19:45
VLADIMIR PUTIN ASSIGNS TASKS TO HIS ENVOYS TO FEDERAL DISTRICTS
Vladimir Putin has tasked his envoys to the federal districts with focusing on the delimitation of powers between federal centre and districts More details...

17:26
UNIQUE SUGAR FACTORY IS ON TRIAL IN VORONEZH
The equipment of a new sugar production facility designed by Kantek, a centre for modern technology development in Obninsk near Moscow, is on trial in the city of Voronezh in the south of Russia More details...

15:52
MOSCOW TO BE THE FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH IN NOVEMBER
Moscow will host the Russian Championship of Cookery and Consumer Service from November 8th to 11th. It has been organised as part of an international exhibition of goods and services for the foodstuffs and leisure industry, which is to be held in the Russian capital at the same time. More details...

15:28
COMMITTEE FOR PREPARING APEC FORUM SET UP IN VLADIVOSTOK
The organisational committee for preparing and conducting an APEC international investment forum has been set up in Vladivostok, a major port and industrial centre in the Russian Far East. The forum is due to be held here next September. More details...

13:05
YEGOR STROYEV RE-ELECTED GOVERNOR OF ORYOL REGION
The speaker of the Russian parliament's upper house, Yegor Stroyev, was re-elected governor of the Oryol Region (Central Russia) on Sunday. According to preliminary figures, Stroyev received over 91 percent of votes. More details...

10:04
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE POLICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN KRASNOYARSK
A three-day International Conference, Police and Human Rights, has taken place in Krasnoyarsk (Eastern Siberia) with the participation of experts from the Council of Europe (CE). More details...

15:19
OREL: GUBERNATORIAL POLL OVERSTEPS VALIDITY THRESHOLD
A gubernatorial election in the Orel Region (the Central federal district of Russia) will be valid as a 25-percent threshold turnout was jumped by 1:00 p.m., Moscow time, with 30 percent. More details...

15:06
TWO KILLED BY GRENADE IN TYUMEN CLUB
Two people were killed and eleven wounded when an F-1 grenade exploded in a cultural club in the Novolokti village, Siberia's Tyumen region, at 11:30 p.m., local time, last Saturday. Investigation is underway, the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations reports.

14:38
RUN-AWAY CRIMINAL DETAINED
Temurlan Aliyev, an inveterate criminal who escaped last Saturday from a detention cell in Buinaksk (Russia's republic of Daghestan bordering on Chechnya), was detained Sunday at 4:00 a.m., Moscow time, in the Chikei village, Buinaksk district, reports the local police department. More details...

14:26
KARACHAI-CIRCASSIA: RUSSIA'S INTERIOR MINISTRY FINISHES EXERCISE
A command and staff exercise of the federal Interior Ministry was underway in Karachai-Circassia, a North Caucasian autonomous republic, throughout last week, to finish today. More details...

11:14
DELEGATION OF CHINESE HEILONGJIANG PROVINCE COMMENCED ITS VISIT TO RUSSIAN FAR EAST
The official governmental delegation of the Chinese Heilongjiang province will stay in Khabarovsk (a regional centre of the Russian Far East) from October 27 till October 30. The aforementioned province is located on the Amur and Ussuri rivers along the Russo-Chinese border. More details...

09:47
LENINGRAD REGIONAL PROJECTS PUT ON PRIORITY LIST FOR EBRD CREDITS
Responding to a request from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the federal government has put together a short list of priority projects it would like the organization to help fund, and three of the four are located in the Leningrad region. More details...

16:51
ROSOBORONEXPORT AND MOSCOW GOVERNMENT SIGN GENERAL AGREEMENT ON COOPERATION
Andrei Belyaninov, general director of the Rosoboronexport State Company, and Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov signed a general agreement on cooperation between the company and the Moscow government today. More details...

11:33
PRIMORSKY REGION TO RECEIVE $7.7M IN ADDITIONAL FINANCIAL AID
The Russian government has prepared an instruction to allocate 228 million rubles (about $7.7 million) from additional revenues to the Primorsky Region. More details...

10:54
VIOLENT OCEAN CYCLONE RAGING IN KAMCHATKA AND NORTHERN KURIL ISLANDS
Last night, a violent ocean storm cyclone with strong wind hit the southern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East. More details...

19:51
INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS ADVISE SETTING UP UNIFIED POWER GRID OF NORTH-EAST ASIA
Participants in an international seminar of power experts, just completed, have recommended a unified power grid for North-East Asia countries - Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Mongolia. More details...

18:35
MOSCOW PLANS TO OFFER FOREIGN INVESTORS FIVE LARGE PLOTS OF CITY LAND FOR DEVELOPMENT
Moscow proposes to offer foreign investors, including those from the US, five large plots of city land for development. This theme was taken up during a meeting between Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and a group of leading American businessmen. More details...

16:18
GREF DECLARES FUTURE CONSTRUCTION OF KHABAROVSK-SAKHALIN RAILROAD BRIDGE UNIQUE
The construction of a railroad bridge between the Khabarovsk region and Sakhalin is the most promising investment project of Russia, and will have to be implemented sooner or later. More details...

15:54
$700M TO BE INVESTED IN SAKHALIN-1 PROJECT IN 2002
About $700 million will be invested in the Sakhalin-1 project in 2002, Economy Minister German Gref announced at a press conference today. The conference was devoted to results of his trip to the Sakhalin region. More details...

11:35
RUSSIAN INTERIOR MINISTRY HOLDS PLANNED COMMAND-STAFF EXERCISES IN KARACHAI-CIRCASSIA
The command-staff exercises of the Russian interior ministry, which are being held in Karachai-Circassia, (a North-Caucasus republic within the Russian Federation) "are of a planned character", Alexander Papura, interior minister of the Karachai-Circassian republic, said on Wednesday. More details...

11:08
MUNICIPAL LOANS COMMITTEE TO PLACE MOSCOW CITY BONDS AT MICEX TODAY
The Committee on Municipal Loans and Stock Market Development of Moscow will hold an auction at MICEX today to place city bonds of the 19th issue. More details...

10:18
FRENCH NAVY'S FREGATE ARRIVES IN VLADIVOSTOK PORT
The Prerial fregate of the French Navy has arrived today at the main base of Russia's Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok. More details...

15:30
ANATOLI BARANOW: WE ALL BECOME PATRONS OF ART
Tomorrow, the Moscow City Duma intends to award painter Alexandr Shilov with the title of Honorary Citizen of Moscow: “for merits before the capital in developing Russian culture and reviving traditions of patronage of art." More details...

12:42
MOSCOW READY TO DEVELOP BROAD MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL COOPERATION WITH ROMANIA
Moscow is ready to develop broad mutually beneficial cooperation with Romania in all spheres - political, economic and cultural, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said opening negotiations with his Romanian counterpart, incumbent OSCE chairman Mircea Geoana Monday. More details...

11:51
TOMSK MAIL WORKERS WEAR MASKS AND GLOVES
Mail workers of the Western Siberian city of Tomsk have been working in masks and gloves since Tuesday, Farit Astakhov, the Chief of the Regional Department of the Russian Federal Post, was quoted as saying. More details...

11:39
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF FAR EAST AND TRANSBAIKAL REGION TO BECOME GOVERNMENT'S PRIORITY IN NEXT FEW YEARS
The economic development of the Far East and the Transbaikal region will be the government's priority goal for the next few years, said German Gref, Minister of Economic Development and Trade, upon his arrival in Khabarovsk (administrative centre in the Russian Far East). More details...

11:30
JAPANESE CENTRE IN NIZHNY NOVGOROD
A Japanese Centre was opened on Tuesday in Nizhny Novgorod (Volga region). The decision to establish it was taken by the government of Japan in the context of the programme for the technological assistance to Russia. More details...

10:36
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA'S INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL TIMED TO COMPOSER'S ANNIVERSARY
Sofia Gubaidulina's international music festival is to be held in Moscow on October 23-31. The festival is timed to the composer's 70th anniversary. One of the most brilliant Russian composers of the 20th century Alfred Schnitke said about Gubaidulina, "She is incomprehensible, so she is a phenomenon. More details...

10:17
PILOT KILLED IN MI-2 HELICOPTER CRASH IN KAMCHATKA
A pilot was killed in a Tuesday helicopter crash in the Kamchatkan town of Ust-Bolsheretsk, Russia's Far East. More details...

15:12
ROSTOV EXPERTS DO NOT FIND ANTHRAX SPORES IN LETTER FROM BRITAIN
Experts with the Rostov anti-plague institute have not found anthrax spores in the powder a local resident had received in a letter from Great Britain. This is what RIA Novosti was told at the anti-plague institute of Rostov-on-Don, Russia's Southern Federal District. More details...