19:26
SPECIAL OPERATIONS AGAINST CHECHEN WARLORDS ON
Vladimir Moltenskoi, commander of the Joint Group of Federal Forces in the North Caucasus, has disproved media reports alleging that he had ordered to suspend a special operation against Chechen militant leaders. More details...

18:51
RUSSIA, GREAT BRITAIN STAND TOGETHER ON FUTURE AFGHAN GOVERNMENT
Russia and Afghanistan stand together on the future government of Afghanistan, said British foreign minister Jack Straw after meeting his Russian counterpart Igor Ivanov. More details...

18:46
BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY: AFGHAN PEOPLE SHOULD FORM NEW GOVERNMENT WITH UN ASSISTANCE
The new Afghan government should be formed by the people of Afghanistan with the help of the UN and international community, British foreign secretary Jack Straw told Russian politicians Wednesday. More details...

18:35
RUSSIAN BORDER-GUARDS PREVENT ARMED SMUGGLERS FROM CROSSING TAJIK BORDER
Russian border-guards have prevented armed smugglers from crossing the Tajik-Afghan border. According to the Russian border guards' press service, the incident took place on Wednesday at a stretch of the border guarded by the Moskovsky detachment. More details...

17:43
LARGE TERRORIST CACHE DESTROYED IN CHECHNYA
Sub-units of the federal forces destroyed a large terrorist cache in Argun (Chechnya). More details...

17:35
RUSSIAN ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF RULES OUT NEW PEACE WITH CHECHEN REBELS
Anatoly Kvashnin, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, has ruled out the possibility of the Russian troops pulling out of Chechnya after talks with Chechen rebels, as was the case in 1996 after the truce signed in Khasavyurt, Daghestan. More details...

17:06
RUSSIAN ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF CONFIRMS GELAYEV BAND DESTROYED
Anatoly Kvashnin, Chief of General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, has confirmed that the Chechen guerrilla band led by Gelayev has been defeated after penetrating with Georgian militants into the self-proclaimed Georgian republic of Abkhazia earlier this month. More details...

16:43
CHECHEN GOVERNMENT TO COOPERATE WITH NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS IN HUMANITARIAN PROGRAMS
An agreement on mutual understanding and cooperation in the field of humanitarian programs was signed between the Chechen government and non-government humanitarian organizations in Grozny on Wednesday. More details...

14:21
COURT PROCEEDINGS HAVE BEEN INSTITUTED AGAINST 40 SERVICEMEN SINCE AUGUST 2001 FOR VIOLATION OF LAW IN CHECHNYA
Court proceedings have been instituted against 40 servicemen since August 2001 for violation of law in Chechnya, first deputy prosecutor general of Russia Yuri Biryukov said on Wednesday during the parliamentary hearings in the State Duma. More details...

14:10
THREE MILITANTS KILLED AND FOUR SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN SOUTHERN CHECHNYA
A special operation in the Nozhai-Urt district of Chechnya has resulted in the death of three militants and the arrest of four persons suspected of involvement in military action. More details...

13:25
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN ABKHAZIA POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 2, 2002
The parliamentary elections in Abkhazia, a self-proclaimed republic on Georgian territory, will not be held on November 24th, 2001, as scheduled, but have been postponed until March 2nd, 2002. A RIA Novosti correspondent reports that President of Abkhazia Vladislav Ardzinba has made this decision. More details...

13:15
CRIMINAL CASE ON ASSASSINATION OF VICE-CHAIRMAN OF DAGHESTAN'S PARLIAMENT LAUNCHED
A criminal case has been launched on the fact of the murder of Vice-Chairman of the People's Assembly (parliament) of Daghestan (a North-Caucasian republic neighbouring on Chechnya) Arsen Kammayev, the RIA Novosti correspondent reports. More details...

11:29
LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER RAFIQ AL-HARIRI ABOUT RUSSIAN-LEBANESE RELATIONS
Traditional friendly relations have linked Russia and Lebanon for two centuries already, Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri told a RIA Novosti correspondent before leaving for a working visit to Moscow. He recalled that the first Russian consulate opened in Beirut in 1839. More details...

09:23
VICE-SPEAKER OF REPUBLIC'S PARLIAMENT AND HEAD OF BANK SHOT DEAD BY UNKNOWN PEOPLE IN DAGHESTAN
Vice-chairman of the People's Assembly of the republic Arsen Kammayev and head of Promstroibank Abdulkhalik Musayev have been murdered in Daghestan, a North-Caucasian republic neighbouring on Chechnya, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the Interior Ministry of Daghestan on Wednesday. More details...

18:05
ALBANIANS CONTINUE ARMED PROVOCATIONS IN MACEDONIA
Up to armed provocations all nights through, Albanian rebels opened fire last night in Tetotvo, dozens of villages outside the city and in the vicinity of the town of Kumanovo More details...

15:55
OBSERVATION OF CHECHEN CITIZENS' RIGHTS DISCUSSED IN RUSSIAN GENERAL PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE
Yuri Biryukov, the first deputy of the General Prosecutor and Mikhail Kislitsin, the Chief Military Prosecutor met Alvaro Gil-Robles, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe in the Russian General Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday. They discussed the observation of Chechen citizens' rights, the information and public relations department of the General Prosecutor's Office said. More details...

14:45
REMNANTS OF GELAYEV'S GANG DESTROYED
The remains of the gang led by Ruslan Gelayev, a notorious Chechen warlord, have been destroyed during a special operation conducted by the Defence Ministry of the self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia. More details...

14:03
16 SEPARATISTS KILLED IN CHECHNYA YESTERDAY
The Chechen law enforcement officers killed 16 separatists and detained 8 separatists yesterday, the press centre of the Russian Interior Ministry in Khankala said. More details...

10:20
REMAINDER OF RUSLAN GELAYEV'S GANG OF CHECHEN TERRORISTS COMPLETELY DESTROYED IN ABKHAZIA
The remainder of the gang of notorious Chechen terrorist Ruslan Gelayev has been completely destroyed in Abkhazia, First Deputy Minister of Defence of the self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia Guivi Agrba said by telephone on Monday. More details...

21:52
AMERICAN AVIATION SERIOUSLY PRESSED BIN LADEN
Prime suspect is experiencing difficulties with training the gunmen. This is presented as considerable success in the anti-terrorist operation in Afghanistan More details...

21:27
USA AGAINST COLUMBIAN CEASEFIRE?
Spokesperson for Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue confirms that USA is against Bogota’s peace deal with FARC. More details...

21:20
GELAYEV GANG DESTROYED COMPLETELY IN ABKHAZIA
A paramilitary grouping led by Chechen warlord Ruslan Gelayev has been destroyed completely in Abkhazia, a breakaway autonomy in Georgia, the head of the Abkhaz security service, Raul Khadzhimba, said by telephone More details...

20:55
DISARMAMENT CONDITIONS TO BE TALKED OVER WITH MASKHADOV
To be discussed at meetings with Maskhadov are terms of disarmament of militants and bringing them back to peaceful life, the Russian president's aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky said at a Grozny press conference Monday More details...

18:08
PAKISTAN IS CROSSING THE LINE. AFGHAN WAR IS SPREADING TO OTHER COUNTRIES
The situation in Pakistan is becoming very tense. Such development of the situation was being expected actually; the strange thing is that nothing like that had happened before More details...

16:43
ISLAMIC ISLAMISTS SEIZED AIRFIELD IN NORTHERN KASHMIR CONQUERED BY PAKISTAN
Students of Islamic schools seized an airfield in the vicinity of Gilgit, Northern Kashmir conquered by Pakistan, the Zahedan Radio reported More details...

15:50
FIRST DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER VYACHESLAV TRUBNIKOV: U.S. CHANGES ITS STANCE ON CHECHNYA
First Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Vyacheslav Trubnikov believes that Washington is changing its stance in relation to Chechnya. He spoke at a meeting with journalists in the capital of Portugal, where he arrived to participate in consultations of the co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group for Nagorny Karabakh. More details...

13:59
CHECHEN TERRORIST ACT PREVENTED
A terrorist act has been prevented at the railway bridge over the river Dzhalka in Chechnya. The chief press spokesman for the North Caucasus Interior Ministry Department for transport, Colonel Sergei Nazarov, stated. More details...

13:34
HEAD OF OSCE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY URGES ACTIVE SETTLEMENT OF NAGORNY KARABAKH CONFLICT
Settlement of the conflict in Nagorny Karabakh calls for more energetic actions, Adrian Severin, the president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, told journalists on Sunday. More details...

13:22
11 RUSSIAN SOLDIERS INJURED BY CHECHEN GUNMEN
11 soldiers of the Joint Group of Forces were injured by Chechen gunmen last Sunday, according to the Joint Group of Forces' headquarters. More details...

18:39
TWO ISRAELIS KILLED, TWENTY WOUNDED IN HADERA ACT OF TERRORISM
Two Israeli citizens have been killed and twenty wounded Sunday afternoon as two terrorists machine-gunned pedestrians from a jeep riding along the central street of Hadera in the north of Israel. A street patrol opened retaliation fire and the car lost control, running into a lamp pole. More details...