The body of Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Great October Revolution, will be left without a new suit this year due to the economic problems in Russia . Lenin's clothes have not been changed after two months of prophylactic measures, although there is a strong need to have the mummy displayed in new clothes, The Trud newspaper wrote.

Lenin has been wearing the army type jacket for 17 years as his mummified body was resting in the Mausoleum on Red Square. His clothes need to be changed once in three years. Most recent change of Lenin's suit took place in 2003.   

The Holy Orthodox Church has for several years now come out strongly against the imported "holiday" of Halloween. What to many Russians and others around the world may seem like a fun night of kids masks and candy, is indeed an evil day of a vile paganist religion built upon the blood of sacrificial victims. The holiday was originally named Samhein, the Keltic New Year, which started with the day of death. Yes, unlike most cultures, to the ancient and not so ancient Kelts, the year started in death. The western Orthodox Church, four hundred years before the Great Schism, attempted to paper over the meaning of this holiday, while Christianizing the Kelts of Gaul and England. In its place, it created All Saints Day or Holy Eve which became Halloween.  

Tobolsk is a true pearl among other Russian ancient cities. The city teems with most beautiful views, numerous churches and cathedrals, monuments of civil architecture. You should stay for a few days in Tobolsk to explore it and to see the city in daytime and at night. Tobolsk has a number of attractions one must see: Kremlin, former Stalin's prison, St. Sofia Cathedral, Intercession Cathedral, Bishop's Chambers, old Trading Arcades, and Bell Tower. The city is 247km northeast of Tyumen at the confluence of the Irtysh and Tobol rivers. It was founded as a fort in 1587, near the site of Kashlyk (also called Sibir), the capital of the Western Siberia conquered for Russia by Yermak in 1582. Tobolsk is a large river harbor on the Irtysh river. Its advantageous strategic location on the Irtysh made it the political, military and religious center of Russian Siberia until the 18th century.  

The USA is developing a new nuclear doctrine. American experts believe that today's system of U.S. nuclear forces is out of date. Now they are going to change nuclear targets on the territory of Russian federation. The U.S. is going to retarget their nuclear missiles from large Russian cities to 12 most important Russian economic facilities. According to the U.S. experts destruction of these facilities will paralyze Russia's economy and Russia will not be able to maintain military resistance.   

Wojciech Jaruzelski, the last Communist leader of Poland, has shared with RT his views about the mistakes of the Communist past and the future of a united Europe. Jaruzelski was also the leader of the Communist Polish United Workers Party from 1981 to 1989, Prime Minister from 1981 to 1985 and the country's head of state from 1985 to 1990.

RT: It has been exactly two decades since the fateful fall of the Berlin Wall, which changed the landscape of modern geopolitics. To talk about it, and many other issues, we are joined in the Polish capital by the man who witnessed it all, being the leader of one of the European Socialist states. He is the last living leader of the Warsaw Pact countries, former Polish President Mr. Wojciech Jaruzelski.Mr. President, many thanks for finding time to give us this interview. And my first question to you. As we know, 20 years ago the Berlin wall fell, thus paving the way for the collapse of the Socialist bloc in Eastern Europe and future disintegration of the Soviet Union. Do you think that this was inevitable, or was there any chance that Socialist Europe could have saved itself?   

The Conference of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) opened in Austria. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov urged the West to accept the suggestion from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev about the new European Security Treaty which would include the principles of disarmament and regulation of conflicts.   

Democratic Movement - United Georgia leader Nino Burdzhanadze accuses Saakashvili's regime of defying democratic norms and using methods of political terror, as she expressed in her statement at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. According to her the USA are keeping track of current events in Georgia believing it necessary to maintain "not only democracy but also stability" in the country. "I totally agree with that", - Burdzhanadze is quoted by ITAR-TASS.    

Australian Prime Minister John Faulkner stated that his government was about to make a decision about the withdrawal of Australian military men from Afghanistan. This initiative shows that the international military contingent, which the United States attracted for its Enduring Freedom Operation, is about to end its existence. It seems that there is no unity in the coalition.

Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay said in August 2009 that Ottawa was not going to leave its contingent in Afghanistan after 2011, even if other NATO allies asked the nation to do so. The Canadian authorities, the minister said, were concerned about the losses of its servicemen in the war-torn nation. Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi said in September of this year that he would like his men to return back home from Afghanistan. The majority of Italians strictly condemn their nation's military presence in Afghanistan.    

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said after talks with Russia's foreign minister on Tuesday that neither country is seeking to impose sanctions against Iran under the current circumstances. Clinton said sanctions over Iran's controversial uranium enrichment program would be premature, and that Russia was being "extremely cooperative in the work we have done together" on the issue. Lavrov said Russia is "in principle very reserved on sanctions, as they rarely produce results."   

What fools we are, those of us who dreamed of something different on the threshold of the 21st century, of a New World Order based on the Rule of Law in a community of nations that was united, free, fraternal and equal. Just like the other dreamers and thinkers of bygone centuries, who had written or proclaimed the same words with equal affection, we see ourselves confronted by an invisible but impenetrable wall.

We finished the last millenium with a shocking act of barbarity, the bombing and slaughter of the courageous and noble Serbian people in acts of wanton and wholesale state terrorism perpetrated by NATO, we began the third millenium with the war in Iraq, tied to the 9/11 event by an unprofessional, bought, ignorant, manipulating and biased media which caters for the interests of those that want to sell a package of disinformation to the gullible public, ever more culturally threatened by reality shows, soccer and the footboys (the professionals that gravitate around this "sport" saying clichés, enriching themselves at the cost of those who willingly part with their hard-earned cash to see 22 mentally diminished morons spitting at each other, kicking each other, swearing and blowing their noses with their hands). This, amid a sea of loud-mouthed thugs spoiling for a fight, chanting racist slogans, throwing things at each other and urinating on the terraces, if indeed they are not doing it in plastic bags and hurling it at the opposing fans. And they call it the Beautiful Game?   

It is hard to find two sources that say the same thing about the curious case of the Russian cargo vessel Arctic Sea, which disappeared mysteriously among stories of piracy in the heart of the European Union, sightings confirmed and then denied. What are the facts and what are the myths?     

The International Space Station (ISS) crew will take a break on Russia Day, spokesman for the Russian mission control center Valery Lyndin told Interfax-AVN. "Russia Day will be a day off onboard the ISS, not only for Russian crewmembers but also for their foreign colleagues. The crew will be free from work on Friday, Saturday and Sunday," he said.   

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday in Sochi, the Kremlin press service said on Tuesday.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko arrived in Sochi, on the Black Sea, last Friday.   

"Today we gathered to demand mass media freedom; the fact of humiliating a Geogian by a Georgian must be prohibited. The actions won't stop as long as Saakashvili is the head of state", stated Levan  Gachechiladze, one of the opposition leaders, at today's rally staged in the anniversary of November 7th 2007 dispersal of the protest action - GHN.

 According to Nino  Burjanadze, another opposition leader, the crime of the government is doing nothing and subsequently making people look for shelter and work abroad.    

Surprise ya maggots!!

The United States was unable to detect the presence of Russian strategic submarines in the Arctic before they test-launched two ballistic missiles, a Russian intelligence source said on Wednesday. Russia carried out test launches of two Sineva intercontinental ballistic missiles from two Delta IV class nuclear-powered submarines, located near the North Pole, on July 13-14.

"The American radars certainly detected the missile launches but their location took them by surprise," the source said. The first missile, flying a ballistic path, hit its designated target at the Kura testing grounds on the Kamchatka Peninsula, while the second, fired with a flat trajectory, destroyed a target at the Chizha testing site on the White Sea.  

The title of this piece purposefully uses three of the four languages spoken officially in Switzerland, lacking only the Romanche of Confederaziun svizra . To what extent has the Minaret case been entirely misunderstood by a world looking for stones to throw instead of bridges to build? 

There are a number of important points raised by the Swiss referendum last weekend, in which 57.5% of the population voted against the construction of more minarets on Mosques, which provoked a plethora of knee-jerk reactions from the four corners of the Earth. However, at a time when globalism is a reality and multi-cultural societies a fortunate blessing our generations have been gifted enough to witness, it is important that national pride, nationalism and xenophobia, racism and Fascism be very clearly outlined and understood.   

Saakashvili has himself on the outside looking in

On August 18th 2009 Georgia officially and finally quits CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States]. The process was started on August 12th 2008, when Mikheil Saakashvili, the President of Georgia, decided to quit CIS as a protest against the Russian "occupation" of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Regnum reports citing to the Vremya Novostei [Russian newspaper].   

The age of Saddam Hussein administration started thirty years ago. Saddam became one of the most terrible dictators of the twentieth century. Today everything related to him is prohibited in his country. However, not all the Iraqis can forget their previous president..

Saddam Hussein came to power in Iraq as a result of the coup on July 16, 1979. Saddam's presidency started with arrests and executions of his party fellows. The wars with Iran and Kuwait, the genocide against the Iraqi Kurds and the Iraqi Shiites followed afterwards. Saddam's unreasonable policy led to the international blockade of Iraq. Wars and UN Security Council sanctions turned a rich country into a ghost.    

A pensioner in Kyrgyzstan spent all the money he had saved for the Hajj pilgrimage to reconstruct a monument to those who died in World War II, Kyrgyz news website 24.kg reported on Wednesday. According to local elders, Suleiman Turdubayev "had been saving money to go to the holy sites in Saud Arabia for a long time."   

Russia's lower house of parliament adopted a statement on Wednesday declaring peace treaty talks with Japan pointless unless Tokyo cancels amendments to a law on the disputed Kuril Islands. On June 11, the lower chamber of the Japanese parliament amended a bill on what Japan calls the Northern Territories, declaring the islands "the historical territory of Japan" and demanding action for their swift return.