10:09
HIGH-RANKING REPRESENTATIVES OF THE US PENTAGON AND DEPARTMENT OF STATE WILL COME TO MOSCOW FOR NEGOTIATIONS ON NUCLEAR ARMAMENTS AND MISSILE DEFENCE
US Under Secretary of Defence Douglas Feith and Under Secretary of State John Bolton will arrive in Moscow next week to conduct negotiations on nuclear armaments and missile defence, reported the television company Fox -TV on Thursday. More detail...

10:48
THE RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER WILL MEET WITH SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE USA FOR MACEDONIA
Russian Foreign Minister on Thursday will meet with special representatives of the European Union and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe for Macedonia Francois Leotard and Max van der Stoel and also with James Pardew, US Deputy Special Advisor to the Presodent and Secretary of State for the Balkans. More detail...

13:48
JOSEPH STROMBERG: MYTHS OF AMERICAN MORAL IMPERIALISM
Historian George M. Dennison suggests that already by the coming-of-age of the first post-Revolutionary generation, Americans had begun losing touch with the political doctrines and practices of the Revolution. Chief among these was the notion that political institutions were meant to serve actual people and were subject to modification, as needed, to that end. More detail...

11:05
RUSSIA DENIES US COAST GUARD'S ALLEGATIONS ON CAPTAIN MASLOVETS TRAWLER
Russia denies US Coast Guard's allegations that the Captain Maslovets trawler violated international fishery rules, said Monday Anatoly Kolesnichenko, chief of Nakhodka high-seas fishing base. More detail...

11:02
BUSH MILLS ON THE ROCKS
Due to George Bush’s 1.35 trillion USD tax cuts, the Republican Administration seems to be having trouble finding a paltry 18bn.USD to add to the 329bn.USD defence budget for 2002. More detail...

20:20
MICHAEL PEIRCE: IN THE WAY OF FREEDOM
It is the simple fact that in the world that we are living in, freedom requires that very warrior ethic we seem to assume is the exclusive province of national military forces. To assume that someone else will protect your rights is sadly incorrect and we are seeing the evidence of it as our freedoms erode More detail...

16:34
WHITE HOUSE HOPES PRESIDENT PUTIN WILL VISIT GEORGE W. BUSH'S RANCH
The White House hopes that Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit the ranch of his American counterpart George W. Bush. U.S. President's Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said that Washington has no doubt that the upcoming visit of the Russian President to Mr. Bush's ranch will take place this autumn. More detail...

14:56
PRESIDENT PUTIN: U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH IS EASY AND INTERESTING PARTNER IN DIALOGUE
Russian President Vladimir Putin considers U.S. President George W. Bush a easy and interesting partner in dialogue and in solving most serious issues. More detail...

20:41
RUSSIA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY WARNS ALL RUSSIAN PROGRAMMERS AGAINST FALLING INTO TRAP ON US TERRITORY
Russia's Foreign Ministry has warned all Russian software programmers that they might fall into an American trap. The ministry drew the attention of all Russian specialists cooperating with American firms in computer software and programming that they may be subject on US territory to provisions of the 1998 Digital Millenium Copyright Act. More detail...

11:48
DMITRI SKLYAROV TO BE TRIED IN AMERICA
Russian programmer Dmitri Sklyarov has been falsely charged with "selling and plotting to sell technology" in the United States, which violates the American copyright legislation in the digital century. More detail...

11:25
$120,000 REWARD OFFERED FOR UKRAINIAN KILLER CAPTURE
The reward for the capture of the Ukrainian immigrant-killer Nikolai Soltys has reached 120,000 dollars. Californian governor Gray Davis said the other day that he promised 50,000 dollars to the previously offered 70,000 for assistance in searching the extremely dangerous criminal. The Ukrainian community in California is assumed to be sheltering him. More detail...

09:57
CLEARING OF A SITE FOR BUILDING ANTI-MISSILE DEFENCE BASE IN ALASKA BEGINS
The clearing of a site for building the US NMD base in eastern Alaska has begun. According to reports coming from that US State on Monday the Alaska building company began felling trees and bushes on the territory south of the unused Fort-Greely army base where launch installations of anti-missiles should be deployed. More detail...

11:53
DEATH PENALTY – CASE IN USA OPENS DEBATE
The case of a man who spent 18 years on death row in the USA before a DNA test revealed that he was innocent of the charges against him, throws the debate on the death penalty wide open. More detail...

01:25
UKRAINIAN IMMIGRANTS UNCOOPERATIVE AS COPS HUNT FAMILY KILLER
The ethnic Ukrainian community remains extremely uncooperative as Nikolai Soltys is being tracked down after he stabbed dead his family of six, say exasperated police officers of Sacramento, who assume that his compatriots are hiding the beastly murderer in the city. More detail...

15:40
RICHARD MYERS APPOINTED US ARMED FORCES CHIEF. NMD NOW TO BE BUILT “RELENTLESSLY” AND “WITH SLEEVES ROLLED UP”
US President George Bush nominated yesterday 59-year-old Air Force General Richard Myers as chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs - the top job in the US armed forces (his candidature is still to be approved by the US Senate, although the Senate is expected to do it without controversy). More detail...

16:03
CHINA REITERATED ITS WARNING TO WASHINGTON THAT US ABANDONING ABM TREATY WILL CAUSE ARMS RACE
Chinese Foreign Ministry has called on the US President to be wary while adopting the decision to abandon the 1972 ABM Treaty. More detail...

14:38
JOHN M.DONNELLY: U.S. DEFENSE FUND IN RUSSIA IS TARGET OF CRIMINAL PROBE
A Pentagon program to convert former Soviet doomsday-weapons organizations into commercial projects is under criminal investigation, Defense Week has learned. Since 1994, the United States has spent $67 million in grants for a not-for-profit corporation that the Pentagon oversees called the Defense Enterprise Fund. The fund has invested in jobs such as transforming a former military satellite-tracking organization in Kazakhstan into a telecommunications firm. After receiving seed money, the projects (also in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine) were supposed to attract private capital and sustain themselves. More detail...

14:00
RUSSO-AMERICAN CONSULTATIONS IN MOSCOW: NO RESULT
Russia's Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and Undersecretary of State John Bolton met in Moscow today to discuss the forthcoming meetings of President Vladimir Putin and President George Bush in Shanghai during the summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation organisation and in Texas. The US official told this to journalists after his meeting with Ivanov. More detail...

13:43
HEAD OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY AND US UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE DISCUSS COMING MEETINGS OF RUSSIAN AND US PRESIDENTS
Igor Ivanov, Russian Foreign Minister, and John Bolton, US Undersecretary of State, met in Moscow on Friday to discuss the forthcoming meetings of Vladimir Putin and George Bush, the Presidents of Russia and the USA, in Shanghai within the framework of the APEC summit and in Texas. Journalists learned this from John Bolton after he met with the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry. More detail...

13:34
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND U.S. UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE HOLD NEGOTIATIONS IN MOSCOW
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and U.S. Under Secretary of State John Bolton have held a meeting in Moscow. More detail...

12:07
JON BASIL UTLEY: ANSWERING THE 'WOLFOWITZ DOCTRINE'
As Washington and China face military confrontation, an Australian has warned Americans about how the British Empire lasted so long. More detail...

11:50
NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AND U.S. UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE STARTED IN MOSCOW
The meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and U.S. Under Secretary of State John Bolton have started in Moscow. In his opening speech, Russian Foreign Minister said that he welcomes Mr. Bolton to Moscow. More detail...

10:14
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO RECEIVE US UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN BOLTON
Russian foreign minister Igor Ivanov will receive US under secretary of state John Bolton in the first half of the day on Friday, reported the Russian foreign policy department. It is expected that the sides will discuss the results of the Russian-US consultations on questions of strategic stability which ended in Moscow on Wednesday. More detail...

09:33
USA WILL WITHDRAW FROM THE 1972 TREATY AT A TIME CONVENIENT TO AMERICA, SAID GEORGE BUSH WASHINGTON
The United States will withdraw from the 1972 ABM Treaty "at a time convenient to America", said US president George Bush on Thursday in Crawford (Texas) where he is now having a rest. Bush stressed that Russian president Vladimir Putin knows about the US desire to withdraw from the treaty, and it will withdraw. More detail...

12:09
ADAM YOUNG: DOOMSDAY BLUEPRINTS
In Time magazine's August 10, 1992, issue, Ted Gup reported on newly disclosed plans that the federal government had developed for salvaging the state in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States by the Soviet Union. More detail...

11:16
NEXT COURT MEETING ON RUSSIAN SOFTWARE PROGRAMMER DMITRY SKLYALOV TO BE HELD IN USA ON THURSDAY
A regular court meeting on the case of Russian software programmer Dmitry Sklyarov charged of violating the 1998 US Digital Millennium Copyright Act will be held at 11 a.m. August 23 California time. More detail...

19:44
US ADMINISTRATION UNLIKELY TO ORDER ABM TREATY LEFT BEFORE NOVEMBER, SAY RUSSIAN EXPERTS
The USA cannot be expected to finish a strategic review before November, so the Administration is unlikely to make a resolution to quit the ABM treaty earlier, say Russian experts. More detail...

18:08
LATEST ROUND OF RUSSIAN-AMERICAN CONSULTATIONS "BRINGS NOTHING UNEXPECTED"
Held in Moscow on Wednesday, consultations between Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy Mamedov and US Undersecretary of State John Bolton on strategic stability "have brought nothing unexpected," a source in the Russian diplomatic department told RIA Novosti. More detail...

17:39
RUSSIAN PROGRAMMER’S CASE CONTINUES. FIRST COURT SESSION TO TAKE PLACE TOMORROW
The first court session on Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov’s case will take place in San-Jose, USA tomorrow. Sklyarov was detained by FBI July 16 in Las-Vegas on a charge for violating the American law about intellectual property on the Internet. There is no such a law in any other country of the world More detail...

15:53
MOSCOW CONFIRMS ITS INTENTION TO ADHERE TO 1972 ABM TREATY
During the August, 21 Russia-US consultations held in Moscow at the level of foreign ministers, the Russian side confirmed its intention to adhere to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which it regards as a matter of principle, a source in the Russian foreign ministry told RIA Novosti. More detail...