Ainu, Cultures Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands, historically Ainu territory, are administered by Russia.
Source Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans: The Epic Tradition of the AinuDonald L. Philippi
This source names Russia directly: "against the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), monastery founder Samuel Greene Jr., and a monastery monk, over sexual abuse Wright alleged occurred at Christ of the Hills Monastery..."
Source Blanco Monks, Church Settle Sex Abuse CaseMolly Bloom
This source names Russia directly: "The Wikipedia article on Buddhism in Russia, stating that as of a 2025 survey by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM), approximately 1.4 million people, about 1.0 percent of Russia's..."
Source Buddhism in Russia
This source names Russia directly: "John Snelling's Buddhism in Russia, The Story of Agvan Dorzhiev, Lhasa's Emissary to the Tsar, published by Element Books in 1993, is the only book length biography of Dorzhiev in English, the..."
Source Buddhism in Russia: The Story of Agvan Dorzhiev, Lhasa's Emissary to the TsarJohn Snelling
This source names Russia directly: "Laura Engelstein is a historian of Russia, and this Cornell University Press book is her academic study of the Skoptsy, a Russian religious sect whose members practised ritual castration in..."
Source Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian FolktaleLaura Engelstein
This source names Russia directly: "Texas, a monastery affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) from 1991 until ROCOR severed ties amid the allegations in 1999."
Source Blanco Monks, Church Settle Sex Abuse CaseMolly Bloom
Russian Orthodox Christianity, adopted from Byzantium in 988, remains the dominant tradition.
Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center
This source names Russia directly: "Church of Scientology Moscow v. Russia, application no."
Source Church of Scientology Moscow v. Russia, application no. 18147/02European Court of Human Rights
The Soviet Union enforced state atheism at home and across the bloc; its dissolution in 1991 ended the confrontation.
Source Religion and the Cold WarDianne Kirby (editor)
This source names Russia directly: "sites in the Ottoman Empire and over Russia's self-presentation as protector of Ottoman Orthodox Christians."
Source Crimea: The Last CrusadeOrlando Figes
Nicholas I claimed a protectorate over some twelve million Orthodox subjects of the sultan and framed the war as a defence of the faith.
Source Crimea: The Last CrusadeOrlando Figes
This source names Russia directly: "Crews's For Prophet and Tsar, Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia, published by Harvard University Press in 2006, is a scholarly history arguing that the Russian imperial state, rather than..."
Source For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central AsiaRobert D. Crews
This source names Russia directly: "Mennonite immigrants from Russia brought Turkey Red winter wheat and a plain communal faith to central Kansas in the 1870s."
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
This source names Russia directly: "purges and was not republished in Russia until after 1990, a history that affects its availability and transmission but not the authority of the fieldwork itself."
Source Legends and Stories about Shamans among the Yakuts, Buryats and Tungus (Legendy i rasskazy o shamanakh u yakutov, buryat i tungusov)G. V. Ksenofontov
This source names Russia directly: "relief to Mennonites in southern Russia, present-day Ukraine."
Source Mennonite Central Committee (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names Russia directly: "relief to Mennonites in southern Russia (present-day Ukraine), holding its first official meeting on 27 September 1920 in Chicago."
Source Mennonite Central Committee (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names Russia directly: "A young woman from Saransk in Russia who came to attention in 2004 for saying she could see inside a living body and read the condition of the organs."
Source Testing NatashaRay Hyman
This source names Russia directly: "National Library of Russia, cited here as an institutional record, is the library's own account of its founding in 1795 and its custody of the Firkovich manuscript collection, which includes the..."
Source National Library of Russia (institutional record)the holders' own account
This source names Russia directly: "The National Library of Russia in St Petersburg is the custodian institution holding the Leningrad Codex, catalogued as Firkovich B 19A, the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, dated by..."
Source National Library of Russia, Firkovich Collection, Leningrad Codex (MS Firkovich B 19A)the holders' own account
This source names Russia directly: "is a scholarly academic study of Russian Rodnoverie, the modern Slavic neopagan revival movement, examining its varied and sometimes internally conflicting relationships to Russian nationalism and..."
Source Paganism, Traditionalism, Nationalism: Narratives of Russian RodnoverieKaarina Aitamurto
This source names Russia directly: "persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, community-edited."
Source Persecution Of Jehovah's Witnesses In Russia (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
The empire was proclaimed in 1721 and ruled from Saint Petersburg until the revolutions of 1917.
Source The Orthodox ChurchTimothy Ware (Kallistos Ware)
This source names Russia directly: "John Garrard and Carol Garrard's Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia, Princeton University Press, 2008, is an academic study of the Russian Orthodox Church's institutional..."
Source Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New RussiaJohn Garrard and Carol Garrard
This source names Russia directly: "Russia's Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830-1917, Sergei Zhuk's 2004 study from the Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins..."
Source Russia's Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830-1917Sergei I. Zhuk
This source names Russia directly: "on Slavic Native Faith (Rodnovery) in Russia, citing the Sreda research service's 2012 Arena (Atlas of Religions and Nationalities) survey finding 1.7 million people identifying as Pagan or..."
Source Slavic Native Faith in Russia
The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was dynamited in 1931, and the millennium of the baptism of Rus was celebrated publicly there in 1988.
Source The Orthodox ChurchTimothy Ware (Kallistos Ware)
This source names Russia directly: "Rights, on 7 June 2022, ruled that Russia's 2017 nationwide ban on Jehovah's Witnesses and the 2009 dissolution of its Taganrog local organization violated Articles 9, 10 and 11 of the European..."
Source Strasbourg Court Rules Russia's Ban on Jehovah's Witnesses Unlawful (The European Times)
This source names Russia directly: "in Paris, subtitled "Pictures of Pagan Russia in Two Parts." The publisher's own programme note quotes Stravinsky's letter to conductor Serge Koussevitzky describing the work as representing "pagan..."
Source Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (Boosey & Hawkes Catalogue)
This source names Russia directly: "Oak Ridge in Tennessee and shipped to Russia; the target had a half-life of 330 days, so the whole experiment ran against a clock."
Source Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the ElementsJohn Emsley
This source names Russia directly: "in the surviving sources; both modern Russia and modern Ukraine trace a shared national and religious origin to this event, and both claims are named here rather than resolved in favour of either."
Source The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200Simon Franklin and Jonathan Shepard
This source names Russia directly: "judgment in Taganrog LRO and Others v. Russia, holding that Russia's broadly worded anti-extremism legislation was misapplied to prosecute Jehovah's Witnesses' peaceful religious activity, quoting..."
Source The European Court of Human Rights Finds Russia's Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses Unlawful (Bitter Winter)Massimo Introvigne
This source names Russia directly: "Dostoevsky's novel, serialized in The Russian Messenger from 1868 to 1869, following Prince Myshkin, a guileless epileptic returning to Russia, through his entanglement with the merchant's son..."
Source The Idiot (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names Russia directly: "Crummey was a historian of Russia, and this academic book, published by University of Wisconsin Press, is a detailed history of the Vyg community, a major Old Believer settlement that formed after..."
Source The Old Believers and the World of Antichrist: The Vyg Community and the Russian State, 1694-1855Robert O. Crummey
This source names Russia directly: "in Paris, subtitled "Pictures of Pagan Russia in Two Parts." The publisher's own catalogue quotes Stravinsky describing the scenario as a solemn pagan rite in which wise elders watch a young girl..."
Source Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (Boosey & Hawkes Catalogue)
This source names Russia directly: "in 1991, and twenty two years before Russia banned Jehovah's Witnesses as extremist in 2017, both already recorded here, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society revised one of its longest standing..."
Source Christ's Presence, What Does It Mean to You? (jw.org)
This source names Russia directly: "A Russia Beyond article by Anna Kuchma reporting sociologist Nikolai Mitrokhin's unofficial estimate of the Russian Orthodox Church's total annual income in the 2000s, offered in the absence of any..."
Source Where Does the Russian Orthodox Church Get Its Money From? (Russia Beyond, 2016)Anna Kuchma
This source names Russia directly: "Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Russia, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and historian Micheal Clodfelter's reference compilation for its noncombatant death estimate."
Source World War I Casualties (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors