This vintage soup recipe combines all the latest gastronomic trends: slow cooking, fermentation and vegetarianism. Let's give it a try! The soup also appears in one of the last records made during the ...

Russia's Valaam Island has been a destination for religious pilgrims for hundreds of years. A 14th-century monastery and the natural beauty of Lake Ladoga have attracted visitors including tsars and ...

MINSK, 25 July (BelTA) – The presidents of Belarus and Russia, Aleksandr Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin, met on the island of Valaam (Lake Ladoga) in Karelia, BelTA has learned. When in the Valaam ...

Moscow patriarch visits the monastery on Lake Ladoga. Under Soviet rule, the complex was all but ruins by the 1960s. “[M]onastic life itself now resumes with unexpected vigour”. Vladimir Putin was ...

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia has started production of its newest hypersonic missiles and reaffirmed its plans to deploy them to ally Belarus later this year. Sitting ...

A test of successful negotiation. On the evening of August 3, Alexander Lukashenko returned to Belarus after a three-day visit to Russia. This time Vladimir Putin invited his "little brother" to visit ...

It seems that Putin has summoned Lukashenko to Valaam for psychotherapy. He needs psychological support before entering into a new protracted conflict with the United States. All dictators are lonely ...

On December 13, 2016, the feast-day of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called, the Stavropegic Valaam Monastery of the Transfiguration celebrated the twenty-seventh anniversary of the rebirth of ...

MINSK, 1 August (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko and President of Russia Vladimir Putin are having a meeting on Valaam Island, Lake Ladoga, Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, ...