Sergei Karaganov's analysis of Chechen terrorism is not adequate because Russia could have achieved far more through a hearts and minds approach. The Russian media have an important task:to encourage the Russian public on the course of religious and political moderation. Bin Laden himself was an ally of the CIA in Afghanistan.The Chechen terrorists' activities have rarely, if ever, been condemned in the west. Chechen terrorism has been used by Cold warriors in the west as a proxy war to weaken Russia. Those facts need to be explained.

// Oct. 10, 2006 - 04:17 GMT

* Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said:

// Oct. 10, 2006 - 04:29 GMT

KALUGA, October 9. Tarusa, a small town near Kaluga, hosted its 20th poetry festival, timed to Marina Tsvetayeva’s birth anniversary. The unveiling of her monument (Vladimir Soskiev, sculptor; Boris Messerer, architect) came as the central event.

// Oct. 10, 2006 - 05:00 GMT

MOSCOW, October 10 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian president will begin a two-day working visit to Germany on Tuesday, in a bid to deepen ties with Russia's main trade partner in Europe.

// Oct. 10, 2006 - 05:26 GMT

MOSCOW, October 10 (RIA Novosti) – Russia's investment index will open Tuesday at 663.79 points, up 1.95% on the previous day's trading, following Monday evening's sessions on major world trading floors.

// Oct. 10, 2006 - 05:49 GMT

MOSCOW, October 10 (RIA Novosti) – The latest in a series of items stolen from Russia's Hermitage Museum has been recovered in Moscow – a two-hundred-year-old gold watch made by the famous Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet, a culture preservation watchdog said Tuesday.

// Oct. 10, 2006 - 06:10 GMT

Russia's defense minister said Monday that North Korea's nuclear test was equivalent to 5,000 tons to 15,000 tons of TNT.

// Oct. 10, 2006 - 06:49 GMT

People rushed to buy radiation meters in Russia's Far Eastern Vladivostok after North Korea performed an underground nuclear test.

// Oct. 10, 2006 - 06:50 GMT

Murdered Russian journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya is to be buried in Moscow amid growing concern about what her contract-style killing means for the state of media freedom in Russia.

// Oct. 10, 2006 - 06:50 GMT

Russia will increase is annual exports of natural gas by 52 percent to 257 billion cubic meters by 2015, the country's Energy and Industry Minister Viktor Khristenko said on Monday, Oct. 9. Khristenko's words came after the country's natural gas monopoly Gazprom announced that it has decided to cut off all of potential partners for the development of giant Shtokman gas deposit in the Arctic Barents Sea.

// Oct. 10, 2006 - 06:51 GMT