* A Proton-K carrier rocket launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 8:07 a.m. Moscow time (5:07 a.m. GMT) successfully delivered three navigation satellites into designed orbit at 11:39 a.m. Moscow time (8:39 a.m. GMT). The new satellites, which have an extended seven-year service life, will expand Russia's global navigation satellite system GLONASS
// Dec. 26, 2005 - 05:25 GMT
America has a problem with democracy? Before you speak of us,walk in our shoes. It was us that took the hit on 9–11,not Europe. Europeans have shown over and over that giving in to terrorists does not stop them. You speak of the "Disaster" in Iraq,It was only last week that the democracy you so fear America is losing showed up in the face of Iraqies free to vote. Before you speak for the American people on the goverment spying on suspected terrorists,check out the public opinion polls,most Americans approve of the action and say that the president would be neglegting his office if he did not use all means possible to protect Americans.
// Dec. 26, 2005 - 06:15 GMT
Please Folks; I remember living in cold war years in U.S. and the fear was real, I have same feelings about new cold war with Globilization. Many hidden agenda's of greedy, wealthy, controlling and powerful. People for equal human dignity in life is only good thing about Globilization. Thanks Michael Fermanich, Marinette, Wisconsin.
// Dec. 26, 2005 - 06:17 GMT
YEKATERINBURG, December 26 (RIA Novosti) – United Russia, commonly known as Russia's ruling party, has taken a substantial lead in elections to the local legislature in the Urals, the regional election commission said Monday.
// Dec. 26, 2005 - 06:17 GMT
The Dubai Court of Appeal has confirmed the prison sentence awarded to an 18-year-old Russian girl on the charge of premeditated murder of a Swiss national with whom she lived at a villa here, after he allegedly tried to force her into having sex with him.
// Dec. 26, 2005 - 06:28 GMT
Experts are optimistic about the toxic slick flowing down the Amur river in Russia's Far East region from China. It will pass the city of Khabarovsk in two days and would not pose a danger to marine life when it reaches the sea.
// Dec. 26, 2005 - 06:28 GMT
A snow avalanche has killed one border guard and one local resident in the highland Tsunta district of Dagestan. Another border guard is missing.
// Dec. 26, 2005 - 06:36 GMT
MAKHACHKALA/ ROSTOV-ON-DON, December 26 (RIA Novosti) – A rescue team from Makhachkala has set out for western Dagestan, a Russian republic in the North Caucasus, to search for a border guard who disappeared in an avalanche Sunday, the local emergency situations service said Monday.
// Dec. 26, 2005 - 07:13 GMT
VLADIVOSTOK, December 26 (RIA Novosti) – Veterinary officials in the coastal regions of Russia's Far East announced Monday they would be toughening hygiene regulations to contain the spread of foot-and-mouth disease in the region.
// Dec. 26, 2005 - 07:27 GMT