After a break of nearly a year, the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists Moscow offices are back on the road again with a motorised, missionary expedition. A 10.000-kilometre-expedition ...

In the Western Russian city of Smolensk, forces allied with the powers ruling in Russia have discovered a new means of eliminating formidable opposition candidates: simply label them Baptists. A fake ...

At a meeting in Moscow on 23 February, Alexei Vasilevich Smirnov was elected Secretary and head of the “Public Council”. Though Smirnov is a pastor in a congregation belonging to the “Association of ...

Russia is wasting its greatest wealth of all – its youth. That was the opinion of Yuri Sipko, President of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, at the National Prayer Breakfast in ...

European Baptists want to be together. One clear indication is the fact that the Russian “Logos”-Choir hopes to send 40 singers to the festive conference celebrating the 400th anniversary of the ...

Chechnya and its capital Grozny are being rapidly rebuilt, and Baptists need to be a part of that rebuilding process. That was the conclusion of Rev. Vitaly Vlasenko. Russian Baptist leader visits ...

The Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists’ Union Council will nominate Viktor Ryaguzov to succeed Yuri Sipko as RUECB-President at the next Convention slated for 23–25 March 2010. Results ...

On 3 April, Alexander Dvorkin, the Russian priest most famous for the defamation of religious groups not belonging to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Orthodox faith, was elected Chairman of the ...

Who precisely are the “Evangelical Christians” within the “Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists”? We Baptists ourselves sometimes add to the general confusion. Who are the Evangelical ...

In an interview on 4 May, RUECB-President Yuri Sipko portrayed his church as the champion of state constitutionality. Yuri Sipko laments the failure of a worthy dictatorship M o s c o w -- In ...

The high-level and long-standing cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists will continue. Initial meeting with the ...

Minsk’s “Good News” Baptist congregation has made great progress. What had begun in 1990 with a handful of believers stemming from the unregistered Baptist movement has blossomed into Minsk’s ...

Minority Christian leaders in Russia fear the government's re-establishment of a Ministry of Justice council could signal a return to Soviet era persecution against Christians. The head of the ...

Meetings of a Baptist delegation with government and Russian Orthodox Church officials in Voronesh on 4 June proved once again the unique status of interconfessional relations in this western ...

Near the White Russian village of Imenin seven kilometres north of the Baptist stronghold of Kobrin, a sword has been transformed into a children’s camp of impressive dimensions. ...

“Russia is a deeply troubled country and is literally becoming a dying nation.” That was the conclusion of Marilyn Murray, a US-American psychotherapist and educator specialising in the long-term ...

“Our expectations were not fulfilled.” That was the response of Rev. Vitaly Vlasenko, Director of External Church Relations for the RUECB, following the first official visit of Barack Obama as ...

Just in time before the start of summer holidays, Uzbekistan’s Baptist children’s camp, “Radost” (Joy) in the mountains outside the capital city of Tashkent has been closed. Criminal proceedings ...

The Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists’ Department of External Church Relations plans to recommend to its Union Council that the church rejoin the Geneva-based “Conference of European ...

The ethnic-Kazakh evangelicals of Kazakhstan sometimes describe their conversion as a return to the roots. Report on a Country with Christian Roots M o s c o w – The ethnic-Kazakh ...