The Cavern nightclub - the cradle of the Beatles - is about to "clone" around the world - from Rio to Moscow, according to Reuters. The Cavern will open in November in the Spanish resort of Fuengirola, in June 2004 in Adelaide (Australia), and in Rio next autumn. If all goes well, the network owners will repeat the experiment in Buenos Aires, New York and Moscow.

The international organization "Doctors Without Borders" has stopped its work on the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis in Russia. The Ministry of Health, having made a lot of efforts, nevertheless "gored" the international anti-tuberculosis program.

In Primorye, a criminal gang has been identified that was involved in the death of the governor of the Magadan region Valentin Tsvetkov, the head of the transport department of the administration of Vladivostok Tatyana Safronova and the head of the committee for architecture and capital construction of the administration of the Primorsky Territory Sergey Akhapkin. Some of the members of the group are still on the federal wanted list.

Yuri Luzhkov. Photo from the site www.gazeta.ru The Mosgorizbirkom issued the “independent newspaper” by the Mosgorisbirkom, a warning for inaccuracy in the coverage of the election campaign of the Moscow Mayor.

As a result of bad weather in Moscow, no one was injured, RIA Novosti was told on Wednesday at the Main Directorate of Civil Defense and Emergencies. "Serious incidents in Moscow due to adverse weather conditions have not been recorded," the Main Directorate of Civil Defense and Emergency Situations stressed. On Tuesday, strong gusts of wind in Moscow knocked down about 200 trees and torn down 25 advertising banners.

Organizers of the Frankfurt book fair deny that the discussion on Anna Politkovskaya's book was canceled under pressure from Moscow. NEWsru.com reports this. They claim that the journalist simply could not find the money for a ticket to Frankfurt.

Anatoly Popov. Photo Phototoss The head of the Chechen government Anatoly Popov accepted the proposal of the elected president of the Chechen Republic Akhmad Kadyrov to head the government again. He stated this on Wednesday at a press conference in Grozny. Popov noted that the backbone of the Cabinet of Ministers will be preserved: "We do not set ourselves the goal of making personnel changes for the sake of changes.

Arnold Schwarzenegger. Frame from the movie 'Conan Barbar' from the site www.kinomania.ru On Tuesday morning, the Californians lined up in line to polling stations even before they were opened. More than 65 percent of voters took advantage of their right to choose. The state did not see such activity from the 1964 presidential election, where Lindon Johnson defeated Barry Goldootore. 11 months ago, when Governor Gray Davis was elected for a second term, the turnout amounted to 50.6 percent.

The Election Commission of the Primorsky Territory refused to consider Viktor Cherepkov's application for registration as a candidate for the State Duma. "Viktor Cherepkov violated the terms and procedure for submitting the necessary documents relating to the financial side of the process," RIA Novosti was told at the regional election committee.

At a forum owned by the Farlep-Telecom telephone company of Ukraine, a priest of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ (Donetsk, Ukraine) for the first time in the history of the Internet officially anathematized a moderator for opposing the preaching of the Gospel, writes PROext . The forum moderator, acting under the pseudonym r0ar1ng_angel, had previously deleted several Christian articles containing a biblical view of sex and family from the topic "How to seduce girls ...".

K-159. Photo from the site www.ksf.ru In December, the Navy will have a new chief of the main headquarters. The now -occupying this position, Admiral Viktor Kravchenko, on December 5, turns 60 years old - this is the age limit for military service for generals and admirals. Extension is possible only with a special decree of the president.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the FSB may be deprived of the functions of providing services to state and commercial structures for the transportation of goods. The corresponding proposal of the government commission on administrative reform will be considered at a meeting of the government of the Russian Federation on October 9, RBC reports.

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder arrived in Yekaterinburg. According to RIA "Novosti", Vladimir Putin met him at the airport "Koltsovo" at the gangway of the plane. The leaders of the two countries hugged and talked to each other for a couple of minutes. The head of the Russian state arrived in Yekaterinburg about half an hour earlier and waited for the chancellor at the airport building, where he held a working meeting with the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Eduard Rossel.

In Austria, due to irrigation rains, a 10-ton rock fell on the road, which almost crushed a group of children, RIA Novosti reports. According to the gendarmerie of the Austrian federal state of Styria, the incident happened in the area of ​​​​the village of Breitenau. 14-year-old teenagers were engaged in rock climbing.

Representatives of the youth "Yabloko" and a number of environmental organizations held an unsanctioned picket near the building of the State Duma on Okhotny Ryad on Wednesday. The picketers - there were about 15-20 of them - protested against the adoption of a law essentially allowing the cutting of forests of the first category for the construction of elite housing.