MINSK, 25 July (BelTA) – The presidents of Belarus and Russia, Aleksandr Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin, met on the island of Valaam (Lake Ladoga) in Karelia, BelTA has learned. When in the Valaam ...

Russia's Valaam Island has been a destination for religious pilgrims for hundreds of years. A 14th-century monastery and the natural beauty of Lake Ladoga have attracted visitors including tsars and ...

In St. Petersburg Aleksandr Lukashenko and Russia President Vladimir Putin will attend the plenary meeting of the 6th Forum of Regions of Belarus and Russia in St. Petersburg on 18 July The heads of ...

Russia’s famed Valaam Monastery, on an island on Lake Ladoga, is renowned for austere boreal beauty. Popular with tourists, it’s maintained in part by Russian Orthodox monks who take vows of chastity ...

On December 13, 2016, the feast-day of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called, the Stavropegic Valaam Monastery of the Transfiguration celebrated the twenty-seventh anniversary of the rebirth of ...

Orthodoxy is a key part of the nationalist and conservative world view espoused by President Putin Long presented as the bare-chested, macho leader who defends Russia against the West, President ...

Long presented as the bare-chested, macho leader who defends Russia against the West, President Vladimir Putin now has a rather more mystical image in state media. With elections looming in March, ...