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These images of saints and apostles created by master Russian icon painters will leave you breathless and marveling at such skill. Centuries ago they...

Their masterpieces adorn leading museums around the world. Their visual language is so integral to the Russian cultural code that many people can...

Its prolongation is provided for in a resolution of the Culture Ministry on approving a standard form of such an agreement

Many works by these skilled needlewomen are real masterpieces, no less powerful in their artistic impact than the best examples of traditional...

(Reuters) - A revered religious painting that has just been transferred on President Vladimir Putin's orders from a museum to the Russian Orthodox Church needs a year of restoration and remains state property, the culture minister was quoted as saying on Friday.

EXCLUSIVE: Vladimir Putin recently moved an icon back from a museum to the Russian Orthodox Church - a decision that one expert says is intended to return the country to the days of empire.

A revered religious painting that has just been transferred on President Vladimir Putin's orders from a museum to the Russian Orthodox Church needs a year of restoration and remains state property, the culture minister was quoted as saying on Friday. Putin, who has found a willing ally in the Church for his vision of a conservative national identity, three weeks ago said through his spokesman that the "Trinity" icon was being transferred because "hiding it in a museum" d...

By Lucy Papachristou (Reuters) - A revered religious painting that has just been transferred on President Vladimir Putin's orders from a museum to the...

President Putin ordered the transfer of the medieval masterpiece from the State Tretyakov Gallery to the Russian Orthodox Church despite protests from restorers

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