ST. PETERSBURG, January 11. /TASS/. The handover of the St. Isaac’s Cathedral museum, one of St. Petersburg's landmarks and a UNESCO World Heritage site, to the Russian Orthodox Church, may take at ...

ST.PETERSBURG, Russia – The Russian Orthodox Church has defended its controversial bid to fully take over St. Petersburg's landmark cathedral. St. Isaac's Cathedral features on the list of UNESCO's ...

MOSCOW, April 28. /TASS/. The status of the Patriarchal Cathedral that St Petersburg’s landmark Cathedral of St Isaac may get after its transfer to the administrative control of the Russian Orthodox ...

Hundreds of people surrounded St. Isaac's Cathedral amid competing protests over transferring the famed St. Petersburg building to the Russian Orthodox Church. The February 12 protest was the latest ...

Reporting from ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Protesters rallied in St. Petersburg on Saturday against plans by city authorities to give a landmark cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church amid an ...

St. Petersburg, Russia • Protesters rallied Saturday in St. Petersburg against plans by city authorities to give a landmark cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church amid an increasingly passionate ...

Confiscated by the Bolsheviks, first used as a warehouse and more recently a concert hall, the cathedral will be restored to the Orthodox diocese. In 2010 it was reopened for worship. Moscow (AsiaNews ...

More than three weeks have passed since activists first gathered to protest the city of St. Petersburg's decision to hand over control of the iconic St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox ...

In the mid-18th century the site now occupied by the cathedral had a small church built for the Izmailovsky regiment, the elite group of soldiers created in 1730 by Empress Anna to personally serve ...

ST PETERSBURG (REUTERS) - People attend a religious service at St Isaac's Cathedral in St Petersburg, Russia, commemorating victims of a Russian airliner which crashed in Egypt. The Airbus A321, ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. Several thousand people have demonstrated in St. Petersburg to protest against the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church.