Yesterday, November 22, a bomb exploded on a passenger bus on Pyatigorsk-Vladikavkaz route. 5 people were killed and 13 injured. The investigators have no doubts that it was a terrorist act and have already made a composite sketch of the primary suspect.

A new predetention centre Kresty-2 will appear in Kolpino city in Russia near St. Petersburg. Taking a total area of 36 hectares the prison will be the biggest in Europe.

On November 20 Steven Seagal – famous Hollywood actor and Buddhism follower – arrived to the Republic of Kalmykia of the RF to visit the biggest in Europe Buddhist temple and to attend student Europe Boxing Cup in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia.

It’s been the 2nd week now since volunteers started cleaning up the Kerch Strait after the oil spill. By the moment they managed to clean up over 15 thousand tons of oil products mixed with silt, clay and water.

Nearly 30 cult members calling themselves “followers of the true Russian Orthodox Church” have recently holed up in a cave in the Penza Region of Russia waiting for the end of the world which they expect to occur in May 2008.

Officers of the Centre for Animal Protection of Sergiev Posad city have caught the staff of the Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery maltreating animals. Guest workers and palmers, involved in fatigue duties on the monastery territory, packed homeless kittens in sacks and left them die an awful death at the rubbish dump.