"Russians should realize that they are Orthodox in the first place; Russians in the second place; and only in the thir…"

"Many Russian and Western scholars have studied Soviet efforts to destroy organized religion and spread atheism in the…"

", a Finno-Ugric nation in the Middle Volga most of whose members are followers animism, are now engaged in the establ…"

"The [Falun Gong] movement poses no threats to Russia, and for years it has been depicted with benevolence by most Rus…"

"On May 22, the Parish of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary was “liquidated” by the Regional Court of Omsk. …"

"You know, as I already mentioned, in 988 Prince Vladimir himself was baptized following the example of his grandmothe…"

"The American historian James Westfall Thompson wrote in 1916 on the conversion of the Baltic Slavs by the German Chur…"

"The historian George Richards wrote in 1918:12 “[T]he religion of Russia is broader and deeper than the creed, polity…"

"Svetlana Koltovskaia, has this to say about shamans in the federal Russian Republic of Sakha: Sakha (Yakut) people do…"

"The scholar Sergei Filatov has stated: “Shamanism was the basic form of religiosity among Yakuts before 1917… Accordi…"