21:32
THE AMERICANS ARE FED UP WITH THE IRAQI OPPOSITION
The American government suspends the funding of the Iraqi opposition, the Washington Post reported. The funding has been suspended because the opposition failed to properly explain, where was the money, assigned for the struggle against Hussein’s regime. It was very good money, by the way More details...

21:02
SERGEY BORISOV: OSAMA-BABY-BOOM IN NIGERIA
The most popular name to give it to a baby boy in Nigeria is Osama. As the Nigerian Vanguard newspaper wrote, “the Osama season” started in the northern areas of the country after the events of September 11 More details...

19:40
UKRAINIAN PUBLIC PROSECUTOR IS COMMUNISTS’ "HOLY COW"
Last Saturday an extraordinary session of Ukraine’s Communist Party took place in Kiev. Only one problem was on the agenda: a party list of candidates to people’s deputies from the Communist Party for the coming parliamentary elections was to be confirmed. The problem would have hardly drew so much attention, but the Communist Party nominated former Dinamo football player Oleg Blokhin a candidate number ten for the elections coming, and Public Prosecutor Mikhail Potebenko – a candidate number twenty More details...

19:24
JOHN FLEMING: BRIAN WILLIAMS (ALBERT SCHWEITZER) AND THE HUMANITARIANISM OF NBC
Brian Williams, a television news reader for NBC, reported recently that "the International Olympic Committee is considering awarding the 2008 Olympics to Beijing, but [oh-ho-ho-ho] critics are already objecting on the grounds of China's human rights record." The way Williams read this was uncanny, as though he were convincing himself while simultaneously trying to convince others. The "but" in the line carries a freight of bias, distortion, ethnocentrism, ideology and lack of objectivity. What "human rights" situation? What "critics," and where may they be found? More details...

19:19
ALEXANDER GOROBETS: UKRAINE IS LISTED IN REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS’ BLACK LIST FOR THE SECOND TIME
The international organization of journalists Reporters Without Borders published a list of those countries, where assassinations of journalists took place in 2001. Ukraine has been mentioned for the second time on the list together with Northern Ireland, Kosovo and the Basque country More details...

19:10
BILL WHITE: PROPAGANDA BLITZ DO AMERICANS OWE ALLEGIANCE TO THEIR GOVERNMENT OR TO THEIR NATION?
Americans are so ignorant that even when they watch television news programs they come away actually knowing less about the world than they did before, because when they came to the program they knew they were ignorant, and when they leave, they are just as ignorant, but don’t know it anymore! More details...

19:02
HERNAN ETCHALECO: THE ARGENTINEAN POLITICAL CLASS FACES ITS LAST CHANCE
Last weeks events in Argentina have been highlighted by main newspapers all over the world. Scenes of violence on the streets, riots and lootings were the dramatic face of the end of an economic pattern, which ruled the country for more than one decade More details...

18:57
TIMOTHY BANCROFT-HINCHEY: US TO IMPRISON AL-QAEDA IN CUBA
The United States is to use its military base in Cuba to house the Al-Qaeda and Taleban prisoners it has taken in Afghanistan. The US naval base at Guantanamo, which the USA rents for a paltry sum from the Cuban authorities, is to serve as a maximum security prison for the Al-Qaeda and Taleban fighters captures by the US/UK alliance in Afghanistan. More details...

18:46
AMERICANS ALREADY IN KIRGHIZIA
Washington will render assistance to the countries on whose territory terrorist groups are operating, US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said in an interview to the New York Times More details...

18:43
ALEXANDR GOROBETS: CLEARING UP SITUATION AROUND UKRAINE’S ILLEGAL ARM SALE CAUSED INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS
Ukraine is for a long time being accused of illegal sale of arms. In Italian city Turin, a trial is being continued on former Odessa citizen Alexandr Zhukov accused of armament’s supplies to the Balkans and to local Mafia More details...

18:38
SUICIDE AND TELEVISION
The whole world was shocked by the tragedy that took place last Sunday. An American teenager, Charles Bishop, committed a suicide by slamming his plane into a Bank of America skyscraper in Florida. The young man was only 15 years old More details...

18:35
IRINA MALENKO: CUBA LEAVES THE US BEHIND. INFANT DEATH RATE IS LOWER THERE THAN IN THE UNITED STATES
On January 3, the Cuban newspaper Granma gave figures of the infant death rate in countries of American continent over the year 2001. Cuba and Canada are at the head of the list of the countries with the lowest infant death rates More details...

18:30
AUSTRALIA: BUSH FIRES
A most welcome rain extinguished a number of bush fires overninght. Up to 30mm of rain made the difference in the Blue Mountains regin west of Sydney, provoking scenes of jubilation among the weary firefighting crews More details...

18:29
FIFTY TONS OF WEAPONS FOR A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER
The Middle East is the center of attention of the world's news agencies. The scandal with the contraband shipment of weapons is further developing. The captain of the vessel, which was detained by Israeli borderguards last Thursday in the Red Sea, confessed that the vessel was carrying weapons to the PLO More details...

18:19
THE FASTEST OIL SKIMMER WILL BE CONSTRUCTED IN ST.PETERSBURG
Almaz Marine Yards JSC will construct a modern vessel for the liquidation of oil spillage in the waters near St.Petersburg. The project will cost more than $1 million More details...

11:03
UNREPORTED INCIDENT
The Christmas and New Year break meant that an important story went unreported – that of the death of around 107 civilians as a result of US bombing in Eastern Afghanistan last Sunday. More details...

11:02
KATHMANDU: SILENT PROGRESS
India and Pakistan are managing to diffuse the levels of tension in the area as the British prime Minister warns of the dangers of a more global conflict. More details...

20:27
MILITARY ASTROLOGER ALEXANDER BUZINOV: BIN LADEN WILL BE VERY DANGEROUS FOR THE WEST IN FEBRUARY-MARCH
The inflation rate will aggravate in March, premier Mikhail Kasyanov will be dismissed in May, the world war may start in 2008, Alexander Voloshin – the head of the presidential administration - will be dismissed in September. This was predicted by Alexander Buzinov, the former supervisor of the disbanded laboratory for space and astrological forecasts of the Russian Defense Ministry More details...

18:22
WEST ADMITS: CHECHNYA IS RUSSIA’S INTERNAL PROBLEM
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has finally achieved a slight, but significant victory on the international scene. The Chechen problem is a green wound for Russia and an instrument of pressure exerted on Russia – for the West More details...

17:01
SVETLANA TARASOVA: CHRISTMAS RESULTS – OSAMA BIN LADEN MADE FOR CHRISTMAS SALES
Not only children and grown-up people usually look forward to Christmas holidays, but stores and trading companies as well. The Christmas shopping of 2001 has hit all probable records of Britain: the sums spent on shopping exceeded 6 billion pounds More details...

16:29
ANDREY CHERKASOV: THE SLEEPING DEATH
I tried to write this article several times, but every time I put the papers in the drawer. I was doing so not because I did not know what to write about, I just did not want to bring harm to very good people, who were doing their hard and extremely dangerous work, which was necessary for everyone – the sappers More details...

16:01
ALEXANDER GOROBETS: UKRAINE LAID DOWN AUTHORITIES OF UN SECURITY COUNCIL’S NON-STANDING MEMBER
Ukraine has laid down the authorities of non-standing member of the UN Security Council More details...

15:18
DMITRY LITVINOVICH: BLACK THURSDAY OF RAILWAY MINISTER NIKOLAY AKSENENKO
The New Year holidays brought a surprise this year. President Vladimir Putin dismissed Railway Minister Nikolay Aksenenko January 3, the presidential press-service informs More details...

14:45
ANDREI LUBENSKI: UKRAINIAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRATS LEARN TO ACT IN NON-STANDARD SITUATIONS
Recent removing of Viktor Medvedchuk, leader of Ukrainian Social-Democratic Party, from the post of the Supreme Rada’s first vice-speaker arouse discussions: with what such event could be explained, for whom it is profitable, what consequences this event will have for the Social-Democrat Party, which was for so long called “the party of power.” More details...

12:00
“BLACK MASTER” ANDREI DASHKOV: EXPERIENCE OF PSYCHEDELIC PROSE
PRAVDA.Ru presents a conversation with one of the most interesting representatives of Ukrainian science fiction Andrei Dashkov. While analysing his works, critics say about a “permanent shock”. More details...

11:04
ARGENTINA: 5 PRESIDENTS IN TWO WEEKS, A HISTORY OF MISMANAGEMENT
Argentina’s fifth President in two weeks is a political animal who heralds the re-entry of Peronists into political power in the Argentine. More details...

11:02
ANGOLA: UNITA LEADERSHIP CAPTURED
On Sunday morning, Angolan government forces attacked the presidential military column of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi in Eastern Angola. Savimbi escaped but UNITA number 2 was captured. More details...

11:01
MACEDONIA/GREECE – IT’S ALL IN THE NAME
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, or FYR Macedonia, is a rather clumsy name for the fledgling…former Yugoslav Republic of…Macedonia. Greece, however, objects to any use of the name made famous by Philip of Macedon by any non-Greek republic. More details...

21:46
AN OLD UKRAINIAN MAN WITNESSED THREE CENTURIES
Old man Yakov, with a weird last name Loytra, living in the settlement of Malaya Viska, which is in the Kirovograd region of Ukraine, is the oldest man in the country More details...

21:22
THE LAW ABOUT EXTRA TAXES APPROVED IN MEXICO
The House of deputies has recently approved the bill about the extra taxes; the first reading of the bill caused a wild discussion and protests More details...