11:14
DELEGATION OF CHINESE HEILONGJIANG PROVINCE COMMENCED ITS VISIT TO RUSSIAN FAR EAST
The official governmental delegation of the Chinese Heilongjiang province will stay in Khabarovsk (a regional centre of the Russian Far East) from October 27 till October 30. The aforementioned province is located on the Amur and Ussuri rivers along the Russo-Chinese border. More details...

09:47
LENINGRAD REGIONAL PROJECTS PUT ON PRIORITY LIST FOR EBRD CREDITS
Responding to a request from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the federal government has put together a short list of priority projects it would like the organization to help fund, and three of the four are located in the Leningrad region. More details...

16:51
ROSOBORONEXPORT AND MOSCOW GOVERNMENT SIGN GENERAL AGREEMENT ON COOPERATION
Andrei Belyaninov, general director of the Rosoboronexport State Company, and Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov signed a general agreement on cooperation between the company and the Moscow government today. More details...

11:33
PRIMORSKY REGION TO RECEIVE $7.7M IN ADDITIONAL FINANCIAL AID
The Russian government has prepared an instruction to allocate 228 million rubles (about $7.7 million) from additional revenues to the Primorsky Region. More details...

10:54
VIOLENT OCEAN CYCLONE RAGING IN KAMCHATKA AND NORTHERN KURIL ISLANDS
Last night, a violent ocean storm cyclone with strong wind hit the southern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East. More details...

19:51
INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS ADVISE SETTING UP UNIFIED POWER GRID OF NORTH-EAST ASIA
Participants in an international seminar of power experts, just completed, have recommended a unified power grid for North-East Asia countries - Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Mongolia. More details...

18:35
MOSCOW PLANS TO OFFER FOREIGN INVESTORS FIVE LARGE PLOTS OF CITY LAND FOR DEVELOPMENT
Moscow proposes to offer foreign investors, including those from the US, five large plots of city land for development. This theme was taken up during a meeting between Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and a group of leading American businessmen. More details...

16:18
GREF DECLARES FUTURE CONSTRUCTION OF KHABAROVSK-SAKHALIN RAILROAD BRIDGE UNIQUE
The construction of a railroad bridge between the Khabarovsk region and Sakhalin is the most promising investment project of Russia, and will have to be implemented sooner or later. More details...

15:54
$700M TO BE INVESTED IN SAKHALIN-1 PROJECT IN 2002
About $700 million will be invested in the Sakhalin-1 project in 2002, Economy Minister German Gref announced at a press conference today. The conference was devoted to results of his trip to the Sakhalin region. More details...

11:35
RUSSIAN INTERIOR MINISTRY HOLDS PLANNED COMMAND-STAFF EXERCISES IN KARACHAI-CIRCASSIA
The command-staff exercises of the Russian interior ministry, which are being held in Karachai-Circassia, (a North-Caucasus republic within the Russian Federation) "are of a planned character", Alexander Papura, interior minister of the Karachai-Circassian republic, said on Wednesday. More details...

11:08
MUNICIPAL LOANS COMMITTEE TO PLACE MOSCOW CITY BONDS AT MICEX TODAY
The Committee on Municipal Loans and Stock Market Development of Moscow will hold an auction at MICEX today to place city bonds of the 19th issue. More details...

10:18
FRENCH NAVY'S FREGATE ARRIVES IN VLADIVOSTOK PORT
The Prerial fregate of the French Navy has arrived today at the main base of Russia's Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok. More details...

15:30
ANATOLI BARANOW: WE ALL BECOME PATRONS OF ART
Tomorrow, the Moscow City Duma intends to award painter Alexandr Shilov with the title of Honorary Citizen of Moscow: “for merits before the capital in developing Russian culture and reviving traditions of patronage of art." More details...

12:42
MOSCOW READY TO DEVELOP BROAD MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL COOPERATION WITH ROMANIA
Moscow is ready to develop broad mutually beneficial cooperation with Romania in all spheres - political, economic and cultural, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said opening negotiations with his Romanian counterpart, incumbent OSCE chairman Mircea Geoana Monday. More details...

11:51
TOMSK MAIL WORKERS WEAR MASKS AND GLOVES
Mail workers of the Western Siberian city of Tomsk have been working in masks and gloves since Tuesday, Farit Astakhov, the Chief of the Regional Department of the Russian Federal Post, was quoted as saying. More details...

11:39
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF FAR EAST AND TRANSBAIKAL REGION TO BECOME GOVERNMENT'S PRIORITY IN NEXT FEW YEARS
The economic development of the Far East and the Transbaikal region will be the government's priority goal for the next few years, said German Gref, Minister of Economic Development and Trade, upon his arrival in Khabarovsk (administrative centre in the Russian Far East). More details...

11:30
JAPANESE CENTRE IN NIZHNY NOVGOROD
A Japanese Centre was opened on Tuesday in Nizhny Novgorod (Volga region). The decision to establish it was taken by the government of Japan in the context of the programme for the technological assistance to Russia. More details...

10:36
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA'S INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL TIMED TO COMPOSER'S ANNIVERSARY
Sofia Gubaidulina's international music festival is to be held in Moscow on October 23-31. The festival is timed to the composer's 70th anniversary. One of the most brilliant Russian composers of the 20th century Alfred Schnitke said about Gubaidulina, "She is incomprehensible, so she is a phenomenon. 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...

15:12
ROSTOV EXPERTS DO NOT FIND ANTHRAX SPORES IN LETTER FROM BRITAIN
Experts with the Rostov anti-plague institute have not found anthrax spores in the powder a local resident had received in a letter from Great Britain. This is what RIA Novosti was told at the anti-plague institute of Rostov-on-Don, Russia's Southern Federal District. More details...

13:15
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION 'CUSTOMS SERVICE 2001' OPENS IN MOSCOW
The second international exhibition "Customs Service-2001" will be held at the Expocentre exhibition complex in Krasnaya Presnya between October 22 and 25. More details...

11:00
OLD WOMEN SELL VENEREAL DISEASES
Sunflower seeds, which for many centuries were so popular among villagers in Russia being traditionally cracked in village parties with songs accompanied by accordion, suddenly have turned out to be harmful. City authorities of Ryazan have even forbidden the selling sunflower seeds in the streets of the city. More details...

14:01
LAW ENFORCEMENT BODIES FIND OVER 10 KILOS OF TOXIC SUBSTANCES IN CHECHNYA
Over 10 kilograms of toxic substances were found as a result of the special operation against terrorists carried out by law enforcement and Federal Security Service forces in the regional centre of Kurchaloi on Saturday, said the temporary press center of the Russian Interior Ministry in Khankala. More details...

21:23
PROBLEM OF PROVIDING ELECTRICITY TO CHECHNYA MIGHT BE CONSIDERED SETTLED
According to the report of the RIA Novosti correspondent, Chairman of the board of the "UES Russia" Russian Joint-stock company Anatoly Chubais informed journalists that the matter of supplying electricity to Chechnya might be considered settled More details...

18:04
GERMAN DELEGATION VISITING NIZHNY NOVGOROD
A delegation of the German state of Northrhein-Westphalia has come to Nizhni Novgorod, a large industrial center on the Volga River, on a routine visit More details...

17:27
DMITRY LITVINOVICH: BACKSTAGE POLITICAL STRUGGLE IN CHECHNYA
The war in Chechnya is going on. We learn about the new acts of terrorism, murders of civilians every day as well as about the destruction of a regular gang of guerrillas. The scenes of violence and death on television do not frighten the viewers anymore – everybody got used to it More details...

14:34
BIBLE PUBLISHED IN TATAR FOR THE FIRST TIME
The Russian republic of Tatarstan has a new version of the Bible thanks to the Idel-Press publishing house. For the first time in history, all 27 books of the new testament have been translated into Tatar. The Moscow Academic-Research Institute worked on the Tatar Bible, which has a print run of 25,000 copies. More details...

14:10
VLADIVOSTOK INSTITUTE SCIENTISTS SAVE BABY-WHALE
Scientists from the Vladivostok Institute of Marine Biology have saved a baby-whale which got trapped in ropes at Russky island near Vladivostok (Russia's Far East). More details...

14:05
HUMANITARIAN AID WILL HELP RELIEVE REFUGEE EXODUS
Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu announced at a Friday meeting with his counterparts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan that deliveries of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan would help to relieve the large-scale flow of refugees from this country. More details...

13:30
MARINA ROMANOVA: EMERGENCY EVENT IN ST PETERSBURG
This September will be kept in mind of many St Petersburg citizens because of an unusual burst of poisonings in kindergartens of the city. Within ten days, 654 people addressed to doctors because of this reason. More details...