In 1915, German prisoners of war, kept at a hospital in Saratov, arranged a Christmas ... Western European Gregorian calendar. The Russian Orthodox Church did not accept the change and continued ...

Across Russia, the devout and the daring celebrate Epiphany on Jan. 19 by immersing themselves in frigid water through holes ...

Orthodox Christians in Russia marked the ... Ceremonies were cancelled in areas as distant as the southern Russian region of Saratov to Karelia, almost 1,600 kilometres away on the country ...

Men exit a pond after plunging themselves in icy waters to celebrate the Orthodox Epiphany at ... in areas as distant as the southern Russian region of Saratov and Karelia, almost 1000 miles ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast ... canceled in areas as distant as the southern Russian region of Saratov and Karelia, almost 1000 miles away ...

Vladimir Putin met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, on Tuesday with gifts he asked the Patriarch to bless for troops fighting in Ukraine. The meeting at a Christmas ...

The anti-abortion movement is on the rise in Russia, and the Kremlin is responding by changing the law to make terminations more difficult.