Among those who were able to take advantage of the capabilities that arose after the September 11 attacks, when the Bush administration began to create international conditions for a response, Tony Blair and Vladimir Putin are especially distinguished, The International Herald Tribune writes today in the article placed on the website inopressa.ru . They both saw what opportunities the crisis was carrying with them, and tried to use them.

The led by Yuri Moiseev, Kazan hockey players at home defeated the Moscow army with a score of 5: 1. In other matches of the 12th round of the selection tournament of the Russian championship, played today, hockey players of the Moscow Dynamo in Luzhniki confidently outplayed Mechel - 5: 2, Novokuznetsk Metallurg lost to Salavat Yulaev with a score of 1: 4, and Severstal in Cherepovets diverged in the world with Spartakom in Spartakom " - 1: 1.

The second wave of US strikes on targets associated with international terrorism in Afghanistan was twice the first. This time only the Americans participated in the operation. The main ones were not missiles, but bombing, reports NTV. If 50 missiles were produced on Monday night, then 15. According to Chief Pentagon, the Taliban has few large purposes, which justified the use of such an expensive weapon. The cost of each Tomahawk missile is more than a million dollars.

The Kursk submarine is located halfway from the place of lifting the atomes to the final point of its route - the DOK of the village of Roslyakovo. As the head of the press service of the headquarters of the Northern Fleet, captain of the 1st rank Vladimir Navrotsky, said in Murmansk today, the distance from the accident zone to Plavdok is 110 miles. "55-60 miles have already been completed," said the officer. It is expected that Kursk will be delivered to the Curses to the shore.

Since 1996, in the camps of the international terrorist of Osama Ben Laden in Afghanistan, military training took place from 15 thousand to 20 thousand people from almost 50 countries. This was announced by the representative of the US administration, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the testimony of some of the "pupils" of these camps, the training course is from several weeks to several months and includes training, mining, sabotage operations, kidnapping, and survival methods.

The Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan in connection with the beginning of the US anti -terrorist operation in Afghanistan strengthened the protection of arsenals, bases, warehouses with ammunition and other military facilities. This is stated in the widespread information of the press service of the Ministry of Defense, Interfax reports.

After the start of the American-British operation in Afghanistan in Japan, 580 objects were taken under the intensified security, ITAR-TASS reports. Among them are the US military bases and representative offices, the embassy and consulate of England and a number of other countries, nuclear power plants and storage facilities of radioactive materials, airfields, and communication station.

Unknown attackers stole a copper bust of Archpriest Alexander Men, installed at the site of his murder not far from the Semkhoz platform of the Yaroslavl direction of the Moscow Railway, Blagovest-info reports with reference to the press service of the Moscow Region Central Internal Affairs Directorate. The missing bust was reportedly discovered on the morning of October 8 by the widow of the archpriest, who visits the site of his death every day.

In the Novosibirsk Regional Court on Tuesday, hearings continued in the case of Viktor Tikhonov, accused of preparing an attempt on the life of the Kemerovo governor Aman Tuleyev, Interfax reports. The defense of Viktor Tikhonov claims that he did not receive an order from the entrepreneur Mikhail lived to find the executors of the murder of the Kemerovo governor Aman Tuleyev.

Usama Bin Laden is physically tired, is in a depressive state, and his argument from the theological point of view is weak. It is hidden in the mountains of Uruzgan province in the center of Afghanistan. Such conclusions were drawn by the CIA experts, analyzing the video of his speech, transferred to the air of the catarrian satellite television company Al-Jazis after the first missile bomb strokes in Afghanistan.

Russia and the Czech Republic agreed to write off 46% of Russian debt from the total amount of $ 3.6 billion. This was stated by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov after negotiations with his Czech colleague Milos Zeman, RIA Novosti reports. Kasyanov also informed journalists that the rest of the Russian debt, as well as overdue interest payments will be restructured for a long period - until 2020.

The goalkeeper "Kalgary Flamz", which defended "to zero" the first two matches of the NHL regular championship, was called the player of the week. The title of best player was also claimed by the goalkeeper of "Carolina" Arthur Irbe, Forvada Brian Savazh ("Montreal") and Brendan Shanakhan ("Detroit").

The Muslims of the Muslims of Crimea Emirali Ablaev is concerned that as a result of the missile and bomb strikes of the anti-terrorist coalition in Afghanistan, peaceful people may die. “Are the American military who abandon the bombs, like rain, that they will fall on the heads of terrorists, and not peaceful, innocent people?”, He said on Monday in Simferopol in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

Credit Suisse Group, a Swiss banking group, announced a clean loss following the results of the third quarter of 300 million Swiss francs ($ 187 million) due to a decline in stock markets, Bloomberg reports. In this regard, Credit Suisse announced the intention to dismiss 2 thousand employees in the American investment company Credit Suisse First Boston, which is part of the group.

2 million counterfeit CDs recorded in the underground Storm Studio are destroyed today at the Salaryevo training ground near the Khovansky cemetery, Interfax reports. Law enforcement officers seized pirate products on January 11, 2000 in the central office of Storm Studio and at the wholesale warehouses of this company in the center named after Khrunicheva and OJSC "Moscow Pipe Plant" Filit ". The cost of CDs was, according to approximate estimates, more than $ 1.5 million.