Anna Politkovskaya was buried in Moscow Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya, who was killed in Moscow last Saturday, was buried yesterday at Troekurovskoye Cemetery. Few people knew about the civil funeral service, which, according to some news agencies, took place on Monday. Some federal channels reported the time and place of the funeral the night before.

The European drug cartel was left without Russian raw materials The Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) yesterday announced the completion of a joint operation with the intelligence services of Germany, Holland, Lithuania, Poland and Belarus to block the channel for the smuggling of Russian chemicals for the needs of European drug gangs.

UN calls for interference in the private lives of disadvantaged families No country or society is immune from violence against children, although these facts are often hidden and hushed up. This was the disappointing conclusion reached by UN experts who spent three years preparing a special report on this issue.

Moscow schoolchildren will be instilled with love for their homeland using current examples The beginning of the week was marked by a new wave of government initiatives to cultivate patriotic sentiments among Russians.

CSKA again dealt with its main rival in Europe CSKA basketball players continue their victorious march through the grounds of the Old World. Yesterday in Cologne, Germany, in the semi-finals of a mini-tournament with the participation of four clubs as part of the European visit of teams from the NBA Europe Live Tour overseas league, the wards of Italian head coach Ettore Messina again, as in the decisive match of the ULEB-2005/06 Euroleague, defeated the Israeli Maccabi from Tel Aviv -- 90:81.

Russian parties make forecasts for the 2007 Duma elections Elections in nine regions of the country last Sunday provide grounds for political forecasts regarding the 2007 federal parliamentary elections. The main sensation was the successful performance of the Party of Life, “Motherland” and the Party of Pensioners, which on October 28 will unite at the congress into a single political force.

Today, the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR) is to consider a draft appeal to the parliaments of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus with a request to recognize the independence of Pridnestrovie. The basis for filing the request was the results of the referendum held on September 17. Then 97.2% of voters spoke in favor of the independence of Transnistria and its subsequent entry into Russia.

The Ukrainian President's entourage is transforming Yesterday, 49-year-old Vitaly Gaiduk became Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC). Immediately after his appointment, he promised to focus “on professionalism,” not on politics. With the appointment of Gaiduk, rumors about the arrival of radical oppositionist Yulia Tymoshenko to this post disappeared.

119 Georgian citizens deported from Russia arrived in Tbilisi yesterday on board an Il-62 passenger plane of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. On the same plane, 150 Russian citizens, who could not leave Georgia due to sanctions imposed by Moscow, went home to their homeland. Today, the Ministry of Emergency Situations promises to make the last of seven flights to Georgia that have been carried out since the beginning of October to evacuate Russians.

By November, new rules for a “market” economy should appear in Russia By November 1, the Russian government plans to prepare at least six regulations aimed at ensuring an optimal balance of labor resources and streamlining trade in the wholesale and retail markets in pursuance of the president’s instructions. Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov announced this on Tuesday at a special meeting on the topic in the government.

Ingo Steuer's past could cost him his job At the end of October, the next season of figure skaters starts in America with the Grand Prix stage. The German duo Alena Savchenko and Robin Shelkov, who are coached by the former famous figure skater from the GDR Ingo Steuer, are not among the participants. Today's uncertainty in the fate of the talented couple directly depends on the future of Ingo Steuer, who has only temporarily, by court decision, retained the right to be a coach.

Service and fuel doubled the airline's profits Aeroflot's net profit, as the airline's deputy general director Mikhail Poluboyarinov said yesterday, in the first half of 2006 more than doubled the corresponding figure for the same period last year. According to international financial reporting standards, Aeroflot's net profit in January-June 2006 amounted to $149.6 million (compared to $71.4 million for the same months in 2005). Mr.

The President of Chuvashia decided to join United Russia President of Chuvashia Nikolai Fedorov decided to join the United Russia party. The head of the republic, who had been famous for his liberal and even opposition views for many years, was prompted to make this decision based on the voting results on October 8 in the elections of the State Council of Chuvashia.

Watch from October 12 on Moscow screens “The Lost City” (USA, 2006, Andy Garcia). The directorial debut of the once very popular actor Garcia (“The Godfather 3”, “Hero”, “Ocean’s 11”) is a kind of “Cuban saga”, the story of one, as usual, large Havanese family in 1958, on the eve of Castro’s revolution.

Tomorrow Russian Elena Dementieva will begin her performances at the Kremlin Cup. The athlete herself asked the tournament organizers to postpone her start to a later date, since she had not yet fully recovered from the injury received in Stuttgart. On the eve of the opening match, which Elena will play with the Israeli representative Shahar Pir (she knocked out another Russian, Elena Bovina, from the fight in the first round), Dementieva spoke with reporters.