Russia by Donna Welles

     So I was on my way back from western Europe to St. Petersburg, Russia and I had decided to fly in to Helsinki, Finland and then take a bus back home. I found out later that I had bronchitis but all I knew at the time was that I was very very sick. It [...]

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“While the excesses of the gulag are now history, a United Nations inspector visiting a pre-trial detention center in Moscow in the mid 1990’s commented that he would need the literary skills of Dante or the artistic skills of Hieronumus Bosh to describe fully the horros with which he was confronted.” (1)
 
          Until the late [...]

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Religion in Russia has been one of its defining characteristics since well before Vladimir the Great imposed Christianity on his pagan citizens in 988. This series of articles will talk about Russian Christianity in its infancy through its covert status during the Communist era and up through post-Soviet Russia. First, however, I will discuss what [...]

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