Police in the Czech Republic have officially confirmed that the white powder discovered in the car of Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev), the former head of the Czech branch of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), was cocaine. Against the backdrop of this incident, the senior cleric was...

Patriarch Kirill (Vladimir Gundyayev), the 79-year-old head of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), remains one of the most influential pillars of the Russian political system. However, recent reports regarding possible cognitive decline, combined with a growing number of corruption and misconduct scandals within the ROC, have...