Articles — The Revealer

Relationship Drama: Russia's Church-State Affairs

March 28, 2013

The Russian Orthodox Church is a privileged institution very much at the forefront of Russian life, with a well-developed...

September 27, 2012

by Irina Papkova there's an eerie similarity between the reaction of some Orthodox believers to Pussy Riot and the...

Feature

April 26, 2012

by Irina Papkova The recent Russian elections have highlighted the complicated relationship between the Orthodox Church with both state...

Review

March 30, 2012

A review of The Orthodox Church and Russian Politics, by Irina Papkova. Oxford University Press, 2011. By Sean Guillory In late February,...

February 8, 2012

By Irina Papkova The Russian Duma elections of December, 2011 contained many surprises, starting of course with the nature...

December 21, 2011

Church and the Russian University. Fundamentalism as a result of secularization, not an expression of tradition. "Shifting Politics in...

December 5, 2011

Media in the West love the narrative that godless, Communist Russia eventually fell to the relentless, holy hand of...

June 10, 2011

Last month the Russian Orthodox Church issued a statement that supported Moscow's squashing of the gay pride parade...

May 31, 2011

Not everyone's appalled by Moscow's strict crack-down on Saturday's gay-pride parade -- which resulted in the arrest of...

December 1, 2004

Fiddler Beneath the Gun Impaling a head on a pole and putting a cigarette in his mouth? That was...