Russia

A worker has died at a Moscow waste disposal plant after falling into an incinerator.

The US offensive against the Taliban stronghold of Marjah in southern Afghanistan was branded a great success by NATO, but investigative journalist Gareth Porter says the operation was, in fact, a PR campaign.

In Mexico, miners are continuing to blockade the country’s biggest copper mine in a strike that has already cost US$1.5 billion dollars. Workers are demanding better safety conditions.

Sexual harassment in the workplace is a sad reality for many women in modern Russia. But without established laws to protect female employees from unwanted attention, many victims suffer in silence.

Nearly a decade after the national tragedy of 9/11, voices still speak loudly saying people of the US are denied the truth.

While the major lobbying group for the US healthcare industry held its annual meeting at the Washington, DC Ritz-Carlton, angry protester outside demanded the reform they have been promised.

Bulldozers destroyed the Muromtseva dacha in Tsaritsyno during a dawn raid by police and a demolition crew, just over two months after a mysterious fire gutted the building.

Moscow prosecutors may slap extremism charges against a Polish literary magazine in a case that threatens to strain Polish-Russian relations just a month before Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with his Polish counterpart for a historic meeting.

Institutions are corrupt to the core, infrastructure is collapsing, innovation is meager, and investment is evaporating.

The government's cash-for-clunkers program, which was slated to begin on March 8, International Women's Day, is suffering from a lack of clarity and poor timing, market participants said Tuesday.