The US is preparing for a long war US President George W. Bush proudly announced yesterday during an official visit to Australia that "major progress" was being made in the fight against international terrorism.

In Kyrgyzstan, the Russian and US military will do men's work together The Russian president spent only eight hours in Bishkek, but during this time he managed to present the Order of Friendship to Kyrgyz cultural figures, open a Russian military base, get acquainted with the life of soldiers and dedicate his participation to the Russian-Kyrgyz investment forum. People in Kyrgyzstan love Russian leaders.

Kerch has relieved tension Along the entire more than two-hundred-kilometer route from the capital of Crimea, Simferopol, to the “front-line” city of Kerch, among the fading greenery, the bands of police caps flash every now and then - law enforcement officers guard the path along which motorcades with Kyiv license plates have been flying one after another for many days now. As you approach the city, internal tension increases.

The grand program “The Hermitage in Siberia” has begun On October 22, the Novosibirsk Art Gallery hosted a signing ceremony of a general agreement on the implementation of the Hermitage in Siberia program by the director of the St. Petersburg museum, Mikhail Piotrovsky, and the chairman of the board of directors of the Basic Element company, Oleg Deripaska.

The Prosecutor General's Office became interested in the political preferences of YUKOS The criminal soap opera called “YUKOS and the Prosecutor General’s Office,” which has been going on for almost four months, yesterday directly and officially invaded the political sphere. In the morning, representatives of Mr.

The airline is performing a “fleet maneuver” Aeroflot airline announced yesterday the winter schedule of its flights, which will be introduced from October 26. It will be valid until March 27, 2004. During the same period, the company will restructure its aircraft fleet, replacing a significant part of passenger and cargo vehicles. Along with its own, Aeroflot will begin to use aircraft of the State Transport Company Rossiya, with which a corresponding agreement has been concluded.

Precious reserves of the Central Bank and Gokhran will be declassified In two or three years, Russia plans to declassify data on stones and reserves of platinum group metals located in Gokhran and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. This was announced yesterday by First Deputy Minister of Finance Alexey Ulyukaev.

Investigators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to the Bashkir oil workers with a search Another scandalous series of searches was carried out yesterday by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow. Representatives of the Investigative Committee and the Federal Service for Economic and Tax Crimes (FSENP) simultaneously visited the offices of several companies associated with the Bashkir oil refineries (refineries) - Ufa, Novoufimsky and the Bashneftekhim holding.

Vladimir Putin's election program is almost ready Against the backdrop of the unfolding struggle for the mandates of State Duma deputies, it was somehow completely forgotten that three months after the parliamentary elections, presidential elections await us. Presidential aide Igor Shuvalov, who was participating in the Russian Forum 2003, which brought together politicians and representatives of business circles, recalled this yesterday in Nizhny Novgorod. Mr.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow yesterday rejected the claim of the former first deputy prosecutor of the capital, Yuri Sinelshchikov, against the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation for his reinstatement. Mr. Sinelshchikov was dismissed on July 31, 2003 following an audit by the Prosecutor General's Office.

Free vacancies in teams give rise to many rumors The Formula 1 season is over. The most interesting events from the team garages and car cockpits moved to the offices. While the pilots are carefully spending their short vacation, and the engineers are hard at work on new cars, the team heads are deciding who will fight for the titles next year. The main questions of the upcoming off-season: will Michael Schumacher remain in the races and will Juan Pablo Montoya leave Williams?

The presidents of Russia and Ukraine found a way to compromise When the excitement around the island of Tuzla, which suddenly darkened Russian-Ukrainian relations, reached its climax, the Ukrainian side backed down somewhat. Official Kyiv did not risk quarreling to the point of outright hostility, in which a conflict over a narrow strip of land in the sea could escalate into armed clashes both on water and on land. President Leonid Kuchma was the first to play the compensatory role.

Neither Western governments nor international organizations have yet any desire to comment on the border scandal surrounding the controversial dam in the Kerch Strait. Nevertheless, Kyiv politicians, reproaching Moscow for trying to annex Tuzla, in every second sentence appeal to the international community and threaten to complain to NATO, the UN, the OSCE, etc. However, so far no one is ready to interfere in the Slavic dispute around the strait.

Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Detroit" -- "Columbus" -- 4:1 - - Datsyuk "D" (1+1), "New Jersey" -- "Florida" -- 1:2 - - Kozlov "F" (0+1 ), "Pittsburgh" -- "Carolina" -- 1:1 -- Morozov "P" (1+0), "Dallas" -- "Toronto" -- 1:3, "Anaheim" -- "Philadelphia" - - 4:3 - Fedorov "A" (1+0) , "Vancouver" - "St. Louis" - 3:2. Brett Hull scored his first goal of the season, which became the 717th of his career. Hull now ranks fourth among the most successful players in NHL history.

Why did India decide to sterilize macaques? Russians who have been to Asian countries know that in some of them one of the local attractions is monkeys. They do not live in cages in zoos, but on the streets and near churches. “Oh, what cute monkeys!” - exclaims the tourist and rushes to photograph the tailed creatures. Stop! It's better not to do this, or at least act carefully. Local residents know well that behind these innocent, stupid faces hides an insidious essence.