18:57
RUSSIA COMMEMORATES ONE OF CRUCIAL NAPOLEONIC BATTLES ON NATIONAL FESTIVAL
An annual national festival, Borodino Day, opened yesterday to last into September 8 in commemoration of the 189th anniversary of a battle of 1812 near the village Borodino, one of the crucial events of the Napoleonic wars. Its outcome predetermined defeat of the Grande Armee in its initially triumphant Russian campaign. More detail...

18:09
PRESENT SEISMIC UPSURGE IN SAKHALIN TO END SOON
Seismic activity on Sakhalin increases every 13 years and the current upsurge will soon end, was the comment of the Sakhalin seismic station on the earth shocks which happened in the south of the island last night. More detail...

17:42
RUSSIAN CHURCH WORSHIPS MIRACLE-WORKING ICON
The miracle-working icon of Our Lady of the Don was worshipped by the Russian Orthodox Church yesterday. More detail...

17:36
KREMLIN BOOK GOES OFF AT RECORD-BEATING $8,000
A book "The Kremlin at the Turn of the Millennium" went for a record-smashing US$8,000, the Moscow-based Monuments of Historical Thinking Publishers, who put it out last year, proudly reported. More detail...

17:17
ARMOURERS' CITY EXHIBITS DECORATIVE WEAPONRY
Applied artist Dmitri Tsvetkov of Moscow is exhibiting no usual works in a Tula citadel tower--pistols, automatics, mortars and daggers made of textiles, crocheted or wickerwork, all lavishly embroidered with beads. The murderous nature of arms clashes with the harmless materials and homey techniques to breed the pacifist mood, he says. More detail...

17:29
SUPPORT OF FREE PRESS REMAINS PRIORITY WITH RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT, ASSURES PRESIDENT PUTIN
Support of the free press is a priority with Russia's leadership, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat in the leadup to his official visit to Finland. More detail...

14:35
MOSCOW YOUTH CELEBRATES DAY OF CITY AND START OF SCHOOL YEAR
In the first weekend of September, the Moscow youth will mark two events at the same time, the Day of the City and the Day of Knowledge, the start of a school year. Moscow authorities have prepared a large-scale program of festivities for children and youth. It includes a lot of entertaining, informational, sporting, and cultural events. More detail...

12:54
DAY OF KNOWLEDGE IN CHECHEN REPUBLIC
On the Day of Knowledge, September 1st, 190,000 children went to school in the Chechen Republic, Russian Federation. 447 schools were prepared to accept students by the start of school year. However, many schools need major repairs of the buildings and heating systems. More detail...

11:54
PRESIDENT PUTIN VISITS MOSCOW PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the Moscow Pedagogical University and delivered a bouquet of flowers to Nina Mikhalsky, a teacher who has been working in the university for more than forty years. More detail...

11:47
MOSCOW GREETS NEW SCHOOL YEAR
Celebratory events for Moscow's school children, marking the Day of the City and the Day of Knowledge, have started early Saturday morning. The Moscow Education Committee told RIA Novosti, "we do not have the right to mark the traditional holiday on a different date." More detail...

11:32
RUSSIAN POLITICIANS RECALL SCHOOL MEMORIES
Russian President Vladimir Putin went to grade school quite late, when he was almost eight years old. (Usually, Russian children start school at seven.) In the book "In first person: Conversations with Vladimir Putin" published last year, Mr. Putin admits that he "did not really want to go to school." The Russian president at the time enjoyed spending time in the courtyard in front of his house. More detail...

10:05
RUSSIAN STATESMEN MARK DAY OF KNOWLEDGE BY VISITING SCHOOLS
Russian statesmen traditionally mark the Day of Knowledge - the start of a school year, September 1st - by visiting various educational establishments. They open new schools, give speeches to school children, college students, and graduate students. More detail...

09:40
SCHOOL YEAR STARTS IN RUSSIA
Another school year has started in Russia. Traditionally, September 1st is the Day of Knowledge in Russia. 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...

19:05
KURSK LIFTING OPERATION ENTERS FINAL STAGE
The operation to raise the sunken Kursk submarine is entering the final stage, the general designer of the St. Petersburg-based Rubin Design Bureau which had made Kursk, Igor Spassky, told journalists on Friday. More detail...

17:46
ANDREI CHERKASSOV: PRISONERS OF WAR – TRUTH AND LIES
Over recent years democratic press published many articles about cruel loss of former soldiers of the Red Army who had got to Stalin prisoner-of-war camps after release from Fascist captivity. More detail...

17:21
ARAB RACE HORSE CONTEST TO BE HELD IN MOSCOW
Moscow traditionally celebrates City Day at the first weekend of September. This year the holiday's program also includes a contest of thoroughbred Arab horses to be held September 2 at Moscow's Central hippodrome. More detail...

17:12
CELEBRATIONS OF NORTHERN CONVOYS' 60TH ANNIVERSARY IN UK
British "northern convoys" veterans gathered Friday in the Imperial War Museum in London to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first convoy's arrival in Arkhangelsk from Great Britain. More detail...

16:54
MOTHER GAVE BIRTH TO HER OWN DAUGHTER’S CHILD
Elena Vovchenko was born in Ukraine, in the city of Poltava. She was growing a merry, active girl. Once playing with her dolls she said to her parents: “When I grow up, I will have a lot of children!”. The fate had its own decision on the score More detail...

16:46
VICE-PREMIER DOES NOT RULE OUT PUTTING OFF KURSK LIFTING
Vice-Premier of Russia Ilya Klebanov does not rule out the possibility that the operation to lift the nuclear-powered submarine Kursk from the bottom of the Barents Sea will be brought forward from September 20-21 to September 25-27. More detail...

15:51
MARINA ROMANOVA: ST.PETERSBURG SUFFERS FROM GYPSY INVASION
The citizens of St.Petersburg can see this picture in the streets: dark-skinned people who can not really speak Russian, wearing gowns and slippers are begging the passers-by and drivers for money More detail...

13:50
FIRST PAYMENTS FOR FORMER NAZI VICTIMS IN MOSCOW
An official ceremony of making the first payments to Russian former concentration camps inmates and people who had been forcibly taken to Germany for works at the Third Reich factories during the Great Patriotic War, was held in Moscow on Friday. More detail...

11:07
RUSSIA TO START PAYING COMPENSATION TO NAZISM VICTIMS FRIDAY
On Friday, Russia will start to pay out the first tranche of compensation payments to those who suffered during the Second World War from Nazi persecution. The money is to come from Germany through a German foundation "Memory, Responsibility and Future." More detail...

20:21
ACADEMICIAN YAKOVLEV DISAGREES THAT SOCIAL CATACLISMS WILL HIT RUSSIA IN AUTUMN
There are some forces "artificially whipping up things" by predicting social cataclysms this autumn in Russia, Academician Alexander Yakovlev, chairman of the presidential commission for rehabilitation, said at a news conference on Thursday. More detail...

20:06
BRITISH NORTHERN CONVOYS VETERANS TO CELEBRATE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST CONVOY AT LONDON'S IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
British veterans of northern convoys will gather on Friday at the Imperial War Museum in London to mark the 60th anniversary of the first British six-vessel convoy arriving in Arkhangelsk (northern Russia). More detail...

20:00
RUBIN BUREAU GENERAL DESIGNER TO ANNOUNCE PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF KURSK SUB SALVAGE EFFORT
On Friday Igor Spasski, general designer of the Rubin Design Bureau, will announce in St. Petersburg preliminary results of the ongoing operation to raise the wrecked Kursk submarine [built to Rubin Bureau's designs] from the sea bottom. More detail...

18:38
TOWING OF PONTOONS FOR KURSK DOCK INSTALLATION FITS SCHEDULE
Towing of pontoons needed for the Kursk installation into the dock, fits the schedule, Captain 1st rank Igor Dygalo, Aide of the Russian Navy Commander, was quoted as saying. More detail...

17:25
HMS CAMPBELTOWN ARRIVES IN ARKHANGELSK
HMS Campbeltown participating in the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the Polar convoy arrived Thursday from Murmansk to Arkhangelsk (a White Sea port). More detail...

17:06
RUSSIA MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT CONFIRMS LIFTING OF ARREST ON RUSSIAN TANKER
Russia's Ministry of Transport has confirmed reports that the arrest on the Russian tanker Virgo has been lifted. The tanker was detained by Canadian naval authorities on August 7 on suspicion of collision with the U.S. Starbound trawler. More detail...

16:57
ARRANGEMENTS FOR OPERATION ON SLICING OFF KURSK'S FIRST COMPARTMENT UNDER WAY
Arrangements for the operation on slicing off the Kursk's first compartment will start when two vacuum anchors are put down on the seabed on both sides of the sunken sub, said spokesman for the Dutch Mammoet company Larisa van Semeren. Hydraulic cylinders with which to propel the huge chain cutting the Kursk will be installed on the anchors. More detail...