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19:16
NASA FOLLOWS SOYUZ
As has been the case since the beginning of Man’s conquest of space, NASA once again follows closely behind the initiative taken by Soyuz, this time over the admission of tourists in space. More in detail...
18:06
REBELS DISCARD ARMS IN SAFETY BELT
Yugoslav security forces are collecting arms ethnic Albanian paramilitaries of the Liberation Army of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja discarded in B sector of the safety belt along the Serbia-Kosovo administrative border. More in detail...
17:43
NEW TENSION BETWEEN NATO AND EUROPEAN UNION
New tensions between NATO and the European Union over the proposed Rapid Reaction Force have been exposed, with Washington being particularly worried about weakening the Atlantic Alliance’s position on the continent. More in detail...
17:40
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ENVOY TO MEET WITH SHARON, ARAFAT
William Burns, US presidential envoy to the Middle East, is meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Authority leader, within the day, say sources in Palestine. More in detail...
17:26
A HIDDEN TREASURE WITH 15TH CENTURY COINS FOUND IN ANDIZHAN
A hidden treasure with some 3000 coins was found by citizens of the Bobosaddin mahalli, or district, in the city of Andizhan in the south of Uzbekistan. Scholars came to the conclusion that these coins were minted in the period of the Timurides rule, i.e. in 1428-1429 A.D.. More in detail...
16:59
CIS UNITED ARMY AGAINST TALIBAN
The initiative by the Commonwealth of Independent States to form a united army in central Asia against the incursions of the Taliban into the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan has been reported in the western press. More in detail...
16:20
THE TRANS-BAIKAL OLD-BELIEVERS' CULTURE IS LISTED AMONG 19 MASTERPIECES OF UNESCO'S VERBAL AND NON-MATERIAL HERITAGE
The Trans-Baikal Old Believers' culture is listed among 19 masterpieces of UNESCO's verbal and non-material heritage. They were first named by an international jury made up of 18 members and chaired by the Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo. More in detail...
16:10
TIMOTHY BANCROFT-HINCHEY: US DEFENCE SECRETARY REVEALS NEW PENTAGON PHILOSOPHY
In an internal Pentagon meeting, the United States´ Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, spoke about the changing world and how the USA intends to adapt to address what the Pentagon sees as the new status quo. More in detail...
14:13
USA SWITCHES OFF RADIO LIBERTY SPANISH-BASED RETRANSMITTERS
The US Administration finished Radio Liberty retransmission in Catalonia's Palos. Spain's cabinet and national radio were duly informed. More in detail...
14:07
KOSOVO: PARAMILITARIES PASS VAST ARSENAL TO KFOR
The ethnic Albanian separatist Liberation Army of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja passed eight trailerloads of arms, munitions and explosives to Russian and US peacekeepers in the village Donji Korminjani, reports an officer of the US base Bondstill in Kosovo. More in detail...
17:01
PUTIN JOKES OUT IN ST. PETERSBURG
A book of jokes about Russia’s President Putin has been issued in the Russian northern capital city. It is of 5,000 copies and will be distributed in suburban electric trains. The book’s author is Dmitri Perevyazkin, the chairman of the city’s Youth League and deputy of one of the municipal councils. He has told journalists that to collect jokes is his hobby. More in detail...
16:01
LEBANON. ONE YEAR AFTER VICTORY OVER ISRAEL
One year ago today, the Lebanon celebrated the Arab world’s first victory over Israel, as Hezbollah activists settled into their positions along the border following the pull-out by the beleaguered Israeli army. More in detail...
16:00
SRI LANKA: TO REDUCE “PRICE OF LOVING” DOWN TO LIVING WAGE!
A banal misprint afforded grounds for a serious stir in Sri Lanka. The other day, the local English-language newspaper Daily Mirror told its readers that Chandrika Kumaratunga, the country’s president, was very much concerned over the rising price of “loving.” The paper went on to say that even a special committee had been set up to tackle this problem. More in detail...
15:19
KAZAN ZOO TO WELCOME BIRTH OF SNOW LEOPARD'S CUBS
The Kazan Zoo (Kazan is the capital city of Tatarstan, Russia's constituent Republic in the Volga Valley area) expects expansion of its snow leopards' family, said Alexander Malev, the Zoo's deputy director in charge of research. Tinka and Franek, the Zoo's couple of snow leopards, went through a mating period some two months ago and "the wife" has developed distinct signs of pregnancy since then. More in detail...
14:58
DEPUTY SHOOTS WIFE. THROUGH “NEGLIGENCE”
The outgoing week was overshadowed for the Republic of Mordovia by an unprecedented incident. Police in the republic’s capital city of Saransk received a message from a city hospital of a woman admitted there with a firearm chest wound. The wound proved fatal, and the woman died during an operation. More in detail...
14:18
TIMOTHY BANCROFT-HINCHEY: AFRICAN UNION FORMED ON DAY OF AFRICA
Colonel Muammar Gadaffi’s dream comes true today, as the Organization of African Unity (OAU) is replaced by the African Union, on the Day of Africa. More in detail...
13:49
PAGAN RUSSIA SAW A 100-PERCENT LITERACY
The Day of Slavic Literature and Culture was marked yesterday in Russia. Contrary to a long-held opinion, an alphabet did exist in the ancient Russia, or Rus, before Cyrill and Methodius who invented Cyrillic alphabet, experts say. More in detail...
13:17
SOVIET-U.S. ABM TREATY TURNS 29
It is 29 years on Saturday, May 26, since the USSR and the U.S. signed the ABM and SALT-1 treaties. Under the ABM Treaty, the sides assumed the obligation not to deploy ABM systems in their territories and not to create the basis for such defense. More in detail...
13:03
“VOSTOK” WATCHES IN POPULAR DEMAND IN SWITZERLAND
If you think the Swiss only buy their domestically produced costly and prestigious watches thereby supporting the country’s economy, you are mistaken. The Swiss take a special relish in buying “Vostok” (East)watches manufactured in Russia’s Chistopol Watch Factory. More in detail...
12:14
TIMOTHY BANCROFT-HINCHEY: US ENVOY FORCED TO FLEE MACEDONIA
The OSCE Balkans envoy, the American Robert Frowick, has been forced to flee from Macedonia after forging a secret peace deal between the Albanian extremists and the Albanian political parties. More in detail...
20:43
STATE DUMA DEPUTY VALERIY OSTANIN: NATURAL RESULT OF AMERICAN AUTHORITIES’ MYOPIC POLICY…
Alignment of forces in US Senate has changed yesterday. Senator-republican James Jeffords, the chairman of Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee announced the ending of his membership in US Republic Party and became an independent senator without any party membership. More in detail...
18:53
ANDREI CHERKASOV: HEMORRHAGE AGUE IN VOLGOGRAD REGION OF RUSSIA
Hemorrhage ague has been noticed in four regions of Russia: in Kalmyk region, in Dagestan, in Stavropolye. The fourth one is Volgograd region, where there have been 3 serious cases, two of them with lethal outcome. More in detail...
17:51
MERCHANTS FROM ALTAY REGION HAVE TO BUY CHINESE GOODS IN MOSCOW
It looks like authorities do their best to equalize the prices of Chinese goods, which are so attractive for not wealthy Russian citizens because of cheapness, with the prices of European goods. The quality of Chinese goods is not taken in consideration. More in detail...
16:53
RABBIS WILL BE EDUCATED AGAIN IN GERMANY
In half of a century after Hitler government’s failure a Judaic theological school was opened in Germany. Nowadays, 90 000 Jews live in Germany, there are 83 Judaic communities, 38 of them have their own rabbis. There were 3 rabbinical schools in Germany before war, but they were closed later in the years of nazism. More in detail...
16:21
GOVERNMENT CRISIS IS POSSIBLE IN MACEDONIA
A government crisis is possible in Macedonia as a result of the break-up of the recently formed coalition, which incorporated all the main political parties of the country. Defense Minister Vlado Buckovski expressed this opinion on Friday, reports the RIA Novosti correspondent. More in detail...
16:13
AIR-RAID WARNING IN SIBERIA. SIRENS’ THEFT NOTED
The Head Office for Civil Defence and Emergency of Irkutsk region in Siberia examined on Friday its population warning system. According to the correspondent of agency “Sibirskiye Novosti” (“Siberian news”), the head of Communication Department Vladimir Skvortsov has not found out any defects in the system. Though some cases of sirens’ thefts have been fixed. More in detail...
15:44
THE MAIN DESTRUCTIONS ON THE KURSK SUBMARINE WERE INFLICTED BY A TORPEDO
Ilya Klebanov, who heads the state commission for investigating the causes of the accident at the Russian submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea, said that one of the main reasons of the disaster was the explosion of a torpedo, but it is not clear up to this time "whether a torpedo triggered the disaster, or it was a shock that detonated it." More in detail...
15:03
GEORGIA REGARDS THE INCIDENT IN THE GEORGIAN ARMY AS AN ATTEMPT TO PERFORM A COUP D'ETAT
The power structures of Georgia regard today's incident in the Georgian army as an attempt to perform a coup d'etat. Neither Georgian State Security Minister Vakhtang Kutateladze nor Chairman of the Georgian parliament Zurab Zhvania exclude such a variant. More in detail...
14:57
RUSSIAN BORDER GUARD KILLS HIMSELF AFTER TURNING UP IN FINLAND
Sergei Strochikhin, a Rusian border guard who earlier violated the Russian-Finnish border, has committed a suicide, Finnish police is quoted as saying. PRAVDA.Ru has already reported that Private Strochikhin who was standing sentry guarding a border section at one of Russian outposts in the area of the city of Vyborg in the Leningrad Region. More in detail...
14:39
TORPEDO IS ONE OF THE MAIN CAUSES OF THE ACCIDENT ON THE KURSK SUBMARINE
"Torpedo is one of the main causes of the accident on the Kursk atomic submarine, said Vice Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov who is the head of the State commission that investigates the causes of the Kursk's tragedy. He pointed out that this had become practically clear from the very beginning. More in detail... | 
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