18:20
RUMSFELD: NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE NOT RULED OUT
In an interview with CNN, the US Defence Secretary declared “I do not rule out anything”, when asked about deployment of nuclear weapons in Afghanistan. More details...

18:16
CONDOLEEZA RICE: BOMBING TO CONTINUE INTO RAMADAN
The United States National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice confirmed on November 1st that there will be no pause in the air raids on Afghanistan during Ramadan, which starts on November 17th. More details...

18:09
PERFECT PLANNING PREVENTS POOR PERFORMANCE
In America the majority (70%) of fast food purchases are impulse buys. Few people go out specifically to buy hamburger and the like. This fact points to the importance of restaurant site location. Just as magazines and sweets are strategically placed at the checkout counter in the supermarket, fast food joints are located at a particular place by design and not by accident More details...

17:57
ALEXANDER GOROBETS: ELECTION INFATUATION IN UKRAINE
Nine months of the current year in Ukraine were devoted to the struggle between the parliament and the president for the new law about the parliamentary elections in this millennium. President Leonid Kuchma has vetoed the new law five times. There is even something mystical in the whole thing More details...

16:44
ANATOLY BARANOV: BUREAUCRACY SYSTEM OFTEN KILLS ITS OWN OFFICIALS
A murder is always a murder and the death of the deputy prefect of the western administrative district of Moscow, Sergey Balashov can not be a subject for public discussions. It is not allowed to say anything bad about the dead people, or simply do not say anything otherwise More details...

16:35
BIN LADEN: JIHAD AGAINST CRUSADE
Osama Bin Laden has called on the Pakistani Moslems to rise up in a Jihad against the Christian Crusade, according to Qatar TV station Al Jazeera. More details...

16:30
KOSOVO - CHAOS
The Albanian Mafia continues to cause chaos on the province’s borders with Yugoslavia. Overt smuggling takes place under the gaze of Kfor troops. More details...

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...

15:01
THE CONFLICT IN NEW YORK: POLICE AND FIREMEN FIGHT ON THE WTC RUBBLE
A very bad situation is currently being formed in New York. The firemen fought with the policemen right on the rubble of the World Trade Centre. The reason for the fight was mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s decision to cut the number of the people working on the debris of the WTC, - mainly owing to the reduction of the firemen staff working there More details...

14:02
THE REASON OF THE KURSK CRASH DETERMINED. SENSATION DID NOT WORK OUT
Vladimir Ustimov – Russia’s Prosecutor General stated today that the reason of the Kursk submarine crash has been determined. It is clear from the prosecutor’s words that the investigation is again giving non-committal statements to the public, which was the case a year ago More details...

13:01
PRESIDENT PUTIN COMMENTS ON THE RACIST RAMPAGE IN MOSCOW
The meeting between President Putin and Minister for Justice Yury Chaika took place yesterday in the Kremlin. At the beginning of the discussion. the Russian president touched upon the recent events in Moscow that took place not far from Tsaritsyno underground station More details...

12:45
BILL WHITE ANTI-GLOBALIST RESISTANCE BEYOND LEFT AND RIGHT: AN EMERGING TREND THAT IS DEFINING A NEW PARADIGM IN REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE
“If I told you I thought the world was controlled by a handful of capitalists and corporate bosses, you would say I was a left-winger,” an anarchist black blocker told PRAVDA.Ru at a recent demonstration against the Afghanistan War. “But if I told you who I though the capitalists and corporate bosses were, you’d say I was far right,” the bandana-clad youth added with a wink. More details...

10:58
CNN CHIEF ORDERS 'BALANCE' IN WAR NEWS. REPORTERS ARE TOLD TO REMIND VIEWERS WHY U.S. IS BOMBING
The chairman of CNN has ordered his staff to balance images of civilian devastation in Afghan cities with reminders that the Taliban harbors murderous terrorists, saying it "seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan." More details...

21:36
COLLATERAL DAMAGE VII – AC-130S BLAST CIVILIANS IN KANDAHAR
Eye witnesses inform western journalists about AC-130 Spectre aircraft deliberately strafing civilian targets in Kandahar. More details...

21:00
ANDREY LUBENKSY: LAND CODE VOTING RESULTS IN UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT WERE FALSIFIED?
The commotion pertaining to the Land code, passed by the Ukrainian parliament is still going on. Some people say the bolsheviks’ motto “Land – to the peasants!” has been implemented, others call this news “the land counter-revolution” and warn that the best land in the world will soon find themselves in oligarchs and bandits’ hands More details...

20:44
US LOSSES IN AFGHANISTAN: FROM 70 TO 100 PEOPLE
According to Western news agencies, the Qatar television network al-Jazeera, which has lately become almost the only source of information about Afghan developments, aired today an interview with Mr. Moulvi Rahmatallah Kakazada, the Taliban’s consul to Karachi. More details...

19:50
CNN SAYS FOCUS ON CIVILIAN CASUALTIES WOULD BE "PERVERSE"
According to the Washington Post (10/31/01), CNN Chair Walter Isaacson "has ordered his staff to balance images of civilian devastation in Afghan cities with reminders that the Taliban harbors murderous terrorists, saying it 'seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan.'" More details...

19:15
PRAVDA.RU APPRECIATES CNN PRESS OFFICE’S WATCHFULNESS AND APOLOGIZES TO ITS READERS
CNN refutes the allegations that can be found in the article by Irina Malenko of October 26th, 2001 titled “ASSOCIATION OF JOURNALISTS OF PALESTINE BLAMES CNN.” More details...

18:43
RUSSIA AND WTO: ONLY THE STRONGEST WILL SURVIVE
The debates over Russia’s joining the World Trade Organization remain unabated. The near the joining date is coming, the more heated the debates become. The question “to join or not to join” became no longer relevant after President Vladimir Putin’s speech made at the guest session of the Davos economic forum held recently here in Moscow. More details...

18:25
DMITRY LITVINOVICH: THE COLOMBIAN DEATH SQUADS
The civil war in Colombia has been going on for over 30 years. Thousands of people died during the contradiction between the rebels and rightist armed groups. The Colombian army, by the way, has been actively supporting the latter More details...

16:38
THE KURSK SUBMARINE EXAMINED FROM WITHIN
The chairman of the governmental commission for investigating the reasons of the Kursk submarine crash, vice premier of the Russian government Ilya Klebanov did not exclude that the final reasons of the tragedy would be determined in two months More details...

16:08
ANOTHER POGROM IN MOSCOW PASSES OFF UNNOTICED
Yesterday, the mass media reported on a new pogrom in Moscow, this time in Moscow’s northwest, in the Tushino district. Local residents living on the Bolshaya Naberezhnaya Street relentlessly telephoned the police telling of a mass battle going on, in which about 100 people were taking part. More details...

16:02
BIN LADEN MET CIA IN AMERICAN HOSPITAL
Osama Bin Laden met a CIA agent in an American hospital in Dubai last July, according to the French daily Le Figaro. More details...

15:22
DMIRY LITVINOVICH: BUSINESS IN UKRAINE. OR VARYAG’S LAST TRIP
How pitiful it is to take leave of the USSR’s former grandeur. The country where we were born has disappeared from geographical maps, and all we have now is to complain about unwise politicians. More details...

15:20
SERGEY BORISOV: AMERICAN PROFESSORS SCOLD THE USA
A lot of American people fear that the US will lose a part of its democratic liberties during the struggle with terrorism. Someone is afraid lest the well-known freedom of speech should suffer, there are already certain trends of that More details...

13:50
THERE IS SOMETHING AMISS IN RUSSIAN CAPITAL. WITH BUILDING
Moscow confidently presses St Petersburg from the not very flattering place of Russian criminal capital. This week was marked with series of bloody crimes in the city: from the pogrom Tsaritshino market on October 30, to today’s murder of deputy prefect of Northwest circuit. More details...

12:30
GOLOVLEV’S CASE: COURT WILL CLEAR UP THE SITUATION
“Oops!” as our friends over the ocean say. State Duma deputy from Union of Right Forces faction, deprived of deputy immunity, brings an action against the State Duma. More details...

12:00
JOSEPH SOBRAN: PATRIOTISM OR NATIONALISM?
This is a season of patriotism, but also of something that is easily mistaken for patriotism; namely, nationalism. The difference is vital. G.K. Chesterton once observed that Rudyard Kipling, the great poet of British imperialism, suffered from a "lack of patriotism." More details...

11:20
ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN YAKUTIA: OUR LAST AND DECISIVE BATTLE. DO TODAY’S AUTHORITIES PREPARE THE USSR’S FATE FOR RUSSIA?
Pre-election process in Yakutia is at its height. Everything is involved: local election commission, Central Election Commission, Supreme Court of Yakutia, Russian Public Prosecutor General’s Office. Now it is turn of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. Though, thing are right where they started. More details...

10:00
JUSTIN RAIMONDO: ATTACK OF THE MCCAINIACS MAD BOMBER MCCAIN: WILL HE EVER SHUT UP?
War is hell – and, thanks to Senator John McCain, it has just gotten a little more hellish. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, this angry embittered man has launched an effort to undermine the war effort, one that will no doubt be far more effective than the Lilliputian efforts of peaceniks. "War," he intones, "is a miserable business." Let us "shed a tear," he opines, "and then get on with the business of killing our enemies as quickly as we can, and as ruthlessly as we must." More details...