13:52
NORTHERN FLEET EXPERTS PREPARE FOR RADIATION MONITORING OF KURSK
Experts of the Russian Northern Fleet are preparing for radiation monitoring of the sixth reactor compartment of the salvaged Kursk nuclear submarine. According to Igor Dygalo, the Aide to the Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief, raising the floating dock #50 was continued on Wednesday in the Roslyakovo village. More details...

10:38
INVESTIGATORS TO EXAMINE UPPER DECK OF KURSK SUBMARINE
Investigators will board the nuclear submarine Kursk on Wednesday to carry out a thorough examination of its upper deck. Freshly raised from the bottom of the Barents Sea, the wreck was towed to floating dock No. 50 of a ship repair facility at Roslyakovo. More details...

18:37
DRIVER, BODYGUARD OF UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER GUNNED DOWN UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES
Last night the driver and a bodyguard of speaker Ivan Plyusch of the Ukrainian parliament were killed by point-blank fire from automatic weapons. More details...

15:40
PROJECT TO SALVAGE KURSK'S FIRST COMPARTMENT FROM BARENTS SEA FLOOR TO BE APPROVED
The project to salvage the first compartment of the Kursk nuclear submarine from the Barents Sea floor is planned to be approved late this November, Russian Vice Premier Ilya Klebanov, who heads the commission investigating the cause of the sub's wreck, reported on Tuesday. More details...

14:45
KURSK LIFTING OPERATION COMPLETED
Today, Giant-4 barge with pontoons was successfully moved out from Roslyakovo dock. At the moment, the submarine lies in the dock. Now water should be pumped out from the submarine. More details...

13:40
GIANT-4 LEAVING FLOATING DOCK
The Giant-4 pontoon has begun leaving the floating dock of the Roslyakovo shipyards located near Murmansk. According to Vladimir Navrotsky, the Chief of the Northern Fleet Press Service, the operation will take no less than two hours due to bad weather conditions. More details...

11:53
RUSSIAN PROSECUTOR GENERAL HOLDS MEETING WITH KURSK INVESTIGATORS
Head of the Northern Fleet press service, Captain Vladimir Navrotsky today announced that Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov had held a meeting on board the anti-submarine ship Admiral Chabanenko with a group of investigators from his office and the Military Prosecutor's Office. They are currently working on the criminal case into the sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine. More details...

11:33
WEATHER DELAYS DETACHMENT OF GIANT-4
Head of the Northern Fleet press service, Captain of the first class Vladimir Navrotsky, announced on Tuesday that the operation to detach the Giant-4 barge from the floating dock from the Roslyakovo ship yard had been delayed by extremely bad weather. More details...

11:02
RUSSIAN PROSECUTOR GENERAL, INVESTIGATORS AND MEDICAL EXPERTS TO GET ONBOARD KURSK SUB
Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov, investigators and medical experts intend to embark onboard the Kursk nuclear powered submarine which was recently separated from the Giant-4 barge and placed on keel blocks in the floating dock of the Roslyakovo shipyards. More details...

10:17
PILOT KILLED IN MI-2 HELICOPTER CRASH IN KAMCHATKA
A pilot was killed in a Tuesday helicopter crash in the Kamchatkan town of Ust-Bolsheretsk, Russia's Far East. More details...

13:58
NORMAL RADIATION LEVELS TAKEN AROUND KURSK DOCK SITE
Radiation levels in the area of the village of Roslyakovo remain normal. More details...

12:49
RUSSIAN PROSECUTOR GENERAL TO HEAD KURSK INVESTIGATION
Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov is due to arrive Monday evening in Severomorsk by a special Russian Air Force flight, said RIA Novosti's well-informed source in the Northern Fleet Headquarters. More details...

12:40
MAJORITY OF KURSK CABLES ALREADY DISCONNECTED
Igor Dygalo, aide to the Russian navy's C-in-C, told RIA Novosti today that as of 11.00 Moscow time, 17 out of 26 cables attached to the Kursk nuclear submarine had already been disconnected. More details...

18:52
OPERATION TO DRYDOCK KURSK NUCLEAR SUBMARINE COMPLETED
The unique operation to drydock the nuclear submarine Kursk was completed at 3:15 p.m., Moscow time. According to Vladimir Navrotsky, head of the Northern Fleet press service, the 140 meter-long vessel has been pulled inside the floating dock No. 50 in the village of Roslyakovo along with the barge Giant-4 and two pontoons. More details...

15:51
OPERATION TO DRYDOCK KURSK SUBMARINE ALMOST COMPLETE
The operation to drydock the nuclear submarine Kursk has reached the final stage as the greater part of the submarine was pulled inside the floating dock No. 50 in the village of Roslyakovo. More details...

14:06
BARGE GIANT-4 AND SUBMARINE KURSK APPROACH FLOATING DOCK IN ROSLYAKOVO
The barge Giant-4 towing the nuclear submarine Kursk approached the floating dock No. 50 in the village of Roslyakovo on Sunday at 12:09 a.m., Moscow time, announced head of the Northern Fleet press service Vladimir Navrotsky. More details...

13:05
RUSSIA'S PROSECUTOR-GENERAL TO SUPERVISE INVESTIGATION ON BOARD THE KURSK SUBMARINE
Russian Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov is to leave for Roslyakovo Monday to supervise the investigation on board the submarine Kursk, reported Ustinov's senior assistant Leonid Troshin. More details...

13:03
OPERATION TO PLACE GIANT-4 - KURSK COMBINATION TO DOCK AT ROSLYAKOVO STARTS
At 9:15 a.m., Moscow time, Sunday, the operation to place the barge Giant-4 and the Kursk nuclear submarine combination to the dry dock No. 50 at the village of Roslyakovo started, said head of the Northern Fleet press service Vladimir Navrotsky. More details...

14:06
72 DEAD IN TURKISH PRISONS
Seventy two Marxist-Leninist political prisoners have died in a hunger strike in Turkish prisons since October last year. More details...

13:10
AMERICAN SPECIAL FORCES FINISHED THE FIRST GROUND OPERATION IN AFGHANISTAN
A group of American commandos finished the first land operation on Afghanistan’s territory on Saturday. A Pentagon spokesman has reported this to the American media on the condition of anonymity More details...

11:58
VIETNAM SUFFERS HUGE FLOOD
The flood in Southern provinces of Vietnam has claimed the life of 302 people, including 238 children More details...

21:55
ISRAELI TOURISM MINISTER IS KILLED ISRAEL MAY STOP LOOKING BACK ON U.S.A.
The assassination of the Israeli Minister for Tourism, Rehavam Zeevi cast doubt on setting up peace in the Middle East. The USA would like it a lot - to achieve the peace as soon as possible More details...

20:58
FROM NOW ON THE LETTERS WITH WHITE POWDER WILL BE REFERRED TO “ANONYMOUS THREAT OF A TERROR ACT”
The white powder “mania” is continuing all over the world, Russia is not an exception. There were official “white powder” proceedings started only once – after a Moscow firm received such mail More details...

19:19
KAMCHATKA'S AVACHINSKI VOLCANO MAY ERUPT
The Avachinski volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula, in the Far Eastern region of Russia, goes on getting ready to erupt: in the last 24 hours over ten local earth tremors of between 0.5 and 1.5 magnitude on the Richter scale have been registered 700 meters from its top and inside the cupola More details...

18:56
ANTHRAX POWDER DISCOVERED IN U.S. IS OF LOCAL ORIGIN -- RUSSIAN SCIENTIST
Powder containing anthrax spores, which is being more and more widely mailed in the United States, is of American origin. This viewpoint was voiced at a Friday press conference in Moscow by Mels Turianov More details...

12:56
THE RIGHT PONTOON LINKED TO THE GIANT-4 - KURSK CHAIN
A second, right pontoon has been linked to the Barge Giant-4 - Kursk system in the Belokamennaya Bay of the Kola Gulf in the night of October 18-19. More details...

20:02
IRINA MALENKO: AMERICAN SOLDIERS BEAT PORTUGUESE MILITARY MAN
American soldiers assaulted a military man from Portugal, who saluted to Osama bin Laden for fun when he appeared on a TV screen of NATO’s Lajes army base situated on the Portugal Azores island More details...

19:27
ANDREI LUBENSKY: WHITE POWDER FOUND IN UKRAINE
An envelope with suspicious white powder was found at the customs checkpoint in the town of Glukhov of the Sumskaya region of Ukraine More details...

18:49
LAST BURNING OIL WELL PUT OUT IN CHECHNYA
On October 18 the last burning oil well has been extinguished in Chechnya. There were 40 such burning oil wells there More details...

16:58
PALESTINIANS DO NOT INTEND TO EXTRADITE MURDERERS OF MINISTER OF TOURISM TO ISRAEL
The Palestinians do not intend to extradite to Israel the murderers of Minister of Tourism Rehavam Ze'evi, said Ziad Abu Ziad, member of the leadership of the Palestinian National Authority More details...