Soviet Union
Putin’s crackdown casts a wide net, ensnaring the LGBTQ+ community, lawyers and many others
By Dasha Litvinova — March 7, 2024
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Prominent rights groups in Russia have been outlawed or classified as agents of foreigners.
How many Holocaust memorial days do we need?
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 29, 2024
(RNS) — There are three different days for remembering the Holocaust. Each one has a different message. Which message do we need today?
Arthur Gay, NAE leader who introduced Reagan’s ‘evil empire’ speech, dead at 86
By Adelle M. Banks — July 28, 2023
(RNS) — Gay led the National Association of Evangelicals during a time when Reagan was seeking the continuing support of U.S. evangelicals.
Mikhail Gorbachev’s tragic legacy in the Russian Orthodox Church
By John P. Burgess — September 7, 2022
(RNS) — The Russian leader ended 70 years of repression of the Russian Orthodox Church but opened the way for other faith groups.
Russia’s threats to shut down Jewish Agency raise alarm bells for those who remember the past
By Shaul Kelner — August 11, 2022
(The Conversation) — During the Cold War, Russia’s refusal to allow Jews to leave the country reflected its political aims. The same is likely true today, a Jewish studies scholar explains.
A strike near Babyn Yar; but this time Jewish acceptance in Ukraine is growing
By Yonat Shimron — March 2, 2022
(RNS) — For many Jews, Ukraine brings up memories of pogroms, antisemitism and Nazi collaboration. But Jewish life in Ukraine is no longer what it was.
How will history judge Vladimir Putin?
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 24, 2022
(RNS) — In his hunger for Ukraine, Putin walks in the path of Hitler.
Soviet power gone, Baltic countries’ historic pagan past re-emerges
By Aliide Naylor — May 31, 2019
SAMMA, Estonia (RNS) — The Maausk community, along with Estonia’s other prominent neopagans, the Taaraists, tripled in size from 2001 to 2011, the latest figures available from the national census.
Why Putin is an ally for American evangelicals
By Melani McAlister — September 4, 2018
(The Conversation) — In the 21st century, evangelical conservatives aren’t promoting their agenda by smuggling Bibles behind the Iron Curtain, but by harnessing Putin’s reputation as a leader in the resurgent global Right.
What we can learn from the refuseniks of the Soviet Union
By Marc Zvi Brettler — February 3, 2017
(RNS) The Jews I visited yearned so desperately for American political values — upholding the human dignity and fundamental freedoms that indeed made America great. And now I see our country turning away from those fundamental values.
Will we stand with persecuted Christians? (COMMENTARY)
By Tony Perkins — April 15, 2016
(RNS) We need to consider something similar to the 1980s protests for the freedom of Soviet Jews, for Christians and other religious minorities that are now being persecuted around the world.
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