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About Geraldine Fagan

Geraldine Fagan is Moscow correspondent of Forum 18 News Service www.forum18.org

Articles by Geraldine Fagan

Wednesday 28th July

Soviet anti-religion has returned, claim Europe's last surviving pagans

In their remote forest republic 400 miles east of the Moscow, the pagan Mari people are once again being harassed by the authorities. While the administrative lever used today is different — charges of “extremism” — their approach is more than reminiscent of the way their Soviet counterparts dealt with dissent.
Thursday 12th February

Russia’s ambitious new Patriarch

Kirill, the skiing, worldly patriarch must balance openness abroad and diplomacy at home
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