17:31
ALEXANDR GOLOVENKO: KUCHERENA�S MISTAKES COULD BE WORTH TAMARA ROKHLINA�S FREEDOM
October 4, on the 8th anniversary of tank firing of the Supreme Soviet, in Narofominsk city court the trial of Tamara Rokhlina accused of her husband, general Lev Rokhlin�s murder starts again. This time, Maria Matvievskaya, who has an 11-year experience of court work will be the chairman of the trial. More details...

12:03
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT GREETS DELEGATES OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTY MOVEMENT CONGRESS
Russian President has sent a message of greetings to the delegates of the 2nd congress of the People's Deputy social and political movement. More details...

21:05
DRUG ADDICTION SPREADING SCALE THREATENS RUSSIA'S NATIONAL SECURITY
The scale of drug addiction spreading in Russia threatens the country's national security, Security Council Secretary Vladimir Rushailo and Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov told reporters after the Russian Security Council session devoted to issues of the state policy in the field of combating illegal drug trafficking. More details...

20:11
RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL EXPERTS ANALYSE PRACTICE OF ENFORCING ANTI-DRUG LAWS IN RUSSIA
According to experts of the Russian Security Council, the practice of enforcing laws against drug trafficking is inadequate to the great social danger that crime poses, Viktor Pudikov, in charge of the Security Council state and public security department, told the press Friday. More details...

19:29
VLADIMIR PUTIN SETS TASK OF INCREASING STRUGGLE AGAINST ILLICIT DRUG TRAFFICKING
Vladimir Putin has set the task of stepping up the struggle against illicit drug trafficking, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports. More details...

19:25
ILLICIT DRUG TRAFFICKING IN RUSSIA WORTH ESTIMATED 25-30 BILLION RUBLES
Illicit drug trafficking in Russia is estimated by experts to be worth around 25-30 billion roubles, Viktor Pudikov, head of the state and public security department of the Security Council of Russia, told journalists on Friday. More details...

18:40
CONTROL OF NARCOTICS CONCERNS NOT ONLY STATE BUT ALSO ALL PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
Control of drug addiction "is a task not only for the state bodies, but also for all public institutions", Viktor Pudikov, head of the state and public security department in the Security Council, told journalists on Friday. According to him, "the resources of institutions of civil society are practically not used in the interests of anti-narcotic activity". More details...

18:35
NUMBER OF DRUG ADDICTS IN RUSSIA INCREASES MORE THAN NINE TIMES SINCE EARLY 1990S
The number of drug addicts in Russia has increased more than nine times since the beginning of the 1990s, the head of the State and Public Security Department of Russia's Security Council, Viktor Pudikov, told journalists on Friday. More details...

17:46
ARRESTED PLANE MAY BE RELEASED
The An-12 plane detained by Russian customs officers may be released should the air carrier operating the plane, within the next 30 days, obtain permission to transit explosives via Russia, said Russia's state customs committee. More details...

14:31
ASHES OF JAPANESE DIED IN RUSSIA AFTER WORLD WAR II SENT TO TOKYO
All in all, 119 burial urns with ashes of the Japanese who died in the Russia's Far East after World War II were sent from Khabarovsk to Tokyo Friday. More details...

14:25
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT SATISFIED WITH PENSION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks that the situation with pension provision has recently changed for the better. He said this while meeting Friday with Mikhail Zurabov, head of the pension Fund. The President noted that the unified pension rate has been almost 40% increased, and the situation with disabled persons and Second World War veterans has improved. More details...

13:55
WELL KNOWN RUSSIAN SHE-KILLER NIKITA DETAINED IN MOSCOW
A killer woman dubbed �Nikita� has been detained by Moscow police. She is suspected of perpetrating a series of contract killings. The police has managed to figure her out thanks to a accidental witness of one of those killings. Normally, the woman killer did not leave living witnesses. But one of her victims proved lucky enough. He received a wound believed to be fatal, but managed to survive. More details...

13:16
GUIDE RINGS TEST STARTED ON KURSK
Larissa van Seumeren, spokesman for the Mammoet company said Friday that tests of rings on guide cables had started on the Giant-4 barge. More details...

13:16
MAYO VESSEL ALONGSIDE THE STERN OF GIANT-4 BARGE
The Mayo vessel is currently staying alongside the stern of the Giant-4 barge, Chief of the Russian Northern Fleet Vladimir Navrotsky said Friday. More details...

11:55
GIANT-4 BARGE POSITIONED OVER KURSK SUBMARINE
The Giant-4 special barge was positioned Thursday, September 27, over the hull of the wrecked Kursk nuclear submarine by means of eight anchors. More details...

20:40
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES CONCEPT OF DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA UNTIL 2015
The Russian government's cabinet of ministers has approved a concept of demographic development of Russia until 2015, RIA Novosti was told in the government information office on Thursday. More details...

20:07
WORLD'S SPACEMEN DEBATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLIGHT
Kazakhstan's former capital is hosting a 17th international congress of space pilots. Opened today under the motto, "The Gates of Space and Environment Protection", it was convened by the Space Pilots' Association, which brings together more than 250 members from 26 countries. More details...

20:03
RUSSIA: REFUGEE COMMISSIONER OFFERS AGONY LINE
The office of Russia's Federal Commissioner for Refugees was answering an agony line today. A total 143 calls came--for the most part, from Moscow, its environs and other parts of Central Russia, Sergei Yagodin, in charge of migration board, said to a summing-up news conference. More details...

19:31
FALSE RUMORS OF REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BELLUNA ECOLOGICAL COMPANY ARE REFUTED
Igor Dygalo, assistant to the Navy Commander-in-Chief, categorically refuted the statement of Aleksander Nikitin, representative of the Norwegian ecological company "Belluna", which appeared in certain mass media. More details...

19:18
ANDREI LUBENSKY: UKRAINIAN AIRSPACE OPEN FOR AMERICAN HERCULES AIRCRAFTS
Ukraine�s Council for National Security and Defense made a decision to allow the flights of the American Air Force over its territory within the framework of the USA�a anti-terrorist operation More details...

17:08
SUPPORTERS OF RUSSIAN PROGRAMMER PICKET US EMBASSY IN MOSCOW
"US, Respect Russians" was the central slogan displayed by picketers on Thursday outside the US embassy in Moscow in support of Russian software programmer Dmitry Sklyarov. The action was sponsored by the Moscow city organisation of Liberal Democrats. More details...

16:11
BY 2005, NUMBER OF HIV CASES IN CIS MAY REACH 1.5-2 MILLION
By the year 2005, the number of HIV cases contracted through intravenous drug injections may reach 1.5-2 million in the Commonwealth of Independent States, said Russia's chief sanitary inspector and deputy Health Minister Gennady Onishchenko at a Thursday session of the Coordinating Council for HIV Infection Problems in the CIS. He also said 90% of HIV cases were drug addicts. More details...

15:03
INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR PHYSICS CONFERENCE OPENS IN TASHKENT
The fourth international conference, Contemporary Problems in Nuclear Physics, has opened in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent. Around 250 scientists from Germany, Egypt, Israel, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, the USA, Turkey, Ukraine and France are attending the event. The results of new research in theoretical and applied physics will be disclosed at the conference. More details...

12:48
MOSCOW SURPRISED WITH WASHINGTON TIMES PUBLICATION INSISTING ON OSAMA BIN LADEN'S LINKS WITH RUSSIAN MAFIA
Moscow is surprised with the Washington Times publication asserting with reference to the US intelligence service anonymous representatives that "terrorist number one" Osama bin Laden and his organization purchase components for the production of chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons through certain Russian mafia gangs. More details...

20:51
SERGEI BORISOV: TV COMPANIES MAY GO BANKRUPT BECAUSE OF THE WAR WITH TERRORISM
The unexampled scale of the terror attack in the United States made the world�s leading TV companies spend much more funds than usual on making the reports about those horrid events More details...

17:21
RUSSIAN CITIZENS HAVE A RIGHT TO CAUSE ANY DAMAGE TO CRIMINALS WHO ASSAULT THEM
The Russian Federation State Duma held the first reading to the bill that enables the citizens of Russia to cause any amount of damage to criminals who assault them More details...

16:05
CRIMINALS WHO ESCAPED FROM �BUTYRKA� PRISON CAUGHT
Two very dangerous criminals sentenced to death, Anatoli Kulikov and Vladimir Zhelezoglo, have been hiding in a forest not far from Lipitsy village in Serpukhov district of the Moscow region. The third criminal, Boris Bezotechestvo, has not yet been found. More details...

16:00
COMPATRIOTS CONGRESS TO BE HELD IN MOSCOW
Representatives from more than 60 countries are to participate in the congress of compatriots living abroad, to open in Moscow on October 11. More details...

15:40
WELL-KNOWN SPORTSMAN ASLAMBEK BISULTANOV DIED
The Russian wrestling federation announces with deep regret the sudden death of USSR honoured master of sports, world champion in free-style wrestling, champion of Europe and the USSR, many-time World Cup winner Aslambek Bisultanov. He was 45 years old.

15:11
ECOLOGICAL FORUM APPROVES NATIONAL DOCTRINE FOR RUSSIA
The National Ecological Forum, which is currently being held in Moscow, has approved the concept of an ecological doctrine for Russia, a draft of which was worked out on the instructions of President Vladimir Putin. More details...