18:05
THE STATE DUMA VOTED: TO WITHDRAW IMMUNITY FROM DEPUTY VLADIMIR GOLOVLEV
The Russian Federation State Duma (the parliament) voted to withdraw the deputy immunity from the Union of Rightist Forces faction member, deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee for budget and revenues, Vladimir Golovlev More details...

16:46
RUSSIAN FATHER CHRISTMAS ARRIVES IN MOSCOW IN NOVEMBER
Everyone likes merry and good-natured Russian Father Christmas. We can't imagine a New Year without him. The international forum "The Russian Father Christmas" is to keep the old tradition. The forum will be held in Moscow on November 12-18, the organizers told a news conference Thursday. More details...

15:51
SIGNS OF DISCONTENT IN US POPULATION
Although the Unites States’ administration continues to enjoy massive support, there are clear signs that preoccupation and discontent are beginning to unsettle the people of the USA. More details...

15:42
ANDREY LUBENSKY: TU-154 CRASH INVESTIGATORY EXPERIMENT TO TAKE PLACE TODAY
The investigatory experiment will take place in the Crimea on Thursday. The experiment will be held within the framework of the criminal case pertaining to the crash of the Russian Tu-154 passenger airliner, which fell into the Black Sea after being hit by a Ukrainian missile More details...

15:39
THE NINTH CRUISE MISSILE GRANIT HAS BEEN UNLOADED FROM THE KURSK SUBMARINE
The ninth cruise missile Granit has been unloaded from the Kursk submarine's missile launching silo, said the chief of the Northern Fleet's press service, Vladimir Navrotsky. More details...

15:13
NORTHERN FLEET PRESS SERVICE DENY REPORT THAT BODY OF KURSK SUBMARINE COMMANDER GENNADY LYACHIN DISCOVERED.
Allegations passed to some media companies regarding the discovery of Commander Gennady Lyachin in the body of the Kursk nuclear submarine are completely unfounded. This was disclosed by the chief of the Northern Fleets' press service, Vladimir Navrotski More details...

12:03
PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA: CONSIDERATION OF CITIZENS' COMPLAINTS IS A MOST IMPORTANT FUNCTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
One of the most important functions of the Constitutional Court is to consider the complaints of citizens, said Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday in the Marble Hall of the Kremlin during the session devoted to the 10th anniversary of the Constitutional Court. More details...

19:31
RUSSIA IS HOME TO CLOSE ON 150,000 AFGHANS
Living in Russia at the moment are about 150,000 Afghans, with 98 per cent of them being refugees. More details...

18:48
INVESTIGATION INTO JUNE 1995 TERRORIST ASSAULT ON BUDYONNOVSK COMPLETED
The North Caucasus department of the Russian prosecutor general's office has completed an investigation into the case of six bandits of the Basayev gang, who attacked Budyonnovsk /the Stavropol Territory, south of Russia/ on June 14, 1995. Deputy prosecutor general of the southern federal district Vladimir Rudyak said as much Wednesday. More details...

15:57
MORE THAN 2 MLN. CRIMES REVEALED BY PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE OVER PAST NINE MONTHS
Approximately 2,270,000 crimes have been committed over the past nine months, Yuri Bikyukov, the First Deputy Prosecutor General, stated on Wednesday during a speech in the State Duma (the lower chamber of the Russian parliament.) More details...

15:07
THE PETERSBURG CUSTOMS OFFICERS DETAINED A BIG CONSIGNMENT OF ICONS
A big consignment of icons has been detained at the Pulkovo Customs House (St. Petersburg). The parcel which contained forty unique icons of the 18th-19th centuries was found among the postal sendings which were to go by flight Saint Petersburg - Frankfurt. RIA Novosti was told about it in the press service of the North Western Customs Department. More details...

14:33
CRIMINAL CASES LAUNCHED BY RUSSIAN PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE NOT SHORT-TERM
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office denies statements that the recently launched criminal cases against a number of officials are a short-term campaign. More details...

13:49
FUNDS ALLOCATED TO REPAIR EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS DAMAGED BY NATURAL DISASTERS
Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a decree according to which funds are allocated from the Russian president's reserve in the last quarter of the year 2001 to repair Russian regions' educational establishments that suffered from natural disasters. The decree is aimed at improving social protection of children. More details...

20:50
AGENCY REGULATING DEFENSE INDUSTRIES MULLED
Russian President Vladimir Putin has directed Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov to look into a possibility of setting up an agency, with the President, that would regulate military-industrial complex activities More details...

20:44
PUTTING SPACECRAFT WITH RUSSIAN-MADE DEVICE KHEND IN MARS ORBIT AN EXAMPLE OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
The launch into the Mars orbit of a NASA interplanetary spacecraft, 2001 Mars Odysseus, which incorporates a Russian device called KHEND, is one more example of international cooperation in the peaceful exploration of outer space More details...

20:07
49 BODIES RECOVERED FROM KURSK SUB
Russia's Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov has said Tuesday that two bodies of the sunk Kursk sailors have been recovered today, thus bringing the total to 49, of whom 31 have been identified More details...

19:34
PART OF KURSK CREW DIED 135 SECONDS AFTER DISASTER, OTHERS LIVED ANOTHER 4-6 HOURS
Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov has confirmed that part of the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine's crew died of carbon monoxide suffocation 135 seconds after the disaster, while the rest lived another 4 to 6 hours More details...

19:07
RUSSIAN MAIL TESTED FOR ANTHRAX SPORES
About 50,000 police inspectors as well as other law-enforcement officers are busy handling mail to test it for anthrax spores More details...

19:05
8 CRUISE MISSILES UNLOADED FROM KURSK
Eight cruise missiles have been offloaded from the Kursk submarine, Russia's navy commander-in-chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov told journalists. He said 8 Granit cruise missiles had been recovered from the Kursk's missile silos More details...

18:30
BRITISH PEOPLE DO NOT SUPPORT AFGHAN WAR THAT MUCH
The opinion poll, carried out by the Guardian newspaper (UK) shows that the support of the British people towards the war in Afghanistan dropped More details...

18:19
RUSSIA'S SECURITY COUNCIL: MONETARY INFLUX FROM ABROAD TO CHECHEN BANDIT FORMATIONS HAS ENDED
Valentin Sobolev, deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council, said that the inflow of money from abroad to bandit formations in Chechnya had ended More details...

18:12
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC ASKS JUDGES NOT TO DELAY TRIAL BUT PASS SENTENCE AT ONCE
On Tuesday former president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic invited judges of the International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia not to launch a trial which may run into as much as three years but pass a sentence at once More details...

17:49
MILSOEVIC TRIAL SET FOR FEBRUARY 12TH 2002
Judge Richard May has today set the date for the trial of ex-Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic at the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the Hague More details...

17:11
YURY RAZGULAYEV: IT IS HARD TO GET AN EDUCATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF KYRGYZIA
The secondary schools of the republic of Kyrgyzia are currently experiencing a very serious crisis. There is a lack of everything: class rooms, visual aids, text books, and teachers More details...

17:02
AVIATION HOLDING SUKHOI ESTABLISHED IN RUSSIA
The establishment of the Sukhoi Aviation Holding Company opens a new page in reforming the Russian defense industry and will allow to concentrate efforts on creating warplanes of the fifth generation More details...

17:00
RUSSIAN POPULATION SHRINKING
Statistics revealed by the State Statistics Committee reveal that the population of Russia is shrinking by 0.3% of the total population every year. More details...

16:52
DEPUTY PM HEADS FOR SEVEROMORSK
Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov, who chairs the government commission probing into the causes of the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster, is heading for Severomorsk late on Tuesday More details...

16:27
RUSSIA COOKS ANTIMONEY-LAUNDERING PAPER
A document establishing a body that would oppose laundering profits gained by illegal methods "will be prepared and signed in the near future", said Vladimir Putin, answering questions from participants in a visiting session of the World Economic Forum in Moscow More details...

16:18
RUSSIA AND UN CO-OPERATE TO PROVIDE AFGHANISTAN WITH HUMANITARIAN AID
Russian Foreign Minister today held a meeting in Moscow with UN Under Secretary for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Kenzo Oshima. They discussed Russian-UN co-operation for the planning and carrying out of the relief effort in Afghanistan More details...

15:15
HEAD OF CUSTOMS COMMITTEE FOR STRENGTHENING ROLE OF CUSTOMS
The September 11 events revealed the need to strengthen the role of the customs service and the law-enforcement departments attached to it for maintaining the state security, the head of the State Customs Committee Mikhail Vanin said at the International Economic forum session in Moscow. More details...