23:00
INCIDENT IN WASHINGTON UNDERGROUND. CHEMICAL ATTACK?
3 stations of the Washington underground are now closed because of the effect caused by some chemical substance, which has not been identified yet More details...

21:30
ANOTHER WAY OUT: TO WITHDRAW UKRAINIAN TROOPS FROM THE CRIMEA
Spokesmen for the scientific and industrial association Almaz (Diamond) commented on the possibility for Ukrainian missile S-200 to shoot down the Russian passenger plane Tu-154. It was Almaz that developed this type of missiles More details...

20:44
READER D.I. WARWICK WRITES TO PRAVDA.RU REGARDING ISRAEL PRESIDENT SHARON'S REMARKS COMPARING THE CURRENT CRISIS WITH WWII
President Sharon’s allusion to the appeasement of Hitler reflects unbelievably poor judgment and bad taste. Poor judgment because, having invoked the specter, the comparison that comes most readily to mind is between Israel’s demand for world acquiescence in its policy of territorial conquest, expulsion, and settlement in Jerusalem and the West Bank and similar German demands with respect to Central Europe in the 1930’s. More details...

20:07
UKRAINIAN ANTI-GLOBALISTS BURN AMERICAN FLAG
A group of young people who call themselves “The Front of Ukrainian Anti-globalists” publicly burnt the American flag in front of the American embassy in Kiev. This was done as an action of protest against the military operation in Afghanistan More details...

19:36
RUSSIA PRESSES UKRAINE. IT IS TIME TO ADMIT THE GUILT OF TU-154 CRASH
PRAVDA.Ru has already reported today (with reference to the sources in the commission for investigation of the Tu-154 plane crash) that the damage of the plane looked like it was caused by the shrapnel contained in Ukraine’s S-200 missiles More details...

19:20
BOB DJURDJEVIC: PROFITING FROM THE GAME OF NATION BUILDING
How many times have you heard the likes of Bill Clinton, George Bush and other Washington insiders justify the presence of our troops or non-governmental organizations in over 100 countries around the world on the basis that they want to export to these nations American values, such as freedom and democracy? This writer has lost count, but "ad nauseam" could be an adequate answer More details...

18:17
ANDREI KRUSHINSKY: CHINA AGAINST TERRORISM IN ANY POSSIBLE FORM
The world’s leading mass media perceived yesterday’s phone conversation between Jiang Zemin and George Bush as Beijing’s support towards the American “anti-terrorist operation.” More details...

17:43
THE NEW WAR BETWEEN GEORGIA AND ABKHAZIA REPUBLICS HAS STARTED
Events in the unrecognized republic of Abkhazia are developing very fast. Guerilla movements, raids, skirmishes: everything has sudently turned a real war More details...

15:30
TU-154 SHOT DOWN WITH S-200 ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILE BELONGING TO UKRAINIAN AIR DEFENCES
This is the unofficial position of Russian experts from the commission investigating the air crash over Black Sea. The so-called bullet holes discovered on aircraft fuselage’s fragments really bear a strong resemblance of grape-shot filling the S-200 missiles. An anti-aircraft missile of this type blows up near to its target, hitting it with the grape-shot. More details...

14:30
ARTUR DAN: AUTUMN PLAYS OF ENERGY COMPLEX CHIEFS AND OLIGARCHS
The war of prices launched by owners of fuel and energy complex draws rapt attention of the Legislative Assembly’s deputies of Irkutsk region. For the time being, the region administration does not make any noticeable steps. And it is not strange: oligarchs support Govorin at the election and in this way make him not hinder them to increase incomes. More details...

13:00
SASCHA MATUSZAK: AFGHANISTAN AND CHINESE POWER CHINA'S CHOICES IN AFGHANISTAN
Not many countries are developing as swiftly as China. After 50 years of foolishness, despair and acute poverty, the 1980s and '90s came as a thunderbolt for most Chinese. As a result, the development is most uneven, with the latest Benz honking furiously at peasant-pulled vegetable-laden go-carts in the middle of a somewhat-paved garbage-strewn thoroughfare. More details...

13:00
UNITED STATES INTENDS TO CARRY OUT GROUND OPERATIONS FROM TAJIK BASES
This piece of news was transmitted today by CNN, referring to an informed source in Pentagon. According to the TV company, the official Dushanbe gave the US official permission to carry out military operation from Tajik territory. More details...

12:37
HERNAN ETCHALECO: ARGENTINA BACKS US RETALIATION
Yesterday, President Fernando de la Rua told US President George W. Bush that he supported the decision to attack Afghanistan in retaliation for the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. De la Rua also repeated Argentina’s commitment to offer “humanitarian aid," Communications Under Secretary Juan Pablo Baylac said. More details...

12:00
JUSTIN RAIMONDO: WARTIME MADNESS A WORLD GONE BONKERS
They're telling us everything's changed since 9/11, it's a new era, and I'm afraid they're right: it's the Age of the Nutballs, where the bizarre reigns supreme. Citing "a senior foreign official," the New York Times reports that, the day before 9/11, Osama bin Laden called his mother. This information, we are told, comes from interrogating members of the bin Laden familia, although we should perhaps leave open other possibilities: there are credible reports that bin Laden's satellite phone conversations had been intercepted by Western intelligence agencies in the past. More details...

11:30
TALIBAN ARE NOT USING THEIR MAIN WEAPON. ARE THEY PREPARING A SURPRISE?
The Taliban have not used their main weapon yet, Katar Al-Jazeera TV station reported, the only station that has its correspondents in Afghanistan. More details...

11:03
ANTHRAX UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
Any retaliation by Osama Bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda organization outside the sphere of conflict in Afghanistan must necessarily be with unconventional weapons. Anthrax, along with smallpox and botulism, is a possibility. More details...

11:02
AFGHANISTAN ATTACKED, JIHAD UNDER WAY
The Taliban reaction to the US/UK alliance, which has counted on the important support of the Russian Federation, was defiant. “Fight to the last breath” was the order of the day. More details...

10:30
U.S. WARN THAT MILITARY ACTION AGAINST TERRORISM MAY SPREAD OUTSIDE AFGHANISTAN
The USA has informed the United Nations Security Council that military action against the terrorist network Al-Qaeda may spread outside Afghanistan. A letter addressing the Security Council on behalf of US permanent representative to the UN John Negroponte reads, in part, "The US Armed Forces have launched an action to prevent and curb any further attacks on the United States in accordance with the universal inalienable right to individual and collective defence." More details...

10:25
USA DELIVERED STRIKES AT TARGETS NEAR FOUR AFGHAN CITIES
On Monday, the US delivered strikes at targets near four Afghan cities from northern Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to CNN. More details...

23:13
USA ANNOUNCES PROGRESS IN DESTRUCTION OF TALEBAN AIR DEFENSE
On Monday Donald Rumsfeld, head of the Pentagon, stated that in the course of the first wave of air strikes against Afghanistan last Sunday certain progress was achieved in elimination of Taleban air defense. More details...

21:23
ANDREY LUBENSKY: AMERICA WAGES WAR, UKRAINIANS MAY GO TO SLEEP
The beginning of the military operation in Afghanistan seems to have taken the Ukrainian politicians aback. There has been no official comments made yet More details...

20:54
WARFARE IN AFGHANISTAN MAY SEND OIL PRICES UP, EXPERTS SAY
The current military campaign in Afghanistan may raise the world oil prices to $25-27 per barrel, up from today's $21-22, Yevgeny Samoilov, CEO of Russia's Petroleum Exporters Union, said in a RIA Novosti interview Monday. More details...

20:21
OLEG SHENIN: USSR WAS RIGHT TO HAVE ITS TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN
“The expected strike” on Afghanistan caused wild reactions from different politicians. Here is what Oleg Shenin, a member of the former Soviet Communist Party, had to say on the score to a PRAVDA.Ru correspondent (Shenin used to work in Kabul in the beginning of the 80s as a councilor) More details...

20:04
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS REASON FOR CRASH OF HELICOPTER CARRYING UN MISSION IN GEORGIA WAS POLICY OF APPEASEMENT AND TOLERANCE PURSUED BY GEORGIAN AUTHORITIES TOWARDS TERRORISTS
Russia's Foreign Ministry has said that the reason for the crash of a helicopter that carried a UN mission in Georgia was the policy of appeasement and tolerance pursued by Georgian authorities towards terrorists. More details...

19:47
NORTHERN ALLIANCE PREPARES AN OFFENSIVE ALONG THE LINE TAKHAR-KABUL
The Northern Alliance gets ready for the offensive on Kabul advancing from Takhar. More details...

19:40
JARED TAYLOR:TEACHING MORE MILLIONS TO HATE US
ON September 11, President George W. Bush explained to us on national television that "America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world." Two days later, he spoke of terrorists who "hate our values" and "hate what America stands for." The next day, at the National Cathedral, he said, "They have attacked America, because we are freedom's home and defender." If that were indeed what motivated the men who flew airplanes into the Pentagon and World Trade Center, there would be reason for the huge military operation President Bush now tells us we need in order to "whip terrorism." More details...

19:10
USA TO LEAVE AFGHANISTAN IN 2-3 WEEKS
America has started the war against Afghanistan. The “powerful, destructive” missile and bomb strike eliminated over 30 targets in the country. Donald Rumsfeld – the head of the Pentagon – said the first part of the operation was “very successful.” More details...

18:32
SIBERIAN CITIZEN SAVED 70 PEOPLE DURING WTC ATTACK AND GOT POST MORTEM MEDAL “FOR SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION IN DEVELOPMENT OF KUZBASS” IN RETURN
Former Siberian citizen Yevgeny Knyazev, who saved 70 people from the fire in the World Trade Center, was given the highest award of the Kemerovo region post mortem More details...

18:13
ANATOLI BARANOV: AMERICA STARTED WARFARE. RUSSIA HAS ALREADY LOST
The whole world has been waiting for this news for several weeks already, but anyway it has became a sensation. The U.S.A. and Great Britain started bombing Afghanistan. After the opinion polls in America showed the expectations of the war gained 6% within the recent week, the act of retribution became inevitable More details...

15:40
TALIBAN DECLARES WAR ON UZBEKISTAN
The Taliban’s consulate to Pakistan, mullah Najibulla officially announced in Peshavar that the Taliban will declare war on Uzbekistan. According to him, military actions will be deployed on the border. The consulate complained about the Taliban not being able to use their air force against Uzbekistan at the moment. More details...