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HOW CLOSE HAVE AMERICAN INSPECTORS COME TO RUSSIA'S NUCLEAR SITES?

03-05-2005 16:06 MOSCOW- (RIA Novosti commentator Tatyana Sinitsyna). U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said during her recent trip to Moscow that the Americans had secured better access to Russia's nuclear facilities, which was hardly music to Russian ears.

THREAT OF NUCLEAR TERRORISM IS REAL

03-05-2005 15:42 MOSCOW. (Vladimir Orlov, director of the PIR Center, for RIA Novosti) - A key issue on the global agenda is how to stop international terrorists from gaining access to weapons of mass destruction and their components, including weapons-grade materials.

PUTIN TO DETERMINE FATE OF RUSSIAN SCHWARZENEGGER

03-05-2005 15:29 MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Yury Fillipov). This stocky man with a beard does not even remotely resemble the famous Terminator.

BIGGEST CEMETERY FOR THE GERMAN WAR DEAD TO BE OPENED NEAR KURSK

03-05-2005 15:07 MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti commentator Tatyana Sinitsyna)."We have never taken revenge on the dead, everyone will be committed to the ground. This has always been that way and it is going to be that way", said military writer and poet Konstantin Simonov in his address to the residents of liberated Sevastopol in 1944, who refused to bury German soldiers.

WITHDRAWAL OF RUSSIAN BASES FROM GEORGIA: CONCESSION OR REGULARITY?

03-05-2005 14:45 MOSCOW. (Anatoly Belyayev, head of analysis, Center for Current Politics in Russia, for RIA Novosti) - The foreign ministers of Russia and Georgia have announced that their countries might soon agree on the timeframe for the withdrawal of Russian troops and equipment from Georgia, to begin this year and end by January 1, 2008.

WHAT THE RUSSIAN PAPERS SAY

03-05-2005 14:15 MOSCOW, May 3 (RIA Novosti)

IT'S A LIE THAT WE FOUGHT WITHOUT SKILL

03-05-2005 11:33 World War II did not end in May 1945 in Berlin. It ended in September in the Far East after the rout of militaristic Japan, in which both American and Soviet forces fought.

Previous days

GEORGIA: GAS PIPELINE, POLICY AND ECONOMY

29-04-2005 19:07 MOSCOW. (Alexei Makarkin, deputy director general of the Center for Political Technologies, for RIA Novosti) - The privatization drive in Georgia under President Mikhail Saakashvili is ostensibly open, almost in Deng Xiaoping style - the color of the cat does not matter, as long as it catches mice.

HAS TBILISI ISSUED MOSCOW AN ULTIMATUM?

29-04-2005 18:31 MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Arseny Paliyevsky) - Georgian President Saakashvili will only visit Moscow if the sides manage to harmonize a joint statement at the highest level, Georgian Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili declared recently.

THE CIS AND BALTIC PRESS ON RUSSIA

29-04-2005 17:29 UKRAINE. The Ukrainian press, reporting that Ukraine is proactive in pushing the NATO entry issue, notes that Russia is the main obstacle to Kiev's plans. (Korrespondent.Net, 04.21).

WHY DOES RUSSIA NEED A MIDDLE EAST CONFERENCE?

29-04-2005 16:06 MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Marianna Belenkaya) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed holding an international conference on the Middle East peace process in Moscow this fall.

WESTERN BANKS INTERESTED IN NEW RAILROADS

29-04-2005 14:21 Moscow (RIA Novosti economic commentator Vasily Zubkov) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has signed a Memorandum on Cooperation with Russian Railways, which is Russia's largest system-forming transport company.

DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH'S 7th SYMPHONY 'LENINGRAD'

29-04-2005 13:56 Performed by St. Petersburg Academic Symphonic Orchestra

WHAT THE RUSSIAN PAPERS SAY

29-04-2005 13:55 MOSCOW, April 29 (RIA Novosti)

GERMAN WWII VETERAN RETURNS 17TH CENTURY RELIC TO RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

29-04-2005 10:35 MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti commentator Boris Kaimakov) - This story enjoyed a lot of press coverage in the perestroika years.

PRESIDENTS FACE HARD WORK IN MOSCOW

29-04-2005 08:23 MOSCOW, (Alexander Konovalov, president of the Institute for Strategic Assessment, for RIA Novosti).The main purpose of George Bush's visit to Moscow in May is to attend the celebrations of the 60th Anniversary of VE Day.

RUSSIAN HISTORIAN CONTINUES WWII POLEMIC

28-04-2005 16:33 Moscow, (Professor Alexander Droban, historian, for RIA Novosti). Among the many books recently published in Russia and devoted to the 60th anniversary of Victory over Nazism, one particularly stands out: Lennor Olsztynski's The Rout of Nazism.

ENVIRONMENTALISTS MAY WRECK KHRISTENKO'S PIPELINE EFFORTS

28-04-2005 15:32 MOSCOW, RIA Novosti (Candidate of Economics Igor Tomberg, leading research fellow at the Institute of International Economic and Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences).

WHAT THE RUSSIAN PAPERS SAY

28-04-2005 14:39 MOSCOW, April 28 (RIA Novosti)

YUKOS SAGA: CULMINATION POSTPONED

28-04-2005 11:16 MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Yury Filippov) - Many people in Russia had waited for this day.