21:26
BERT LANTING (VOLKSKRANT): THE USA IS AFRAID OF THE BREAK UP OF THE COALITION
There should not be more than one captain on the bridge, otherwise we will all go astray! This was the motto of the United States in the military operation in Afghanistan. But now it seems that the American government decided that other countries must participate as well – in order to prevent from the collapse of the coalition More details...

20:43
GENNADY SELEZNYOV: THE UNION OF RUSSIA AND BELARUS IS IN NEED OF UKRAINE
The speaker of the Russian parliament, Gennady Seleznyov, expressed his opinion today to establish the Triune Unified State: Russia, Belarus and Ukraine More details...

19:40
RUSSIA WILL EARN MONEY ON SPENT FUEL PROCESSING
The delivery of the spent nuclear fuel from the Bulgarian Kozloduy nuclear power plant to the factory in the Krasnoyarsk region has been completed, the Russian Ministry for Nuclear Power informed More details...

19:05
SERGEY BORISOV: ABC LATE SHOW POLITICALLY INCORRECT HAS BEEN CORRECTED
The famous American late show host, Bill Maher (ABC) may lose his job for calling his compatriots cowardly. In his TV show on ABC channel Maher released several politically incorrect statements about the American people More details...

18:14
OIL COMPANIES INSIST ON REDUCTION OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS EXPORT
The overnight reduction of oil prices shocked the Russian oil companies. They are going to address to the government with a request to cut the export of petroleum products in order to avoid the further reduction of prices More details...

17:29
THERE IS SLAVERY IN HOLLAND, NOT ONLY IN CHECHNYA
According to the information from Folkskrant, 56-year-old farmer from Someren was sentenced to pay almost 1.2 million guilders to his former farm labourer, who has been used for many years as a slave. This farmer is known in his village as “the horror of Someren.” More details...

17:19
SLAVERY IN EUROPE
BBC report claims African children are being trafficked into Europe and held as slaves or sexual objects. More details...

16:58
DMITRY LITVINOVICH: PASHTUN, AFGHANI TRIBE, WILL NOT SUPPORT TALIBAN
The Taliban is not doing very well. News agencies distributed the address from the Afghan tribal leader Hamid Karzai (the leader of the Pashtun tribe) to the world community More details...

16:31
AFGHANISTAN: OPTIMISM FROM SOME, PESSIMISM FROM OTHERS
Claims by an ex-minister of Pakistan that Washington´s frustration could lead to use of nuclear weapons as buoyant confidence and optimism from Blair and Bush is balanced by scepticism and pessimism from Afghanistan’s neighbours. More details...

16:12
IT IS NOT EURO TO MAKE DOLLAR CRASH, BUT YUAN
The opinions, which are represented in this article were expressed by Martin Martirosyan - the scientist of culture, and Andrey Devyatov - the sinologist (the science, which studies China). The world has split into two parts - the rich and happy and the poor and sick with the idea of struggle with injustice More details...

14:38
BORIS NEMTSOV SHATTERS UNION OF RIGHT FORCES
Of late, Russia’s right-wing parties have been shaken by a series of scandals. A split in the liberal Yabloko party, linked to the departure of Vyachslav Igrunov, one of the party’s ideologists, is still ringing in everybody’s ears. Now, it is time for the Union of Right Forces to join in. Viktor Pokhmelkin, the party leader Boris Nemtsov’s deputy, has headed the Fronde. More details...

12:58
DMITRI LITVINOVICH: NO RUSSIAN SERVICEMEN IN AFGHANISTAN
The Russian Defence Ministry has repeatedly denied Taliban allegations that the Russian military consult The Afghan North Alliance commanders in planning and carrying out of military operations. More details...

11:56
SERGEI BORISOV: A “PLOT THEORY” LOOKED AT IN MIDDLE EAST
The USA is trying hard to win the Moslems over, but it seems to fail so far. Although Americans believe Osama bin Laden to be the chief mastermind behind the terrorist attack, many in the Islamic world are inclined to a different point of view. According to the Christian Science Monitor newspaper, the “Israeli plot theory” has become most popular with Islamic countries. More details...

11:24
URANIUM SOLD IN TURKEY
Two men arrested in Istanbul for selling weapons-grade uranium claim the source was a Russian. More details...

10:58
BRAD EDMONDS: YES, I’M A PATRIOT
Since 9/11, it has required more courage to be against total war than to be in favor of it. The man on the street, readers, neoconservative (and many leftist) columnists, and politicians all have jumped on the bombing bandwagon, and those of us who dare to ask difficult questions meet the same ad-hominem attacks: You’re being unpatriotic More details...

10:00
NEBOJSA MALIC: DEATH BY PROTECTORATE – THE BALKANS' LESSON FOR AFGHANISTAN
It has been four weeks since the war against Afghanistan began, and already the B-52s are carpeting Taliban frontlines with an assortment of weapons, including the largest conventional bombs in the world. More details...

21:58
ANDREY LUBENSKY: INTERNET MASS MEDIA IN UKRAINE ARE IN DANGER: SECURITY COUNCIL IS INTERESTED IN THEM
The coming elections in Ukraine make the authorities of this country pay more attention to the Internet. As usual, they do see there nothing but threats and mess More details...

21:00
RUSSIA WARNS GEORGIA: THE TIMES OF JOKES IS UP
One of the leaders of the Chechen terrorists, Ruslan Gelayev, who was seriously wounded in October of the current year is being currently treated in one of the hospitals of Georgia More details...

20:50
DMITRI LITVINOVICH: “ARAB” DOES NOT MEAN “TERRORIST”
America calls for freezing terrorist bank accounts all over the world. But not all countries agree with the American interpretation of terrorism as a global phenomenon. Lebanon, for example, categorically opposes including the Hezbollah organization the in the list. More details...

20:14
FORTY-SIX JAPANESE CARS BURNT AS A RESULT OF FIRE ON BOARD A RUSSIAN VESSEL
During the fire, which took place Wednesday on board the Russian scientific vessel The Morskoy Geophysic (The Marine Geophysicist), 46 Japanese cars and over 1000 tires became worthless More details...

19:59
BILL WHITE. FACES OF DEATH: THE RON BROWN CASE AND THE TORTURE LOBBY
“It would be grossly unfair to accuse all American Jews of giving their chief loyalty to Israel.”, columnist Joe Sobran wrote in a recent edition of his nationally syndicated columns, “But that some Jews do it is beyond question. … They always pretend that what is good for the narrow interest is good for everyone … that what is good for Israel is good for America.” More details...

19:47
ANDREI KRUSHINSKI: A GENTLE REBELLION IN ASIA
The attacks on Afghanistan are ineffective, “because it will result in a lot of civilian casualties. It will cause anger among a lot of Muslims. And it will not actually help in the fight against terrorism ,because terrorists are not all in Afghanistan." This is a quotation from what Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told journalists More details...

19:31
ANTI-TERRORIST COALITION IS SPLITTING
The anti-terrorist coalition is splitting. Great Britain is not happy with its role as a participant with no will and no influence, a role that has been prepared by the United States More details...

19:01
TALEBAN STEAL UN VEHICLES
UNHCR spokesperson claims Taleban steal UN vehicles and do not allow staff to operate. More details...

18:43
ANTON SURIKOV: USA USED THE TERRORIST ATTACK OF SEPTEMBER 11TH TO SET UP A STRONG INFRASTRUCTURE OF ITS MILITARY PRESENCE IN THE FORMER USSR
The relations between the republics of Georgia and Abkhazia (which is the unrecognized republic) have been very intense for several years already. The attacks of all kinds of gunmen on Abkhazia from Georgia have become a usual thing More details...

18:23
J. DAVID GALLAND: INTELLIGENCE FAILURE OR POLITICAL STATUS QUO
As we approach a point of healing after the attacks on Sept. 11th, many questions remain unanswered. The big question is, why did our intelligence services fail to provide the reliability and continuity that would have helped prevent the aircraft hijackings and suicide attacks? More details...

18:00
RUSSIAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT TO BE USED IN AFGHANISTAN
Russia is withdrawing its equipment from Transdniestria, a breakaway region of today’s Republic of Moldova. The withdrawal is to be completed in three stages. The fist military train laden with armoured vehicles is due to depart for Russia today. The next, with artillery, is to depart on November 10th. On November 12th, a train is to depart carrying command vehicles for fire control. More details...

16:55
AMERICANS WANT TO START WAR AGAINST SOMALIA. WITH ETHIOPIA GETTING IT DONE FOR THEM
Somali is a country that has been blacklisted by Americans, therefore, it is subject to bombardment, which can start any moment, the Dutch newspaper Folkskrant writes. However, learning from their bitter experience, Americans are going to carry out their actions by making a cat's paw out of neighbouring Ethiopia. More details...

16:31
NICARAGUA: DANIEL ORTEGA CONCEDES DEFEAT
Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandinistas, conceded defeat after only 5% of the votes were counted in the Nicaraguan elections. More details...

16:02
CLINTON FOLLOWS IN ZHIRINOVSKI'S AND GORBACHEV’S FOOTSTEPS
In the past, actors became presidents. Now, presidents, having served their terms, tend to turn into actors. “Clinton conquers Hollywood,” Western newspapers reported today. Bill Clinton has already signed his first actor’s contract. Soon, he will perform before television watchers in a detective serial More details...