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June 2014

June 11, 2014

TASS on Russia’s talking dogs

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly...

May 2014

May 14, 2014

Shock: Russian Orthodoxy gives drag queen thumbs down

Dear GetReligion readers: Some of you wrote to say that you wanted to know what...

April 2014

April 20, 2014

Glorious Pascha! The Baltimore Sun gets the key parts right

I keep saying this year after year, but it's true. One of the greatest challenges...

April 10, 2014

Pod people: ‘Pinko’ Pat Buchanan and the Daily Mail

Heavy breathing this week from London's Daily Mail, which has denounced American political commentator Patrick...

March 2014

March 20, 2014

Back in the USSR! Izvestia on the Crimea

Save for Mitt Romney, no one -- in my opinion, at least -- appears likely...

August 2013

August 09, 2013

The New York Times misses battle for Belarus

I would like to draw your attention to a 28 July 2013 piece in the...

July 2013

July 25, 2013

A sad note of Orthodox reality in Eastern Europe

It's impossible to know precisely what is happening inside the mind of a politician when...

May 2013

May 27, 2013

Gosh! Finding meaning in great Russian literature?

I spent most of last week on the other side of the planet (a Media...

April 2013

April 19, 2013

In tsunami of Boston info, there are basic faith questions

As the drama keeps unfolding in and around Boston, it's safe to say that journalists...

March 2013

March 21, 2013

Hey CNN: Ghosts in the ties that bind Cyprus and Russia

So I'm sitting in a restaurant eating my lunch and, up on the wall, the...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

Van Cliburn on stage, at church and in private life

You know how, when you are growing up, that there is always some kind of...

February 06, 2013

About those Orthodox hermits in the Siberian wild

Every now and then, someone sends your GetReligionistas the URL for a story that is...

January 2013

January 02, 2013

Washington Post finds ghost in Russian adoption ban

Now that my husband and I hope to bring more children into our family through...

December 2012

December 12, 2012

Generic Armenians fleeing Syria for no particular reason

For news consumers who are closely following events on the ground in Syria, especially those...