Moscow
The Moscow daily Komsomolskaya pravda has created a religious furor by reporting that a Catholic monastery is running a brothel, with prostitutes dressed as nuns. The monastery says it unknowingly rented some property to a Moscow entrepreneur who has, in fact, set up a brothel and staffed it with hookers in habits. But the article failed to mention that the monastery is evicting the ladies. Religious-freedom activists said that the article could be part of a campaign by the Russian Orthodox Church to discredit Catholicism, which it sees as a competitor.
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