A remarkable 12th-century wild boar tusk has been discovered in Veliky Novgorod, Russia, along with a beautifully engraved ...

KYIV -- Commemorations are taking place in Ukraine to mark the 1,025th anniversary of the conversion to Christianity of Kievan Rus, the medieval Slavic state that laid the Orthodox foundations for ...

Commemorations are taking place in Ukraine to mark the 1,025th anniversary of the conversion to Christianity of Kievan Rus, the medieval Slavic state that laid the Orthodox foundations for modern-day ...

History rarely produces a figure as complex and unforgettable as Olga of Kiev. Remembered both as a ruthless avenger and as a Christian saint, she ruled during the turbulent tenth century, when the ...

Moscow, July 28./TASS/. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill led the Holy Cross Procession to the Monument to Vladimir the Great on Moscow’s central Borovitskaya Square after a prayer service at ...

It was the mid-10th century AD when Kievan Rus was ruled for the first time by a woman, appointed as regent on behalf of her three-year-old son. She was the one who defeated the Drevlians, a Slavic ...

Belarus has deep historical ties to Russia, but its identity was shaped by Kievan Rus, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Poland, ...

MOSCOW, July 28. /TASS/. Russia and other countries where the majority of the population espouses Eastern Orthodox Christianity are marking the millennium since the passing away of St. Duke Vladimir, ...