CNA Staff, Dec 12, 2024 / 06:00 am Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill is sending letters in support of new mothers in Russia as part of a new project designed to encourage pregnant women to keep ...

"Russia really does have a demographic problem," the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, said on November 12 as he called for a nationwide ban on "encouraging women to have ...

Russian heavy metal and goth music fans in Russia could face prison after Vladimir Putin banned "satanists". The Kremlin's ...

With almost a million casualties and no end to the war on Ukraine in sight, Russia is using an array of approaches to keep ...

The Russian population was reported to be 146,447,424 as of January 1, a figure lower than the population in 1999 when Putin first assumed the presidency.

A new UN report found that women in Ukraine experience systematic sexual violence by Russian troops. Women as old as 83 have been raped while their families were forced to listen to the brutal ...

Women in Russia are being told to forgo education and careers to prioritize having many children, even as Putin’s war in Ukraine drains men from the workforce.

OPINION Putin and Russian Orthodox Church forge an unholy alliance to take over Ukraine Putin's Russia isn’t just at war with Ukraine, it’s at war with Christianity ...

He asserted that this supposed ideology should be characterized as “extremist.” A top official with the Russian Orthodox Church immediately endorsed the proposal.