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Russian church enthrones new leader

The Russian Orthodox Church enthroned a new leader Sunday at Moscow's spectacular Christ the Savior Cathedral in a ceremony attended by Russian leaders and Christian delegations from around the world.

Russian church picks new head

Russian Orthodox Church leaders Tuesday selected Metropolitan Kirill, a 62-year-old modernizer, to be the next head of the church.

Russia: Thousands pay respects to church leader

From white-bearded monks and babushka-clad women to top Kremlin officials, thousands of people turned out to pay final respects Tuesday to the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Alexy II.

Time.com: Russia's Last Czar Declared Victim of Repression

The last czar and his family were victims of political repression, Russia's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, formally restoring the Romanov name and furthering a Kremlin effort to encourage patriotism by celebrating the country's czarist past

90 years on, Russia remembers slain royals

It was 90 years ago Thursday that Russia's last royal family was executed -- but this year's anniversary comes with scientific proof ending years of speculation that some of the Romanovs managed to survive.

Doomsday cult threatens suicide

Members of a doomsday cult are refusing to leave their hideout in a cave in southern Russia in spite of intervention from their leader, a government official said Friday, adding pressure to a stand-off with the authorities that one side believes will only end with the apocalypse.

Cult awaits end of days in cave after leader's arrest

Members of a Russian doomsday cult barricaded themselves in a cave to wait out the end of the world as the cult's leader underwent psychiatric exams Thursday, Russian media reported.

Religious Cold War hits church

The Cold War lives on in this wooded corner of New Jersey under golden onion-shaped domes of a Russian Orthodox church.

Murdered Russian royals 'found'

Prosecutors said Friday they have reopened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the last Russian czar and his family nearly 90 years ago after an archaeologist said the remains of Nicholas II's son and heir to the throne may have finally been found.

Pope returns icon to Russia

A Vatican delegation has returned a centuries-old Russian Orthodox icon to Russia's Orthodox patriarch in a special ceremony.

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