KAMENSK-URALSKY, Russia — On the November day when Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was buried back in 1982, priests say the Kremlin ordered every church bell in the country to be rung in remembrance. It ...

MOSCOW – More than 10 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Orthodox Church is still recovering from damage done to its churches and monasteries. Last week, the church and its ...

It’s finally back to Russia for a set of antique Russian bells that have been on the Harvard University campus since 1930. After escaping imminent destruction by Soviet authorities, the bells have ...

A set of antique bells given to Harvard University in 1930 is creating a bigger din than officials want to hear. The bells once belonged to Moscow’s Saint Danilov Monastery, thought to be the oldest ...