15:50
TALIBAN CLAIM THEY DOWNED TWO AMERICAN HELICOPTERS
Al-Jazeera television network distributed the statement for the Ministry for Information of the Taliban movement. It was said in the statement, that the anti-missile defense forces of the Taliban downed tow American helicopters, carrying the special forces soldiers today More details...

15:05
HURRICANE HITS TALLINN, CAUSES EXTENSIVE DAMAGE
According to preliminary data, damage by a hurricane which hit Tallinn last night may total several millions kroons. Bus traffic was disrupted and several buildings were damaged in downtown Tallin and in its Lasnamae district, as was reported in the Tallinn City Hall. More details...

12:03
INFORMATION RETRIEVED FROM SALVAGED KURSK SUB TO REVEAL CAUSE OF WRECK
Ilya Klebanov, the Russian Vice-Premier and the head of the commission investigating the cause of the wreck of the Kursk nuclear submarine, believes that the new data obtained after salvaging the sub, will help to reveal the true cause of the wreck. More details...

11:55
THE BODIES OF 55 SUBMARINERS RECOVERED FROM KURSK NUCLEAR SUBMARINE
As of Friday, 55 bodies of submariners have been recovered from the Kursk submarine, 45 of which have been identified, the Northern Fleet's press service disclosed. More details...

11:19
INVESTIGATION INTO TU-154 CRASH COMPLETED: UKRAINIAN MISSILE DESTROYED THE AIRCRAFT
The investigatory experimentation of the crash of the Russian Tu-154 passenger aircraft operated by the Russian Sibir airlines, into the Black Sea, has proved that the aircraft was shot down by the S-200 anti-aircraft missile launched during the Ukrainian Air Defence exercise, which took place on the cape Opuk in the Crimea on October 4. More details...

21:14
THE SLAUGHTER IN TSARITSINO – THE PROVOCATION OF THE SPECIAL SERVICES?
There are new comments coming about the events, which took place October 30 in the area of Moscow’s Tsaritsino underground station. We would like to remind you in short of what actually happened. A group of young men, about 500 of them, made a slaughter on the market place close to the underground station More details...

19:46
NORTH OSSETIA ESTABLISHES TERRORIST-FLIGHT INVESTIGATION COMMISSION
In Vladikavkaz, capital of the North Caucasian Republic of North Ossetia-Alania within the Russian Federation, a commission has been set up to investigate into why the law-enforcements failed to detain the terrorist who seized a children's out-patient clinic on Tuesday. More details...

19:14
BLACK SEA TU-154 CRASH RESULTED FROM "TRAGIC COINCIDENCE OF MALFUNCTIONS"
The crash of the Russian TU-154 airliner over the Black Sea on October 4 resulted from "a tragic coincidence of causes of technological nature," according to a tentative conclusion reached by Russian and Ukrainian experts after a test on the Cape Opuk testing ground, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Vladimir Rushailo cited in remarks to the press. More details...

17:03
HOW TO EARN TWO MILLION
There is a very simple way to earn 2 million: to seize a children’s hospital, take the personnel and visitors hostages, require ransom, receive it, and then leave. Does it seem impossible? Anything is possible in Russia. Especially when there is a large-scale conspiracy in which law-enforcement officers participate More details...

15:52
HURRICANE IN LATVIA KILLS ONE RIGA RESIDENT
A broken tree killed a man in Riga and two houses were destroyed in the seaport of Liepaja. In other parts of Latvia roofs of houses were torn away and trees and electricity pylons were blown down. This was the initial damage caused by the hurricane raging in Latvia. More details...

13:20
NO DOUBTS REMAIN THAT RUSSIAN T-154 AIRJET WAS HIT BY A MISSILE FIRED FROM ANTIAIRCRAFT SYSTEM OF UKRAINIAN AIR DEFENCE FORCES
Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council Yevgeny Marchuk has confirmed that today there is only one version of the T-154 liner crash - it was hit by a S-200 missile fired from an antiaircraft system during exercises of the Ukrainian air-defence forces. Yevgeny Marchuk said this on Thursday at Kirovskoye airport when meeting Russian Security Council Secretary Vladimir Rushailo. More details...

12:46
FIFTY-TWO CORPSES RETRIEVED FROM KURSK SUBMARINE
Fifty-two corpses have been retrieved from the Kursk nuclear submarine, Vladimir Navrotsky, the Chief of the Northern Fleet press service, was quoted as saying. More details...

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...