Russia by Donna Welles

          One wonders whether or not Prime Minister President Putin can maintain his high approval ratings in the midst of Russia’s current state of affairs. In an annual question and answer session between Putin and the Russian people last Thursday, Putin said that Russia would weather the current global economic crisis with “minimal losses”. He [...]

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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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