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...

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...

20:18
SHOOTING AND MURDER OVERTAKE MOSCOW STREETS
A triple murder in southwest Moscow has once again made the Russian capital a scene of a high-profile killing. According to the city's law enforcement officials, around 7 p.m. Moscow time, an identified perpetrator fired an automatic weapon at three people and killed them all on site. More details...

19:43
COSMONAUT FEELS MIR WAS MORE COSY THAN ISS
Living conditions were better aboard Russia's Mir orbital space station than they are on the International Space Station, said Viktor Afanasyev, captain of the Expedition Two crew, on Friday. He was speaking to reporters along with his fellow crewmen, Russian test pilot Konstantin Kozeyev and French woman cosmonaut Claudie Haignere, about his impression of work on the ISS. 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...

16:30
THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE COMMISSION ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE CAUSES OF THE TU-154 CRASH TO PASS INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT
The results of the technological commission of the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) will be submitted to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for an independent expert conclusion. 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...

15:23
THERE ARE ENOUGH LABORATORIES IN RUSSIA TO INVESTIGATE THE PROBLEMS CONNECTED WITH ANTHRAX
As many as 2,300 laboratories are functioning within the system of the Russian Health Ministry. Each of them is ready to take up the problem of anthrax, said Chief Sanitary Doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko to reporters. 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...

13:38
DEFENCE MINISTRY RULES OUT RUSSIAN ORIGIN OF ANTHRAX
The Russian defence ministry rules out the Russian origin of anthrax the spores of which have been discovered in the USA. Chief of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of the Russian defence ministry, lieutenant-general Viktor Kholstov told a press conference in Moscow that it is impossible. More details...

12:52
252 ENVELOPES WITH WHITE POWDER REGISTERED IN RUSSIA
A total of 252 envelopes with white powder have been registered in Russia this week but none of them contained anthrax agents. Chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko said that microbiological examination was being conducted in each such case. More details...

12:18
LAW-ENFORCERS LINK MURDER OF HIGH-RANKING MOSCOW OFFICIAL TO HIS PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
There is a version that the Friday murder in Moscow of deputy prefect of the Western Administrative District of Moscow Sergei Balashov can be connected with his professional activity. More details...

10:55
DEPUTY PREFECT OF WESTERN ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICT OF MOSCOW MURDERED
Sergei Balashov, Deputy Prefect of Moscow's western administrative district, was killed Friday morning in the capital of Russia, the main interior department of Moscow has reported. 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...

19:57
ALEXANDER GOROBETS: MILITARY GAMES TO SAVE UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT’S IMAGE
Cape of Opuk in the Crimea, which became known after the crash of the Russian Tu-154 passenger airliner, is now a place to gather a lot of military men today. This time there are both Russian and Ukrainian military men there. General Kuzmuk, the former Defense Minister of Ukraine, is absent More details...

19:53
NO ANTHRAX EPIDEMIC FOR MOSCOW, REASSURES HEADDOCTOR
There is no chance for an anthrax epidemic in Moscow, says Nikolai Filatov, chief city sanitary expert. More details...

18:05
THE STATE DUMA VOTED: TO WITHDRAW IMMUNITY FROM DEPUTY VLADIMIR GOLOVLEV
The Russian Federation State Duma (the parliament) voted to withdraw the deputy immunity from the Union of Rightist Forces faction member, deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee for budget and revenues, Vladimir Golovlev More details...

18:04
NEW IDEAS FROM FASHION DESIGNER VYACHESLAV ZAITSEV
On November 1, an exhibition called "Folk Traditions in Present-Day Fashion" opened at the All-Russian Exhibition Centre, arranged by the Culture Pavilion together with Vyacheslav Zaitsev's Moscow Fashion House. More details...

16:46
RUSSIAN FATHER CHRISTMAS ARRIVES IN MOSCOW IN NOVEMBER
Everyone likes merry and good-natured Russian Father Christmas. We can't imagine a New Year without him. The international forum "The Russian Father Christmas" is to keep the old tradition. The forum will be held in Moscow on November 12-18, the organizers told a news conference Thursday. More details...

15:51
SIGNS OF DISCONTENT IN US POPULATION
Although the Unites States’ administration continues to enjoy massive support, there are clear signs that preoccupation and discontent are beginning to unsettle the people of the USA. More details...

15:42
ANDREY LUBENSKY: TU-154 CRASH INVESTIGATORY EXPERIMENT TO TAKE PLACE TODAY
The investigatory experiment will take place in the Crimea on Thursday. The experiment will be held within the framework of the criminal case pertaining to the crash of the Russian Tu-154 passenger airliner, which fell into the Black Sea after being hit by a Ukrainian missile More details...

15:39
THE NINTH CRUISE MISSILE GRANIT HAS BEEN UNLOADED FROM THE KURSK SUBMARINE
The ninth cruise missile Granit has been unloaded from the Kursk submarine's missile launching silo, said the chief of the Northern Fleet's press service, Vladimir Navrotsky. More details...

15:13
NORTHERN FLEET PRESS SERVICE DENY REPORT THAT BODY OF KURSK SUBMARINE COMMANDER GENNADY LYACHIN DISCOVERED.
Allegations passed to some media companies regarding the discovery of Commander Gennady Lyachin in the body of the Kursk nuclear submarine are completely unfounded. This was disclosed by the chief of the Northern Fleets' press service, Vladimir Navrotski More details...

12:03
PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA: CONSIDERATION OF CITIZENS' COMPLAINTS IS A MOST IMPORTANT FUNCTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
One of the most important functions of the Constitutional Court is to consider the complaints of citizens, said Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday in the Marble Hall of the Kremlin during the session devoted to the 10th anniversary of the Constitutional Court. More details...

19:31
RUSSIA IS HOME TO CLOSE ON 150,000 AFGHANS
Living in Russia at the moment are about 150,000 Afghans, with 98 per cent of them being refugees. More details...

18:48
INVESTIGATION INTO JUNE 1995 TERRORIST ASSAULT ON BUDYONNOVSK COMPLETED
The North Caucasus department of the Russian prosecutor general's office has completed an investigation into the case of six bandits of the Basayev gang, who attacked Budyonnovsk /the Stavropol Territory, south of Russia/ on June 14, 1995. Deputy prosecutor general of the southern federal district Vladimir Rudyak said as much Wednesday. More details...

15:57
MORE THAN 2 MLN. CRIMES REVEALED BY PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE OVER PAST NINE MONTHS
Approximately 2,270,000 crimes have been committed over the past nine months, Yuri Bikyukov, the First Deputy Prosecutor General, stated on Wednesday during a speech in the State Duma (the lower chamber of the Russian parliament.) More details...

15:07
THE PETERSBURG CUSTOMS OFFICERS DETAINED A BIG CONSIGNMENT OF ICONS
A big consignment of icons has been detained at the Pulkovo Customs House (St. Petersburg). The parcel which contained forty unique icons of the 18th-19th centuries was found among the postal sendings which were to go by flight Saint Petersburg - Frankfurt. RIA Novosti was told about it in the press service of the North Western Customs Department. More details...