20:37
SPEAKER OF THE RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT'S UPPER HOUSE FINDS SWITZERLAND'S EXPERIENCE IN HOLDING REFERENDUMS INTERESTING
Switzerland's experience and state structure are interesting and will be studied to build a "normal federal state" in Russia, the speaker of the Federation Council (upper house of Russian parliament), Yegor Stroyev, said upon his meeting with the President of Switzerland's National Council, Peter Hess. More details...

20:34
RUSSIAN SPEAKER AGAINST NEGOTIATIONS WITH CHECHEN TERRORISTS AND SEPARATISTS
Yegor Stroyev, the Chairman of the Federation Council (the upper house of the Russian parliament), bluntly opposes the negotiations with Chechen terrorists and separatists with blood on their hands More details...

20:28
RUSSIAN, PORTUGUESE PRESIDENTS POINT TO OSCE MAJOR ROLE IN WORLD RELATIONS
Following the ceremony of signing bilateral documents this Friday, the presidents of Russia and Portugal noted the importance of the OSCE in the system of international institutions More details...

20:27
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT REAFFIRMS NECESSITY TO COMBAT TERRORISM ON EVERY FRONT
Vladimir Putin has stated that combating terrorism requires joint efforts of all international community and should be conducted on every front More details...

20:26
RUSSIA, AFGHANISTAN ARE PARTNERS - AFGHAN AMBASSADOR
Russia and Afghanistan "are partners and our relations are of a strategic nature," the ambassador of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, Abdul Wahab Asefi, has told a press conference in Moscow More details...

20:18
SERGEY BORISOV: THE PENTAGON REALIZES THAT THE TALIBAN IS A HARD NUT TO CRACK
Americans claim they are not placing poison in the humanitarian aid to the Afghan people. Several Pentagon officials had to release such claims. More details...

18:53
OUR HELP COSTS A LOT
The reduction of the world prices on oil causes concern for the Russian management team. The burden of the foreign debts is very heavy for Russia and no one is going to facilitate it More details...

14:08
PORTUGUESE PRESIDENT: RUSSIA PLAYS CRUCIAL ROLE IN EUROPEAN PEACE AND SECURITY
"Russia plays a crucial role in maintaining peace and security in Europe," said Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio during the Russian-Portuguese full-scale negotiations in Moscow More details...

12:30
BILL WHITE: ISRAELI LOBBY SCRAMBLING FOR NEW APPROACH TO CRISIS (PART 2)
As Their Allies In Defense Face A Purge, America’s “Official” Jewish Groups Look For Justice To Promote Agenda More details...

12:04
RUSSIAN PM DISMISSED MINISTER INVOLVED IN CORRUPTION SCANDAL
Russian prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov has instructed first deputy railway minister Alexander Tselko to replace Nikolai Aksyonenko as head of the railway ministry. Nikolai Aksyonenko has urgently taken a leave from work, the government information department reported. More details...

11:48
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT SIGNS LAND CODE INTO LAW
Russian President Vladimir Putin has singed into law the Land Code of the Russian Federation, the presidential press service reported on Friday. More details...

11:16
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV FOR CREATING NEW WORLD ORDER
A second part of the international conference devoted to consolidation of democracy and organized by the Gorbachev Foundation jointly with the Spanish Fund of International Relations and Dialogue with Other Countries (FRIDE) opened in Madrid on Thursday. More details...

22:04
INFORMAL MEETING BETWEEN YELTSIN, UKRAINE'S KUCHMA EXPECTED IN CRIMEA FRIDAY
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma is expected to hold an informal meeting with the first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, in the Crimea on Friday More details...

20:16
U.S. SENATORS MOVE ABM TREATY BILL, RUSSIA APPROVES
Russia is enthusiastic about a bill on US dedication to the ABM treaty, as offered to the Senate by a group of its members, says the Ministry of Foreign Affairs More details...

19:57
BILL WHITE: ISRAELI LOBBY SCRAMBLING FOR NEW APPROACH TO CRISIS (PART 1)
As Their Allies In Defense Face A Purge, America’s “Official” Jewish Groups Look For Justice To Promote Agenda More details...

19:35
RUSSIAN EXPERT COMMENTS ON THE POSSIBILITY OF RUSSIA'S ALLYING WITH THE USA
The emergence of a common enemy of Russia and the United States in the person of international terrorism brings about the possibility of a radical transformation of Russian-U.S. relations More details...

19:29
ABKHAZIA BELIEVES THAT INTER-STATE RELATIONS WITH GEORGIA ARE POSSIBLE
Abkhazia (a self-proclaimed republic within Georgia) does not exclude the possibility of holding negotiations with Georgia on establishing inter-state relations on an equal basis More details...

19:15
RUSSIAN COMMUNIST LEADER AGAINST WITHDRAWING PEACE-KEEPERS FROM GEORGIA-ABKHAZ CONFLICT ZONE
Gennady Zyuganov, the communist leader, has come out against withdrawing Russian peace-keepers from the Georgia-Abkhaz conflict zone More details...

19:04
ROBERTSON HIGHLY APPRAISES JOINT EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORISM
When appearing at the international seminar, The Future of Trans-Atlantic Relations, which concluded in Lisbon on Thursday, Nato Secretary-General Lord George Robertson said that he highly appraised the joint efforts being made by the North Atlantic alliance and Russia to combat terrorism More details...

18:38
RUSSIAN COMMUNIST LEADER CALLS "MILITARY AGGRESSION" U.S. ANTITERRORIST OPERATION IN AFGHANISTAN
Leader of the Russian Communist Party /the KPRF/ Gennadi Zyuganov has called "military aggression" the United States' antiterrorist operation in Afghanistan More details...

18:35
KREMLIN OFFICIAL CLAIMS AKSYONENKO CASE DOES NOT HAVE POLITICAL COMPONENT
Criminal case against Transport Minister Nikolai Aksyonenko is said to be devoid of political component, the Kremlin Deputy Chief of Staff Dmitry Kozak said during a Thursday press conference in Izvestiya's media center in Moscow More details...

16:41
RUSSIA'S AGRARIAN PARTY BOSS: BUMPER CROP HARVEST IS NO SOLUTION FOR SECTORAL HEADACHES
At a RIA Novosti press conference, Agrarian Party leader Mikhail Lapshin cited an update on cereals harvested in Russia More details...

14:16
PUTIN FOR TOUGHER WORK OF CUSTOMS OFFICERS
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin met Mikhail Vanin, head of the State Customs Committee. According to presidential spokesman Alexei Gromov, the head of state instructed Vanin to congratulate on his behalf customs personnel on the Day of Customs and the Russian Customs Committee's 10th anniversary. More details...

13:19
VLADIMIR PUTIN ACKNOWLEDGES GREAT CONTRIBUTION OF RUSSIAN CUSTOMS OFFICIALS INTO FEDERAL BUDGET
Russian President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged the important contribution of the Russian customs officials into the formation of the Russian budget. More details...

18:32
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT HOLDS ROUTINE MEETINGS WITH FEDERAL FINANCE MINISTER, TATARSTAN PRESIDENT
President Vladimir Putin has held a routine meeting with Russian Vice-Premier and Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin. More details...

17:27
RUSSIAN MP PUSHES FOR MORE STRINGENT MIGRATION LAW
Dmitry Rogozin, head of the international affairs committee of the State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, advocated in remarks to the press more stringent legislation governing Russia's migration policies. He was commenting on the resolution the State Duma enacted on Wednesday on measures designed to bring order to migration policies in the Russian territory. More details...

16:37
VLADIMIR PUTIN CALLS FOR UPGRADING QUALITY OF RUSSIAN MILITARY HARDWARE
Russian President Vladimir Putin has deemed it necessary to upgrade quality of the Russia-exported military hardware and subsequent maintenance. There has not been done enough to improve it, the president said at a conference held in Kremlin on the agenda dominated by military-technological cooperation issues. More details...

13:51
RUSSIA'S MILITARY AND TECHNOLOGICAL COOPERATION WITH OTHER COUNTRIES DISCUSSED IN THE KREMLIN
The commission for Russia's military and technological cooperation with foreign countries has met in the Kremlin under the chairmanship of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The session was attended by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and key ministers.

10:23
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VOICED HIS STAND ON FINANCIAL ABUSES BY GOVERNMENT MEMBER
At the Kremlin meeting with the president of Russia on October 23 the leaders of the State Duma associations expressed interest in the head of state's opinion of the case launched by the Prosecutor-General's Office against abuses by Minister of Railways Nikolai Aksyonenko. After the conversation with the president speaker of the lower chamber - the State Duma - Gennady Seleznyov said that Vladimir Putin, commenting on the fact of the filing of a criminal case against Aksyonenko, said that if the prosecutor's office has materials it can open a criminal case, since it is entitled to do so. More details...

18:56
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT RECOMMENDED TO DRAW UP PROGRAMME FOR HEALTHY LIVING
Parliamentary hearings held in Moscow have recommended the Russian government to draw up and approve a special federal programme of healthy living. More details...