“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

About Geraldine Fagan

Geraldine Fagan is author of Believing in Russia – Religious Policy after Communism, due out in paperback in spring 2014. She is Moscow correspondent for Forum 18 News Service.

Articles by Geraldine Fagan

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European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Russia’s spinning moral compass

Geraldine Fagan 16 November 2013

Vladimir Putin’s latest political course as president – from the jailing of Pussy Riot to the law against gay ‘propaganda’ – strikes many as being one defined by the Russian Orthodox Church. But is it really so?

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

Geraldine Fagan 28 July 2010

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.

Russia’s ambitious new Patriarch

Geraldine Fagan 12 February 2009

So what of Russia's new Patriarch Kirill? The man behind the Church's extraordinary overseas revival since the fall of communism is complex and contradictory, says Geraldine Fagan. But that is what's needed to lead the Russian Orthodox Church