I was under the impression that the Molniya-M was retired last year. Can we expect any more of these 'surprises'?
Yes, at least one. I think it will be same SC "Oko"-type in dec. 2009.
Looks like the launch was from site 16/2, and occurred at 05:03 GMT, not 05:00 as previously reported.
According to this press release, the launch did occure at 05:00.
05:03 is the time by which the launcher came into visibility of Titov Space Center.
Some news about Cosmos 2379 ? It wen to free drift in august 2007, but at the time we didn't know what it meant...