19:28
TURKISH NATIONAL ATTACKED BY DUTCH SOLDIERS
Thirty-one-year-old Mustafa Chitak was deliberately run over by a vehicle driven by the Dutch soldiers. He was seriously injured. There were two people in the car More details...

18:50
ARMED TERRORIST DETAINED IN VLADIKAVKAZ
The gunman who captured the building of the Vladikavkaz children's clinic Tuesday has been detained. The press service of the Emergencies Ministry said the criminal "was neutralized" at 17.40 Moscow time More details...

15:46
ADMIRAL KASATONOV SAYS KURSK'S WRECK MIGHT HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY HUMAN FACTOR
The "human factor" might be a cause of the Kursk's wreck, said admiral Igor Kasatonov, the former Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Navy. The admiral stressed that owing to this all current documents on combat training in the navy should be revised. More details...

11:45
SIX CRUISE MISSILE REMOVED FROM KURSK
Head of the Northern Fleet press service Vladimir Navrotsky announced today that 6 Granit cruise missiles had been recovered from the Kursk nuclear submarine over the past 24 hours. According to him, work to recover the remainder - the vessel's main weapons - is continuing. More details...

11:15
TWO MORE BODIES RETRIEVED FROM KURSK SUBMARINE
Last night investigation groups retrieved the bodies of two sailors, who died during the tragedy in August 2000 in the Barents Sea, from the compartments of the Kursk submarine, reported head of the press service of the Russian Northern Fleet Vladimir Navrotsky. A total of 47 bodies have been retrieved since the operation in the floating dock near Murmansk began. More details...

15:36
PETTY OFFICER KILLED IN KURSK BURIED IN BASHKIRIA
Petty Officer Fanis Ishmuratov, who died on the Kursk submarine, has been buried in his homeland of Bashkiria, in the area not far from the Urals. More details...

14:32
TWO CRUISE MISSILES EXTRACTED FROM KURSK
Two of the 22 cruise missiles installed in the Kursk submarine, were extracted from the sub on Monday, the Northern Fleet press service was quoted as saying. The unloaded missiles were in the port silos of the submarine. According to the Staff, the operation is being carried out in normal mode. More details...

12:55
BULGARIAN TANKER WHICH SURVIVED FIRE IS READY FOR VOYAGE
The Bulgarian tanker Khan Asparuh which caught fire last Saturday is lying out at Novorossiysk port and is preparing to put to sea. More details...

12:40
FORTY-FIVE CORPSES OF KURSK SUBMARINE’S SAILORS RETRIEVED. FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE CHARACTER OF DESTRUCTION SHOWN
Forty-five corpses of Kursk submarine’s sailors killed August 12, 2000, in the Barents Sea have been retrieved from the submarine at the floating dock of the Roslyakovo settlement, Murmansk region. This was reported on Monday by spokesman for the Northern Fleet of Russia, Vladimir Navrotski. According to him, 18 bodies were identified. More details...

12:18
TV JOURNALISTS INJURED IN RALLY ACCIDENT
A camera crew from the state broadcasting company "Murman" was injured on Sunday while filming a rally stage in the town of Kola (the Murmansk region). More details...

10:24
FORTY-FIVE CORPSES RETRIEVED, EIGHTEEN IDENTIFIED
Forty-five corpses of sailors who died on August 12, 2000, in the Barents Sea have been retrieved from the Kursk submarine in the floating dock near the Roslyakovo settlement, Murmansk region, head of the Russian Northern Fleet press service Vladimir Navrotsky reported on Monday. Eighteen corpses have been identified. 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.

14:51
BULGARIA'S OFFICIALS TO ARRIVE AT SCENE OF ACCIDENT WITH KHAN ASPARUKH TANKER IN NOVOROSSIISK
Bulgarian maritime administration officials and insurers are to come Sunday to Novorossiisk, a Russian port on the Black Sea coast, the scene of accident with the Khan Asparukh tanker. More details...

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...

14:34
RUSSIAN RESCUERS RESUME WORKS IN BULGARIAN TANKER
The emergency relief commission of the Novorossiisk port on the Black Sea resumed works on board the Khan Asparukh this morning after a suspension which started at 2:00 a.m. More details...

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...