Tag: Svetlana Bolotnikova

Orthodox Churches Rapidly Giving Way to Mosques in Russia’s North Caucasus

January 27, 2015

Staunton, January 26 – The Russian Orthodox metropolitanate of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk says that over the last 20 years, some 6,000 mosques have been built in that region for its six million Muslims while only 600 churches have been erected for its three million Russian speakers. That means there is now one mosque for every […]

Ukrainian Events Keep Moscow From Addressing Cossack Genocide Of 1920s

January 26, 2015

Staunton, January 25 – Ninety-six years ago, the Soviet government launched what became a decade-long campaign to “de-Cossackize” Russia, a campaign that Cossacks remember as “yet another genocide” in the Caucasus and a reminder that relations between the Cossacks and the state are more complicated and conflicted than most assume. As portrayed in Hollywood movies […]