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Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church
Bolshevik and later Soviet policy systematically suppressed and persecuted Christianity across denominations: sources report executions of clergy (for example “28 Russian Orthodox bishops and over 1,2...
Estimates of Christians who were executed or died in Soviet camps specifically "for religious reasons" are inconsistent and contested in the sources: some religious and advocacy accounts claim tens of...
Estimates of deaths tied to Soviet anti-religious policies vary wildly: some popular summaries claim “12–20 million” killed as part of anti-religious campaigns , while detailed scholarly and archival ...
The available sources identify Russia — and specifically President Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin — as the primary initiator and continuing principal actor driving the war that escalated with the full‑scale...
The Kremlin, allied state institutions, conservative domestic actors and transnational “anti-gender” networks have together manufactured and weaponized anti‑LGBTQ rhetoric in Russia, using law, media ...
The precise number of Christians imprisoned in the Soviet Gulag solely "for practicing their faith" cannot be fixed from available sources; contemporary estimates of Christians imprisoned for conscien...
A number of individually documented clergy killed in the Russian Civil War and early Soviet period are commemorated by church and lay historians, and formal compilations exist—most notably the Russian...
Soviet policy toward religion was uniformly repressive in principle, but implementation varied: the Russian Orthodox Church was targeted heavily early on yet later co-opted and granted a privileged, m...
The available reporting indicates that Eastern Orthodox Christians—especially clergy and monastics—suffered the highest documented mortality among Christian groups in Soviet labor camps, with mass arr...
Cremation is embraced, discouraged, or forbidden depending on religion and local culture: Hinduism, many Buddhist communities, Sikhs and Jains commonly prescribe or accept cremation as normative (see ...
Kyiv City Council voted on December 4, 2025 to restore the name Ivan Mazepa to a section of Lavrska (Lavrskaya) Street, reversing a 2010 change that had been made at the request of the Moscow Patriarc...
Catholics are a small religious minority in Russia — various reports put Catholics at a fraction of the population (Wikipedia cites about 773,000, roughly 0.5% as of a 2016 pontifical yearbook) and ch...