Is the Kremlin really planning to hand the Russian police powers to enforce ‘traditional and moral values’?

The purge of Russia’s Defence Ministry has reached Patriot Park, Moscow’s military Disneyland

Russia’s contradictory attitudes to its diverse Muslim communities have been laid bare by the Moscow terror attack

Nikolay Platonov, a former Russian Orthodox priest, on Russia’s sickness and Navalny’s sanctity

The anti-Semitic riot in Dagestan has undermined the claims of religious harmony made by Russia’s religious leaders

Has the adulation of empire and the apotheosis of Russia’s nuclear deterrent supplanted the Russian Orthodox Church as the new national religion?

The sudden interest in peace Russia’s religious leaders have shown when it comes to the Middle East smacks of hypocrisy given their unbroken support for the war in Ukraine