Russians Mock Nato Rebuke

Moscow is holding its ground despite sharp criticism, writes Paul McGeough.

Whatever The Spin, It Is Still A War With Absolutely No Winners

Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, puts a positive spin on the refusal of the United States to get involved in a military confrontation with Russia. It is, according to him, because the US has spent decades trying to avoid military confrontation with the very unreasonable Russians.

Opals Are Bounding For Glory

THE Opals Australian womens basketball team play the last game of the preliminary round this weekend against the strong Russians.

Australians Take Heat

SYDNEY Games gold medallist Natalie Cook and partner Tamsin Barnett began the beach volleyball competition with a tough three-set victory over Russians Natalia Uryadova and Alexandra Shiryaeva at the Chaoyang Park stadium yesterday.

Russians Farewell Writer Who 'showed Exit Out Of Soviet Hell'

RUSSIANS braved torrential rain yesterday as they queued to pay their last respects to Nobel Prize-winning writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn.