17:35
NORTHERN FLEET AIRCRAFT WILL TAKE BODIES OF IDENTIFIED SUBMARINERS TO THEIR BIRTH PLACES
Northern Fleet Commander Vyacheslav Popov has told journalists that on Saturday two specially assigned Northern Fleet aircraft will bring the bodies of 7 identified Kursk crewmen to their relations. More details...

17:12
SPECIALISTS TRYING TO SEAL OFF NUCLEAR REACTOR OF KURSK SUB
Water is being pumped out of the 6th reactor compartment of the Kursk nuclear sub. More details...

16:24
7 OUT OF 17 BODIES EXTRACTED FROM KURSK WERE IDENTIFIED
Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Union of Communist Parties, SKP, and head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, or KPRF, told journalists in the interval of the Moscow congress that the Congress of communist parties is aiming to work out a strategy of the communist party for the nearest future. More details...

16:09
7-MINUTE FILM MADE BY INVESTIGATORS WORKING ABOARD RAISED KURSK SUBMARINE TO BE AIRED ON TV
RF Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov has said the group of investigators that for the past two days has been working aboard the raised Kursk nuclear submarine prepared a 7-minute film depicting the sub's current condition. More details...

15:51
EXAMINATION CONFIRMS KURSK CREW DIED OF CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING
Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov reported to journalists, Saturday, the examination of the nuclear submarine Kursk carried out by a group of experts proved that all 17 dead seamen found in the sub had died of carbon monoxide poisoning. More details...

15:45
SAILORS OF KURSK SUBMARINE DIED OF ASPHYXIA
In a press-conference, Public Prosecutor General of Russia, Vladimir Ustinov has told about operation of retrieving bodies of Kursk submarine’s sailors, as well as about some results of the investigation the criminalists carry out on the submarine’s board. More details...

13:03
ANOTHER SUPPORT VESSEL JOINED EXTINGUISHING OF FIRE ON BULGARIAN TANKER
The Sirius support vessel has approached the Bulgarian Khan Asparukh tanker in distress. According to the press service of the North Caucasian Regional Department of the Russian Federal Frontier Service, the vessel has delivered the freon needed for the cooling of tanker's deck erections on fire. More details...

12:53
DECK ERECTION OF KHAN ASPARUKH ON FIRE
Deck erection of the Bulgarian Khan Asparukh tanker located in the vicinity of the Russian port of Novorossisk, is on fire, the press service of the North Caucasian Regional Department of the Russian Federal frontier Service reported. The fire is being extinguished. More details...

20:35
TROOP CONVOY BOMBERS NABBED IN CHECHNYA
The police in Chechnya's Gudermes District have unraveled the conspiracy that bombed a troop column on October 12, killing 2 servicemen and heavily injuring 4 More details...

20:33
RUSSIAN BORDER OFFICIALS DETAIN FOUR CHINESE CITIZENS ON ILLEGAL FISHING CHARGES
Four Chinese citizens have been detained at the Far Eastern section of the Russian border under supervision of the Far Eastern Department of the Russian Border Service More details...

20:32
THREE TERRORISTS CONFESS TO MURDERING SEVERAL CHECHEN CIVILIANS
Investigators have proved the involvement of three Chechen terrorists in five murders of Grozny's Zavodskoi district residents committed early in the year More details...

16:50
HUMAN CATASTROPHE IN VIETNAM
Floods, followed by Dengue fever, have wreaked havoc in Vietnam, causing hundreds of deaths. More details...

16:29
WORKS INSIDE KURSK SUBMARINE TO BE CONTINUED. EIGHT CORPS OF SUBMARINE SAILORS RETRIEVED
The team of forensic medical experts and investigators of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office working inside Kursk submarine have already retrieved eight bodies of killed sailors. At the moment, criminalists are intending to retrieve two more bodies found in the submarine’s 9th compartment. More details...

12:55
SIX CORPSES OF KURSK SAILORS RETRIEVED
Six corpses of the Kursk crewmen have been already retrieved from the 9th compartment of the submarine, Leonid Troshin, the Chief of the Information and Public Relations Department of the Prosecutor General's Office, reported on Friday. More details...

11:55
ONE MORE BODY FOUND IN 9TH COMPARTMENT
The corpse of another dead sailor was extracted last night from the ninth compartment of the Kursk nuclear submarine. More details...

10:01
WORKS IN REACTOR TO COMMENCE ON FRIDAY
Technological hatch of the sixth reactor compartment of the Kursk nuclear submarine will be opened on Friday, Vladimir Kuroyedov, the Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief, was quoted as saying. More details...

20:56
PROBE OPENED INTO BUS CRASH ON KARACHAYEVO-CHERKESSIA MOUNTAIN ROAD
The Prosecutor's Office of Karachayevo-Cherkessia, an autonomous region in the Russian North Caucasus, has opened a judicial enquiry into the bus crash today on the mountain road from Karachayevsk to Kislovodsk, in which 4 died and 16 were hospitalized with injuries and concussions More details...

20:22
ANDREY LUBENSKY: UKRAINIAN MAIL TAKES SECURITY MEASURES
In connection with the large amount of information received from the United States of America about the anthrax mail incidents, the Ukrainian mail company Ukrpochta created a schedule of actions for extreme situations More details...

19:43
HAND GRENADE DISCOVERED NEAR ANTIORGANISED CRIME BOARD BUILDING TAKEN OUT OF MOSCOW
A hand grenade, discovered on Thursday near the building of the Central Regional Board for Combating Organised Crime /the CRUBOP/ in Moscow, was extracted and taken to safety More details...

19:40
ARMED CHECHEN ARRESTED IN TBILISI
A 30-year Chechnya-native Russian citizen Ruslan Baligov was arrested on Thursday in Tbilisi. The detainee had a Glock pistol and a clip with eleven rounds in it More details...

19:38
U.S. EMBASSY IN MOSCOW RECEIVES ENVELOPE WITH SUSPICIOUS WHITE POWDER
An envelope with suspicious white powder has been sent to the American embassy in Moscow More details...

19:31
4 DIE IN KARACHAYEVO-CHERKESSIYA BUS CRASH
According to latest information, four passengers have been killed in a bus crash near the mountain village Eltarkach. Two passengers died on spot, one halfway to the hospital, and one after hospitalization More details...

19:26
RUSSIAN PEACEKEEPER KILLED LAST NIGHT IN KOSOVO
Stanislav Ivanov, serving with the parachute troops, became the 11th Russian peacekeeper to be killed in Kosovo since Russian forces arrived there in the summer of 1999 More details...

18:50
TALIBAN HELD 7 FOREIGN REPORTERS THIS MONTH
Japanese national Daigen Yanagida has been arrested for illegal entry into the country by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban in what has been the seventh similar case this month More details...

18:32
HAND GRENADE FOUND NEXT TO HQ OF ANTI-ORGANISED CRIME SQUAD IN MOSCOW
A hand grenade was found on Thursday near the Central Regional headquarters of the RUBOP anti-organized crime police squad More details...

17:27
TERRORISTS MAKE TWO ATTEMPTS TO INFILTRATE RUSSIAN NUCLEAR STORAGE FACILITIES THIS YEAR
This year, terrorist groups made two attempts to infiltrate Russian Defence Ministry nuclear storage facilities, Colonel-General Igor Valynkin, the Chief one of the Russian Defence Ministry Main Departments, was quoted as saying More details...

15:12
RADIATION ANALYSIS OF 6TH COMPARTMENT PROVES TO BE NORMAL
A detailed spectrum analysis of air probes from the sixth reactor compartment of the Kursk nuclear submarine led experts to conclude that the radiation level inside the compartment was normal, Captain 1 st rank Igor Dygalo, Aide to the Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief, reported on Thursday. More details...

14:47
FLOATING DOCK WITH KURSK SUB RAISED IN ROSLYAKOVO
The floating dock with the Kursk nuclear submarine was raised completely on Thursday in the Roslyakovo village, Igor Dygalo, the Aide to the Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief and the Chief of the Navy Press Service, was quoted as saying. More details...

12:52
NEW ACCUSATION BROUGHT AGAINST RAILROAD MINISTER
A source in the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation approved information that a new accusation had been brought against Railroad Minister Nikolay Aksyonenko. More details...

13:52
NORTHERN FLEET EXPERTS PREPARE FOR RADIATION MONITORING OF KURSK
Experts of the Russian Northern Fleet are preparing for radiation monitoring of the sixth reactor compartment of the salvaged Kursk nuclear submarine. According to Igor Dygalo, the Aide to the Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief, raising the floating dock #50 was continued on Wednesday in the Roslyakovo village. More details...