Pope Francis on Tuesday met with the foreign minister of the Russian Orthodox Church ahead of a Nov. 25 visit to the Vatican by President Vladimir Putin | Artist Mutilates Self as Putin Paralyzes Russia - Bloomberg | Moscow is going full-out to transform itself into an international financial center

» Moscow Strives to Make Itself a Global Financial Center
12/11/13 13:16 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
Moscow is going full-out to transform itself into an international financial center, building business centers and overhauling its regulations to present an open face to investors, but the city's hopes are undermined by the lack of a ski...

» Two Killed In Russian Space Center Accident
12/11/13 12:32 from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Two soldiers died and three others received toxic burns on November 12 during a chemical spill at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia.

» European rights body urges Russia to reform judiciary - Reuters
12/11/13 12:13 from Russia - Google News
RT European rights body urges Russia to reform judiciary Reuters MOSCOW (Reuters) - A leading European human rights body urged President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to overhaul Russia's creaking judicial system, long criticized as vuln...

» Artist Mutilates Self as Putin Paralyzes Russia - Bloomberg
12/11/13 11:51 from Russia - Google News
Bloomberg Artist Mutilates Self as Putin Paralyzes Russia Bloomberg Reactions to the radical act, which Pavlensky meant to be a "metaphor of the apathy, political indifference and fatalism of modern Russian society," ranged fro..

» Pope-Russian Orthodox Talks Precede Putin Visit
12/11/13 10:03 from The Moscow Times Top Stories
Pope Francis on Tuesday met with the foreign minister of the Russian Orthodox Church ahead of a Nov. 25 visit to the Vatican by President Vladimir Putin.

» Train To Nowhere: Russian Prison Transfers Are Secretive, Arduous Affair
12/11/13 09:24 from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
The sudden removal of jailed Greenpeace activists from Murmansk and the rail journey odyssey of Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova have put a spotlight on the murky and stealthy business of prisoner transfers in Russia.