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...

10:04
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE POLICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN KRASNOYARSK
A three-day International Conference, Police and Human Rights, has taken place in Krasnoyarsk (Eastern Siberia) with the participation of experts from the Council of Europe (CE). More details...

01:25
NEW STRAIN OF AIDS IN SOUTH AMERICA
The PanAmerican Health Organisation spokesperson has confirmed that a new strain of AIDS has appeared in Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay, possibly Brazil. More details...

17:15
SEPTEMBER 11TH – A GOOD EXCUSE TO CUT JOBS
Bottom-line mania, the desire to reduce expenses and make more profit, often at the expense of personnel, has found a new ally – September 11th. More details...

15:43
RUSSIAN LAW ENFORCEMENTS ABLE TO WITHSTAND ANTI-GLOBALISTS, KOSACHEV
Konstantin Kosachyov, second in charge of the Fatherland-All Russia parliamentary faction, said to RIA Novosti that Russian law enforcement agencies had enough expertise to withstand actions of anti-globalists and prevent unrest during the Moscow session of the world economic forum. More details...

13:41
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF UNIFIED CENTRIST PARTY WILL CHANGE RUSSIA FOR THE BETTER
The establishment of a unified centrist party will help change the whole of Russia for the better, the leader of the Unity Party and Minister for Emergency Situations, Sergei Shoigu, said in his report to the party's congress, which opened in Moscow on Saturday. More details...

12:59
PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE DENIES REPORTS ON OPENING CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST SERGEI SHOIGU
RF Prosecutor General's Office has categorically denied reports on opening criminal proceedings against Sergei Shoigu. More details...

12:06
TERRORIST SENTENCED TO LIFE-TIME IMPRISONMENT FOR EXPLOSION IN MAKHACHKALA, ESCAPED
Terrorist Timurlan Aliyev escaped in the early hours of Saturday from the centre of temporary detention in the town of Buinaksk in Dagestan (Northern Caucusus,) sources in the republic's Interior Ministry reported. More details...

20:37
PARLIAMENT DEPUTY PROPOSES INTRODUCING DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Death penalty is an integral part of the struggle against drug trafficking, Russian State Duma (lower house) deputy Nikolai Kovalyov said on Friday. Kovalyov is deputy head of the State Duma Security Committee and head of the Duma Anti-Corruption Committee More details...

20:37
PARLIAMENT DEPUTY PROPOSES INTRODUCING DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Death penalty is an integral part of the struggle against drug trafficking, Russian State Duma (lower house) deputy Nikolai Kovalyov said on Friday. Kovalyov is deputy head of the State Duma Security Committee and head of the Duma Anti-Corruption Committee More details...

20:34
INVESTIGATORS REACH KURSK NUCLEAR SUB'S 4TH SECTION
A group of investigators, made up of criminalists and medical experts, have reached the fourth section of the rescued Kursk nuclear powered submarine. The group is looking for the submariners' bodies, said Vladimir Navrotski, public relations chief of the Northern fleet More details...

20:28
PORTUGAL TO HAND OVER RUSSIAN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY ARCHIVES
Russian President Vladimir Putin has thanked his Portuguese counterpart Jorge Sampaio for his decision to hand over the Russian pre-revolutionary archives in his country's possession More details...

20:24
MOSCOW TAKES SPECIAL SECURITY MEASURES ON THE EVE OF WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) is taking special measures to ensure security to the visiting session of the World Economic Forum called Meeting in Russia 2001, which starts in Moscow on Monday, October 29th More details...

19:44
IRINA MALENKO: ASSOCIATION OF JOURNALISTS OF PALESTINE BLAMES CNN
The journalists from the occupied Palestine territories expressed their anger regarding CNN’s report about the Palestinian youth, rejoicing in connection with the tragic events of September 11 in America More details...

18:18
RUSLAN KHASBULATOV: GREAT AMERICAN TRAGEDY AND WHAT THE WORLD HAS TO DO TO AVOID THE DEATH OF CIVILIZATION. (PART 4)
I set out just a few pieces of the general construction for establishing the new global architecture of the international order and its political, administrative and organizational base. The ground of my approach is the basic element - the liquidation of the gap between poor majority and rich minority of the humanity More details...

16:30
SOUTH AMERICA: SHOCKING SOCIAL SITUATION UNSEEN BY WORLD
An international institute has revealed the deplorable conditions in which a great number of people live in South America, unseen by the outside world. More details...

13:43
RUSSIA'S BUSINESS INCREASINGLY AWARE OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Russian business is growing increasingly aware of its social responsibility, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matviyenko contended in remarks to the Socially Responsible Business and Civil Initiatives in Russia forum held in St. Petersburg. More details...

12:04
RUSSIAN PM DISMISSED MINISTER INVOLVED IN CORRUPTION SCANDAL
Russian prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov has instructed first deputy railway minister Alexander Tselko to replace Nikolai Aksyonenko as head of the railway ministry. Nikolai Aksyonenko has urgently taken a leave from work, the government information department reported. More details...

12:00
CENTRAL RUSSIAN TV CHANNEL COMPARES USA WITH HITLER GERMANY
How to regard the Russian President’s recent initiatives, you learn in details from the blue screen. More details...

22:01
RUSLAN KHASBULATOV: GREAT AMERICAN TRAGEDY AND WHAT THE WORLD HAS TO DO TO AVOID THE DEATH OF CIVILIZATION. (PART 3)
The answers to all those questions are not simple and I do not claim I can give the precise and irrefragable recommendations. However, I do believe that that general outline of the activity of the world community towards the harmonization of the entire organizational system of the international relations, removing the tense atmosphere between rich North and poor South is evident More details...