Irina Baranova Russians belong to the largest ethnolinguistic group in Europe, the Slavs. But now, as Pan-Slavism is in decline, they don’t feel so close to most of their Slavic ‘cousins’ – for ...

Vladimir the Great baptized his people in 988, converting the country to Orthodox Christianity. Before that, the Slavs worshipped Svarog, Perun, and other ancient gods for centuries - each of which ...

A concert in northern Greece has sparked controversy after Slavic-language songs were removed, prompting accusations of ...

Like many important discoveries, it happened by accident. Alena Slamova, a Czech graduate student in archaeology, was routinely washing some animal bones that had been recovered from a dig in an early ...

In May 2024, a Moscow court banned several online job postings seeking candidates “of Slavic appearance” as illegal under Russian anti-discrimination labor laws and anti-extremism statutes, calling ...

In major museums, as well as at club nights and its own bar, the collective Slavs and Tatars casts a humorous eye over the region between the former Berlin Wall and the Great Wall of China. By ...

A July 2015 controversy involving women's healthcare provider Planned Parenthood (concerning the purported sale of fetal tissue) triggered a number of social media conversations about reproductive ...