieronymos at the Embassy of Russia on the Sunday of Orthodoxy
An annual reception on Sunday of Orthodoxy was held on March 18, 2019, at the Embassy of the Russian Federation ...
Russian Ambassador gave the recognition note of North Macedonia to Zoran Zaev
Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev met Ambassador of Russia to Skopje Sergey Bazdnikin on Monday, who presented him ...
Russia recognized the Republic of Northern Macedonia
In spite of its contradictory statements at the beginning of the negotiations on the Prespa agreement and the subsequent ratification ...
Lavrov: New Ukrainian church is a “travesty of history”
The policy of establishing the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine violates the precepts of state non-interference in ecclesiastical life as ...
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