A must-win game against Sweden will decide Russia’s fate at Euro 2008. Sports commentator Ekaterina Malovichko joined RT to talk about the team’s chances before the match.

Four people have been charged in connection with the murder of the prominent journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Political analyst Dmitry Babich, of Russia Profile magazine, says that the Western media is sceptical about the investigation.

The U.S. Senate has condemned Pentagon officials for torturing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Our military analyst Evgeny Khruschev says the so-called “harsh interrogation techniques” originated in Afghanistan.

A new Russian facility destroying chemical weapons is to begin operating in August. Valery Petrosyan, who is a United Nations expert on chemical safety problems, says Moscow is ahead of its obligations to eliminate its stockpiles by 2012.

Another Russian female cosmonaut might go into space within three years, according to the Head of the Russian Space Agency Anatoly Perminov.

There will be more women cosmonauts, says the first woman in space. Forty-five years after her historic flight, Valentina Tereshkova recalls what caused her to be picked for the important mission.