MOSCOW - A new patriarch was seated on the throne of the Russian Orthodox Church Sunday, becoming the first leader of the world's largest Orthodox church to take office after the fall of the Soviet Union. Patriarch Kirill, a veteran church diplomat and cautious advocate of change, became the 16th to bear the title in a solemn ceremony at Christ the Savior Cathedral, Moscow's most opulent church and itself a symbol of the rebirth of the Orthodox faith. The original 19th-Century was dynamited under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in 1931, but rebuilt in the late 1990s following the collapse of the...
US: missile spat with Russia will be worked out
Kansas City Star
Kansas City Star
More News The United States is expressing confidence that a spat over missile defense with Russia will not be an impediment to arms reduction talks. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters Tuesday that the...
Obama's trip: 3 more countries, 1 broad mission
Kansas City Star
Kansas City Star
Mikhail Metzel An unidentified woman pushes a symbolic Reset Button for US - Russian relations as she stands between life-size cardboard cutouts of Russian Presidents Dmitry Medvedev, left, and U.S. President Barak...
Russia declassifies archive files about USSR's top secret agent in Nazi Germany
Pravda RU
Pravda RU
Russia’s External Intelligence Service declassified the archives about one of the most prominent Soviet intelligence officers in Nazi Germany – Willy Leman, a top secret Soviet agent nicknamed as Breitenbach. He was...



