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Giant Buddha planned for Tuva

May 15, 2012 Nathan Toohey, The Moscow News
A Tibet enterprise has been given the go ahead to build a 15-meter-high Buddha statue, to be placed atop a mountain outside the Tuvan capital of Kyzyl

“Islamic factor” in Russia's migration policy

May 11, 2012 Aleksei Starostin, RIAC
Today Russia have come to understand that migration and Islam are closely inter-connected, and if one disregards this connection, country can face serious problems which Europe has already encountered

Thousands pray in Moscow in defense of Russian Orthodox Church

April 23, 2012 RIA Novosti
About 65,000 Orthodox Church believers gathered at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral on Sunday for a nationwide prayer in defense of the faith and desecrated sacred objects, Russia's Interior Ministry said.

Chronicle of a Russian's search for nirvana in India

April 13, 2012 Grigory Kubatian, RIR
Grigory Kubatian traces his meetings with Indian gurus and his journeys to sacred places in India in search of inner calm and freedom

Getting ready for easter

April 9, 2012 Svetlana Osadchuk, The Moscow Times
Unlike the Western Christian world, the Russian Orthodox Church will celebrate Easter this Sunday

Bureaucracy vs. religion

March 28, 2012 Julia Petrova, RIR
On March 29 a court hearing will be held in St. Petersburg concerning the closing of a Hindu temple in that city. RIR spoke to Suren Karapetyan, head of the Vedic Center for Spiritual Development in which the temple is located

Russian scientists urge Medvedev and Putin to take the Bhagavad Gita trial under their personal control

March 19, 2012
A group of renowned Russian scientists representing leading Russian research organisations and universities has addressed an open letter to President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in connection with the ongoing trial of “Bhagavad

The plot behind ‘Sabotage Kudankulam’

March 5, 2012 Rakesh Krishnan Simha
Fundamentalist Christian churches and remote-controlled NGOs are the new WMDs – workers of mass disruption. Their first big hit: the Kudankulam nuclear plant.

Treasures of buddhism

February 17, 2012 RIR
A Buddhist art exhibit arrives in the city for Days of Tibetan Culture.

New series of Bhagavad Gita case in Tomsk

February 16, 2012 RIA Novosti
After a Siberian district court in late 2011 rejected a petition seeking a ban on a Russian translation of the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita, Tomsk Region Prosecutor General Vasily Voikin has demanded that a Russian comment included in the script

Russian Buddhist exhibition opened in India

February 13, 2012 The Voice of Russia
An exhibition devoted to the history of Buddhism in Russia has opened in India’s capital New Delhi.

Putin: Compulsory religion classes must engage students

February 9, 2012 RIA Novosti
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin came out in favor of robust religion and secular ethics classes in Russian schools, saying they should be taught by theology specialists or priests.

Buddhist revival attracts Russian Buryats to India

January 31, 2012 Ajay Kamalakaran, specially for RIR
India is now looked upon as an inspiration for Buryats looking to return to being practising Buddhists. Buryat students of Buddhism study at Tibetan monastic universities and bring their knowledge back home.

Once a prison, now a spiritual and tourist hub

January 20, 2012 Grigory Kubatian, specially for RIR
Located in the White Sea in northwestern Russia, the Solovetsky Islands once housed one of Russia’s first gulags, but now its centuries-old monastery and the seascape’s stark beauty attracts thousands of tourists and the spiritually inclined.

Russia goes under ice

January 20, 2012 RIA Novosti
In the middle of winter Russian Orthodox Christians gather to submerge themselves in the freezing water to mark the festival of the Epiphany

Now even the stars and the heavens turn away from Putin?

January 19, 2012 Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti
As Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suffers an unprecedented slump in popularity, a number of Russia’s celebrities have also been expressing their newfound dissatisfaction with his rule.

Christmas in Russia

January 7, 2012 Russia Today TV Channel
Russian Orthodox Christians celebrate the birth of Christ on January 7, with a mass starting the night before, on Christmas Eve.

SM Krishna discusses Gita row with Russian Ambassador

December 27, 2011 RIA Novosti
India’s External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna met with Russian Ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin on Tuesday, a day before a Siberian court rules on whether to ban a Russian translation of the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita, Indian media repor

Temple takes shape amid Gita furore in Russia

December 26, 2011
Hindus and Krishna devotees may be fighting a court battle in the Siberian city of Tomsk against a move to ban the Bhagavad Gita, but their 40-year quest to find a foothold in Russia is taking shape in the construction of a massive temple on Moscow's

Indian ambassador calls the Gita trail an “absurd, bordering on the bizarre”

December 23, 2011 RIR
The ambassador of India in Moscow H. E. Mr. Ajai Malhotra hopes that the Court in Tomsk will take the right decision on the Bhagavad Gita case taking into account the experts’ statements on the holy scripture.
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