23:13
RUSSIA SUPPORTS U.S.-BRITISH ANTI-TERROR ACTION IN AFGHANISTAN
Russia supports US-British anti-terror action in Afghanistan. Terrorism is a formidable threat to global peace and security, and must be counteracted by all means complying with the United Nations Charter. More details...

17:08
INVESTIGATION GROUP WORKS EQUALLY WORKS ON ALL VERSIONS OF THE TU-154 CRASH
The group investigating reasons for the Tu-154 crash is working equally on “absolutely all versions of the crash," Sergei Fridinski, deputy public prosecutor general said at a press conference. He stated that before receiving conclusions for the expert groups that are investigating the crash, “any information could not be regarded as reliable." More details...

16:25
ANDREI LUBENSKI: UKRAINIAN MILITARY OFFICIALS STILL DENYING THEIR IMPLICATION IN TU-154 CRASH. THOUGH NOBODY BELIEVES THEM
Just after reports about supposed anti-aircraft missile hitting a Russian Tu-154, officials of Ukrainian Defence Ministry started to appear with refutations. According to commander general of Ukrainian anti-aircraft troops, Colonel-General Vladimir Tkachev, the results of objective and radiometric examination clearly show that any Ukrainian missile could not have hit the Tu-154. More details...

14:36
13-YEAR OLD GIRL SUSPECTED OF HER FATHER’S MURDER
A schoolgirl from a secondary school of the town Pavlov Posad, Moscow region, is being accused of a crime, ITAR- TASS reports. The girl was detained and an investigation is being carried out. More details...

14:06
MOTHER BEAR SUCKLED 16-MONTH CHILD FOR THREE DAYS
In Iran, a 16-month child has been found in a bear’s lair, Reuters reported. For three days, a rescue party was searching for the child of Iranian nomads who disappeared from the camp while the parents were working in the field. The searchers assumed that the mother bear was suckling the child. According to medical experts, the child feels well. Probably, the bear’s milk has really refreshed the Iranian Mougli.

13:20
ANDREI CHERKASOV: IN THE TOWN SUROVKINO, EVEN COSSACKS SYMPATHIZE WITH OLD BELIEVERS
The Old Believers’ community of the town ofSurovkino has addressed the businessmen, leaders of plants and economies, and farmers, asking to help them to revive their church. More details...

12:15
ANNA KOLCHAK: BOLSHAYA DMITROVKA STREET ONLY FOR COUNCIL OF FEDERATION
The district assembly of the Tverskaya town council of the Moscow Central Administrative District addressed the Moscow City Duma ,protesting against Vice Mayor Valeri Shantsev’s decision regarding the closing of Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street for traffic. More details...

11:12
USA: TERRORIST HAD PASSPORT FROM NONEXISTENT COUNTRY
The terrorist Mohammed Atta boarded one of the aircraft that collided with the World Trade Center on September 11th using a passport from the “Republic of Conch," which does not exist. More details...

11:07
BRAZIL: INDIANS INVADE LANDS
500 Indians have invaded lands and have taken hostages in protest against the taking of their traditional possessions. More details...

11:03
RUSSIA, THE EUROPEAN UNION, AND NATO
On the eve of President Vladimir Putin’s 49th birthday, Russia, the EU and NATO are taking firm steps towards a new and open partnership on the threshold of a new order for the Third Millennium. More details...

21:35
MIKHAIL DELYAGIN: ACT OF TERROR – PREPARATIONS AND REALIZATION
Director of the Institute for globalization problems Mikhail Delyagin has recently published the work, which was basically devoted to the terror attack in the United States of America. PRAVDA.Ru publishes the most interests moments of it More details...

18:42
BEAR SCALPED 11-YEAR-OLD BOY
A bear scalped an 11-year-old boy in the zoo of the town of Volsk, the Saratov region. Pavel Pikin was walking around in the park and somehow got into the cage with two bears More details...

18:14
OFFICIAL: NATO TROOPS TO LAND IN UZBEKISTAN
The rumors that NATO troops landed in the republic of Uzbekistan appeared long ago. There was even a certain military division named – the U.S. 10th mountain division More details...

17:51
TU-154 CRASH: UKRAINE NOT SURE ABOUT MISSILE THEORY
Specialists in the city of Rostov-on-Don started decoding video and audio material that could cast light on the Russian Tu-154 passenger aircraft crash that took place yesterday More details...

15:33
CALL BIN LADEN
Now everybody has this unique opportunity. In Germany the number of Osama bin Laden’s satellite telephone has been published. According to German mass media, this number is 00873-682505331. More details...

14:50
TONY BLAIR DELIGHTED WITH HIS EXPRESS-VISIT TO MOSCOW
British prime-minister Tony Blair has departed from Moscow. In the airport, he kept himself from communication with the press. Therefore, the politician’s destination is unknown. What was the subject of conversations between Putin and Blair? One can only judge from the information of official sources. More details...

14:30
DON MATHEWS: THE ECONOMIC COST OF EVIL
The atrocity of September 11 should remind us of an economic lesson that is better taught by the Bible than by any economics treatise. The greatest threat to prosperity is not inflationary central bank policy, or high rates of taxation, or overbearing regulation. Those do much damage, to be sure, but they are symptoms of the disease, not the disease itself. More details...

14:00
REPORTS ABOUT DISCOVERING BULLET INLETS ON A FRAGMENT OF TU-154 FUSELAGE NOT CONFIRMED YET
Sources of the state commission investigating reasons of Tu-154 crash do not confirm reports that bullet inlets had been discovered on a fragment of the airliner’s fuselage. More details...

13:00
UKRAINIAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT FORCES?
“We have reasons to suppose that this has been a terrorist act, though other versions cannot be excluded, including that ones connected with manoeuvres of Ukrainian anti-aircraft forces”, ‘Unity’ faction’s leader Vladimir Pekhtin stated today while touching upon the yesterday’s explosion of Tu-154 aircraft of ‘Sibir’ air company. More details...

12:30
BODIES OF TU-154 CRASH'S VICTIMS DELIVERED TO SOCHI
The cargo ship ‘Kapitan Vakula’ has arrived in the city of Sochi that delivered in the harbour the bodies of Tu-154 aircraft crash’s victims. Fragments of the aircraft’s boarding, as well as a part of the cockpit were also transported by the cargo ship. That was all the rescuers managed to find at the crash site. More details...

12:20
THE BUSHES AND THE PALESTINIANS: ACT 2
One taboo prevalent in the first weeks after September 11 is already listing badly: it is becoming less mandatory to pretend that the attack has "absolutely nothing to do" with the American tie to Israel. Writing in the Wall Street Journal shortly after the attack, Norman Podhoretz insisted on the lack of any meaningful connection, and several subsequent commentators, including, initially, President Bush himself, asserted he terror was completely unrelated to any American policies in the Mid East. Generally it was attributed to Islamic dislike of American freedoms, success, to "who we are." More details...

11:10
TU-154 CRASH: PUBLIC PROSECUTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE BROUGHT AN ACTION FOR “TERRORISM”
Deputy Public Prosecutor General of Russia Sergei Fridinski brought an action for terrorism in connexion with Tu-154 aircraft’s crash over Black Sea. More details...

11:08
TUPOLEV 154: TERRORISM, MISSILE, OR SYSTEM FAILURE?
An aircraft carrying 77 passengers from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk has crashed into the Black Sea. President Putin and the FSB claim it was caused by a terrorist attack and the Pentagon claims it could have been a missile fired by the Ukranian army, which the Ukranians deny strongly. More details...

11:05
ETHIOPIA: 250,000 CHILDREN WITH HIV
More than a quarter of a million children in Ethiopia are carriers of the HIV virus, which causes AIDS. More details...

11:02
VENEZUELA: 13-MONTH-OLD BABY DIES OF DRUGS OVERDOSE
A 13-month-old baby has died of a cocaine overdose in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. More details...

10:35
SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY VLADIMIR RUSHAILO DISCUSSES IN SOCHI TU-154 CRASH
Upon arrival in Sochi, Russian Security Council Secretary Vladimir Rushailo held a meeting with the members of a governmental commission investigating causes of the Tu-154 crash over the Black Sea on the instructions of President Vladimir Putin. More details...

10:31
NEBOJSHA MALIC: REFLECTIONS ON REVOLUTION
Following the carnage of September 11, the Balkans became of secondary concern to the makers of U.S. foreign policy. American media seem content to ignore the Balkans for a while, save for noting the Empire's vehement denials of their Muslim allies' liaisons with Osama Bin Laden and other radical Islamic movements, and the pledge to continue its Balkans policy on the same path it was following prior to Black Tuesday. More details...

00:25
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21:31
PUTIN GREETS BLAIR'S ANTI-TERROR STATEMENT
President Vladimir Putin is enthusiastic about an anti-terror statement Prime Minister Tony Blair made at an extraordinary session of the British Parliament this morning, said the Russian President as he was opening a bilateral summit now underway in the Kremlin. More details...

21:30
RUSSIAN PLANE COULD BE SHOT DOWN ACCIDENTALLY DURING MILITARY EXERCISE
After ITAR-TASS informed (with reference to the world’s leading news agencies) that the plane Tu-154, which fell into the Black Sea was accidentally shot down during the missile exercise of the Ukrainian Air Forces, the Defense Ministry of Ukraine reacted to that More details...