20:50
AGENCY REGULATING DEFENSE INDUSTRIES MULLED
Russian President Vladimir Putin has directed Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov to look into a possibility of setting up an agency, with the President, that would regulate military-industrial complex activities More details...

20:44
PUTTING SPACECRAFT WITH RUSSIAN-MADE DEVICE KHEND IN MARS ORBIT AN EXAMPLE OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
The launch into the Mars orbit of a NASA interplanetary spacecraft, 2001 Mars Odysseus, which incorporates a Russian device called KHEND, is one more example of international cooperation in the peaceful exploration of outer space More details...

20:07
49 BODIES RECOVERED FROM KURSK SUB
Russia's Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov has said Tuesday that two bodies of the sunk Kursk sailors have been recovered today, thus bringing the total to 49, of whom 31 have been identified More details...

19:34
PART OF KURSK CREW DIED 135 SECONDS AFTER DISASTER, OTHERS LIVED ANOTHER 4-6 HOURS
Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov has confirmed that part of the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine's crew died of carbon monoxide suffocation 135 seconds after the disaster, while the rest lived another 4 to 6 hours More details...

19:07
RUSSIAN MAIL TESTED FOR ANTHRAX SPORES
About 50,000 police inspectors as well as other law-enforcement officers are busy handling mail to test it for anthrax spores More details...

19:05
8 CRUISE MISSILES UNLOADED FROM KURSK
Eight cruise missiles have been offloaded from the Kursk submarine, Russia's navy commander-in-chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov told journalists. He said 8 Granit cruise missiles had been recovered from the Kursk's missile silos More details...

18:30
BRITISH PEOPLE DO NOT SUPPORT AFGHAN WAR THAT MUCH
The opinion poll, carried out by the Guardian newspaper (UK) shows that the support of the British people towards the war in Afghanistan dropped More details...

18:19
RUSSIA'S SECURITY COUNCIL: MONETARY INFLUX FROM ABROAD TO CHECHEN BANDIT FORMATIONS HAS ENDED
Valentin Sobolev, deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council, said that the inflow of money from abroad to bandit formations in Chechnya had ended More details...

18:12
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC ASKS JUDGES NOT TO DELAY TRIAL BUT PASS SENTENCE AT ONCE
On Tuesday former president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic invited judges of the International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia not to launch a trial which may run into as much as three years but pass a sentence at once More details...

17:49
MILSOEVIC TRIAL SET FOR FEBRUARY 12TH 2002
Judge Richard May has today set the date for the trial of ex-Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic at the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the Hague More details...

17:11
YURY RAZGULAYEV: IT IS HARD TO GET AN EDUCATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF KYRGYZIA
The secondary schools of the republic of Kyrgyzia are currently experiencing a very serious crisis. There is a lack of everything: class rooms, visual aids, text books, and teachers More details...

17:02
AVIATION HOLDING SUKHOI ESTABLISHED IN RUSSIA
The establishment of the Sukhoi Aviation Holding Company opens a new page in reforming the Russian defense industry and will allow to concentrate efforts on creating warplanes of the fifth generation More details...

17:00
RUSSIAN POPULATION SHRINKING
Statistics revealed by the State Statistics Committee reveal that the population of Russia is shrinking by 0.3% of the total population every year. More details...

16:52
DEPUTY PM HEADS FOR SEVEROMORSK
Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov, who chairs the government commission probing into the causes of the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster, is heading for Severomorsk late on Tuesday More details...

16:27
RUSSIA COOKS ANTIMONEY-LAUNDERING PAPER
A document establishing a body that would oppose laundering profits gained by illegal methods "will be prepared and signed in the near future", said Vladimir Putin, answering questions from participants in a visiting session of the World Economic Forum in Moscow More details...

16:18
RUSSIA AND UN CO-OPERATE TO PROVIDE AFGHANISTAN WITH HUMANITARIAN AID
Russian Foreign Minister today held a meeting in Moscow with UN Under Secretary for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Kenzo Oshima. They discussed Russian-UN co-operation for the planning and carrying out of the relief effort in Afghanistan More details...

15:15
HEAD OF CUSTOMS COMMITTEE FOR STRENGTHENING ROLE OF CUSTOMS
The September 11 events revealed the need to strengthen the role of the customs service and the law-enforcement departments attached to it for maintaining the state security, the head of the State Customs Committee Mikhail Vanin said at the International Economic forum session in Moscow. More details...

14:38
RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARIAN MAY BE DEPRIVED OF DEPUTY'S IMMUNITY
The State Duma (Russian Parliament's lower house) could possibly consider Wednesday the issue of removing deputy's immunity from Vladimir Golovlyov (Union of Right Forces faction), owing to criminal proceedings the Prosecutor General's Office has instituted against him. More details...

12:36
300 KG OF DRUGS CONFISCATED AT TAJIK-AFGHAN BORDER IN OCTOBER
Over 300 kg of drugs were confiscated by Russian frontier guards at the Tajik-Afghan border in October, reports the press service of the frontier group of the Federal Frontier Service (FPS) of Russia in Tajikistan. More details...

18:07
FRENCH TRAVELLER CONTINUES EXPEDITION ACROSS RUSSIA
French traveller Gille Elkem begins the fourth stage of his expedition "Artic-2000", the aim of which is to cross the Euro-Asiatic continent along it's northern shores without the assistance of transport "vehicles" More details...

17:58
MILOSEVIC INSISTS THAT TRIBUNAL FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA IS ILLEGAL
A third session of the UN Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has started in The Hague examining the case of Slobodan Milosevic, the Yugoslav ex-president More details...

17:48
OVER FOUR MILLION PEOPLE HAVE BEEN REHABILITATED AFTER STALIN'S DEATH
All in all, over four million victims of political reprisals have been rehabilitated after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953. Work along this line is still going on now More details...

17:20
THIRD CRUISE MISSILE RETRIEVED FROM KURSK
A third cruise missile out of a total of 22 has been retrieved from the Kursk nuclear submarine, according to Vladimir Navrotsky, spokesman for the Northern Fleet More details...

17:10
DMITRY LITVINOVICH: MILOSEVIC IS CHARGED OF ALL DEADLY SINS
The litigation on the case of former Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic is getting a new development. Chief prosecutor of the International Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, Carla del Ponte, signed a new indictment against Slobodan Milosevic More details...

16:27
GRIGORY CHUKHRAI, AN OUTSTANDING RUSSIAN FILM-MAKER, WHO WAS CALLED A "CINEMA GIANT" OF THE 20TH CENTURY, DIED OF A HEART ATTACK TODAY
Grigory Chukhrai, an outstanding Russian film-maker, who was past 80, died at home of a heart attack today More details...

16:22
SERVICE HELD IN TOMSK FOR SUBMARINER KILLED ON KURSK
The funeral service of Alexander Neustroyev, who died on board the Kursk nuclear submarine, took place in the village of Loskutovo in the Tomsk region (western Siberia) on Monday 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...

15:25
FILM DIRECTOR GRIGORY CHUKHRAI, THE AUTHOR OF THE "BALLAD OF A SOLDIER," DIES
Outstanding Russian film director Grigory Chukhrai died of a heart attack at the age of 80. More details...

14:00
ANTI-GLOBALISTS ALREADY IN MOSCOW. SPECIAL POLICE DEPARTMENT READY FOR A FIGHT
Today, in Moscow, a special visiting session of the Davos Economic Forum devoted to Russia has been opened. To participate in the work of the forum, about 70 representatives of leading Western industrial corporations and banks of international finance institutions have arrived in Moscow. More details...

11:29
RUSSIAN MINERS AWARDED GOLD PRIZE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE LEADERS' CLUB
The quality of the coal extracted by the Kuzbassrazrezugol holding company (Kemerovo Region, Southern Siberia) has been internationally recognised - the miners of the Bachatsky opencast colliery, which is part of the holding company, have become members of the international Trade Leaders' Club. More details...