21:53
ANDREY KRUSHINSKY: FOREIGN MINISTERS REACH CONSENSUS ON ANTI-TERRORISM STANCE
Foreign ministers attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Ministerial Meeting on Thursday reached consensus today on anti-terrorism during their working breakfast hosted by Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan More details...

21:26
MARINA ROMANOVA: PSYCHIC ANTHRAX
Every day mass media count the victims of the “bacteriological war.” The medical officials try to convince the population in their “battle readiness” in return, saying they have the requisite vaccine More details...

20:38
SERGEI BORISOV: ARABS HAVE CNN OF THEIR OWN
The Arab satellite television company Al Jazira became the major source of information for 35 million people in the Middle East after the start of the war in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden selected Al Jazira as a communication channel with the whole world More details...

20:11
BILL WHITE: GUN GROUPS SEE STEADY BLEED INTO MILITIAS; DOMESTIC UNREST STILL GROWING IN UNITED STATES
When agents of America’s US Marshals surrounded the Indiana Baptist Temple, accusing the church and its parishioners of violating US tax laws by refusing to pay social security taxes on non-clergical employees, they didn’t charge in with guns blazing, as they did at Waco. Concern about bad publicity was there, but there was a more serious concern just under the surface – the Southern Indiana Regional Militia, a 250-man “unorganized” citizen’s militia unit, had pledged to defend the church – and their threats were taken seriously. More details...

20:02
IRINA MALENKO: AMERICAN SOLDIERS BEAT PORTUGUESE MILITARY MAN
American soldiers assaulted a military man from Portugal, who saluted to Osama bin Laden for fun when he appeared on a TV screen of NATO’s Lajes army base situated on the Portugal Azores island More details...

19:27
ANDREI LUBENSKY: WHITE POWDER FOUND IN UKRAINE
An envelope with suspicious white powder was found at the customs checkpoint in the town of Glukhov of the Sumskaya region of Ukraine More details...

18:57
USA BOMBED ANOTHER COLUMN OF REFUGEES
This was stated by Western news agencies with reference to sources from Afghanistan. According to the available information, an American bomber has bombed a column of refugees having taken a long line of trucks for the Taliban troops More details...

18:30
SADDAM HUSSEIN “ASHAMED” OF THE WEAKNESS OF ARAB NATIONS
President Saddam Hussein of Iraq has denounced the position of fellow Arab nations regarding the US attack on Afghanistan and answers Washington with customary defiance. Israel looks on with preoccupation. More details...

17:59
DMITRY LITVINOVICH: SAVING A FLOODED CITY
The Russian president kept his promise to give the residents of the city of Lensk (Yakutia republic), which suffered a large ammount damage by the flood last spring. The president arrived in Lensk to see what has been done in the city More details...

17:04
ABKHAZIA WANTS TO JOIN RUSSIA. WILL RUSSIA WANT IT?
The unrecognized republic of Abkhazia is preparing documents “about a possibility to set up associate relations with Russia.” This was stated yesterday by the vice-premier of the republic, Anry Jergenia More details...

16:00
DMITRY LITVINOVICH: TEA PARTIES WITH SWEETS. TEA FACTORY OWNER AND CHOCOLATE MANUFACTURER CREATING A RIVAL OF RUSSIAN MANUFACTURERS AND BUSINESSMEN UNION
Against the background of events in Afghanistan and Abkhazia, all other pieces of news look less important. On Wednesday, in Moscow, the constituent congress of the new public organization “Business Russia” took place. “So what? -one would say. More details...

14:30
THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENT’S INITIATIVES: BUSH IS GLAD, CASTRO FEELS SORROW, RUSSIA IS PUZZLED
Russia is facing a radical change in its foreign policy. The question about the withdrawal of Russian troops’ from Abkhazia has been solved; at the same time, Russia liquidates its bases in Cuba and Vietnam. President George Bush has already expressed his “full assent and agreement” to the recent initiatives of President Putin, while Fidel Castro has expressed his full “disagreement." More details...

13:35
ANTHRAX ANXIETY SWEEPS THE WESTERN WORLD
From San Francisco to New York, from London to Berlin to Rio, the anthrax scare has people worried. Sightings of “white dust” have scores of people panicking, stock-buying antibiotics and chemical warfare protection suits, which are useless against anthrax, a bacteria, invisible and odourless. More details...

13:00
ANDREI CHERKASOV: THE TOWN KAMYSHIN REWARDED
According to the results of the competition among small Russian towns in 2001, the town Kamyshin was declared “the most well-organized town om Russia." Mr Alferov, the town’s major, has even received a diploma from the competition’s organizers. More details...

12:20
THOMAS WOODS, JR.: WHY TERRORISM?
At 10:15am on September 11, five other professors and I gathered around a small radio in our department chairman’s office to try to figure out what was going on. Not only had the World Trade Center and the Pentagon been attacked, but we also heard (falsely, it turns out) that a car bomb had gone off outside the State Department and another outside the New York University Medical Center. More details...

12:00
IRINA MALENKO: A SHORT STORY ABOUT “THE ANTI-TERRORIST COALITION’S CREATION AND FIRM UNITY”
Already before launching the military actions against Afghanistan on October 4, the Dutch newspaper “Volkskrant” published some interesting information: “On Tuesday, during the NATO Council sitting, Netherlanders asked, without any success, for a while to think: to study proofs of bin Laden’s implication in the terrorist acts in the USA. More details...

11:02
STEPHEN HAWKING: HUMANITY IS WEAK ON ONE PLANET
The British physicist, Stephen Hawking, has declared that the human species will be vulnerable to extinction by the end of the third millennium if space travel is not approached with a perspective of the survival of humankind. More details...

10:20
STEVE KUBBY: GOVERNMENT IS A TERRIBLE MASTER
Everyone's talking about terrorism these days, but my family and I have experienced terrorism – up close and personal. We survived our terrorist attack and, in the process, we learned a great deal about how state-sponsored terrorism actually operates in America today. More details...

21:31
RUSSIA WITHDRAWS ARMY BASES IN CUBA AND VIETNAM
The world is arming in front of the threat of the international terrorism, but Russia is disarming More details...

20:53
TU-154 CRASH INVESTIGATION. UKRAINE DRAGS OUT
Ukraine set up a commission to investigate the reasons of the Russian Tu-154 plane crash. Something has to be done. Ukraine’s Defense Minister Alexander Kuzmuk temporarily dismissed the anti-missile defense troops commander-in-chief, Vladimir Tkachev and his deputy Vladimir Dyakov More details...

20:24
ANTHRAX SPREADING IN USA. 20 MORE PEOPLE INFECTED
The number of people infected with anthrax has increased rather considerably today in America. Washington officially declared yesterday, there were eight people who fell ill and were hospitalized More details...

19:44
LIVING WITH CORPSES
What can be more natural – a human being dies, a body is delivered to morgue, then it is buried. Sometimes, very weird things can happen More details...

19:43
THE SO-CALLED EVIDENCE IS A FARCE: FORMER GREEN BERET SAYS BUSH IS LYING
I'm a retired Special Forces Master Sergeant. That doesn't cut much for those who will only accept the opinions of former officers on military matters, since we enlisted swine are assumed to be incapable of grasping the nuances of doctrine. More details...

19:21
ALFRED KOKH TO PURCHASE GAZPROM’S MEDIA ASSETS
The Kommersant newspaper published a sensational statement from Alfred Kokh (the chairman of Board of Directors of Gazprom-Media), who said he was going to acquire all media assets of the Russian joint-stock gas giant Gazprom More details...

19:10
P.BUCHANAN: US IS THE EVIL EMPIRE
"Why do they hate us?" A month after the massacres, and the ugly scenes of Arabs and Moslems cheering the wounding of America, millions are still asking the question: What did we do that they should hate us so? More details...

18:24
YURY RAZGULYAEV: UZBEKISTAN DECLARES GAS BLOCKADE ON KYRGYZIA
The commotion around water and natural gas is gathering pace in the post-Soviet Central Asia. The republic of Kyrgyzia is already used to when the republic of Uzbekistan cuts the delivery of natural gas for several weeks or even months More details...

17:59
ASSASSINATION OF ISRAELI MINISTER CAUSES FURY IN TEL AVIV
One day after General Sharon admitted that he accepted a Palestine state, the leader of one of Israel’s far-right political parties was shot dead. The immediate reaction from Tel Aviv is that “things will change," but there is hidden intrigue behind the scenes. More details...

17:23
STATISTICS COMMITTEE RELEASES DATA ON COMPANIES' FINANCIAL RESULTS
The balanced financial result (profits minus losses) achieved by Russia's companies and organizations in January-August 2001 reached 752.9 billion rubles in current prices, or $26 billion (in the first 8 months of 2000 the balanced financial result reached 789.9 billion rubles, or $27.9 billion). More details...

16:58
DMITRY LITVINOVICH: BUSINESS AND WAR. AMERICA’S ECONOMIC INTERESTS IN AFGHANISTAN
The horrible details of the tragedy of September 11 are slowly fading into the background. The first shock is gone, so now it is time to analyze the situation without emotions and hysterical yelling. America was not ready for such a large scale aggression. Why did it happen that way, and why did the American services failed to do anything to prevent that? More details...

15:48
DMITRY LITVINOVICH: THE US RECOGNIZED THE TALIBAN, THOUGH NOT ALL OF THEM
Secretary of State Colin Powell is continuing his diplomatic tour of the countries of Southeast Asia. Yesterday, he visited Islamabad and Delhi. More details...