  New results from the Baikal neutrino telescope NT200, based on the first 5
years of operation (1998-2003), are presented. We derive an all-flavor limit on
the diffuse flux of astrophysical neutrinos between 20 TeV and 50 PeV, extract
an enlarged sample of high energy muon neutrino events, and obtain limits on
the flux of high energy atmospheric muons. In 2005, the upgraded telescope
NT200+ will be commissioned: 3 additional distant strings with only 12
photo-multipliers each will rise the effective volume to 20 Mton at 10 PeV for
this largest running neutrino telescope in the Northern hemisphere.
