Putin’s Woes Mount With Deadly Moscow Restaurant Bombing

ALEXANDER KAZAKOV / POOL/AFP via Getty Images Three people were killed and 15 injured after an explosion tore through an upscale Moscow restaurant on Saturday evening where local reports said a top Russian general was celebrating his birthday. The blast occurred around 8 p.m. local time at the Balzi Rossi restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square, located on the ground floor of one of Moscow’s Stalin-era skyscrapers. After a flurry of conflicting reports suggesting the blast had been caused by a gas…