A new Air Force One has appeared in America. The diesel locomotive of former President George H. W. Bush was added to President George W. Bush's plane. The 41st President of the United States (Bush Sr. reigned from 1989 to 1993) was honored by the country's longest railroad, the Union Pacific. The new locomotive has been given the symbolic number 4141.

Yesterday, the control and disciplinary committee of the Russian Football Union (KDK RFU) decided to punish the first division club Kuban (Krasnodar) for failing to show up for the calendar match in Nalchik against the local Spartak, which was supposed to take place last Monday. The leaders of “Kuban” motivated the decision not to go to Nalchik for reasons of ethics and safety, but the RFU CDC did not agree with this.

Forecast for the coming days An anticyclone is heading from Scandinavia to the central regions of Russia. Northerly winds blow along its eastern edge, bringing in arctic air. The first on its way will be the European North. Cold air will penetrate the middle zone and the Volga region. On Thursday, the central and northwestern regions of Russia will be under the supervision of an anticyclone that has formed over Scandinavia.

Trawler "Grigory Arlashkin" saved "Electron" from Norwegian networks In the Barents Sea yesterday, the pursuit of the mutinous Russian trawler Elektron by Norwegian warships continued all day. At about four o'clock in the morning, a fishing boat, accompanied by a large anti-submarine ship (ASW) Admiral Levchenko, finally crossed the border of the territorial waters of the Russian Federation. Thus, the trawler was out of reach of the Norwegians.

Rumsfeld against the “new Great Wall” US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is persistently urging the Chinese leadership to make the army and foreign policy priorities transparent, and its politics democratic. Yesterday, the Pentagon chief spoke about this in Beijing with the country's leader Hu Jintao and Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan.

Valentina Matvienko wants to become governor of St. Petersburg for the second time Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko, whose arrival in Smolny actually marked the beginning of the appointment of leaders of the federal subjects, is these days celebrating the second anniversary of her governance of the city.

CLUBS Tony Levin Band (New York). A concert by the ensemble of one of the best progressive rock musicians, the legendary bass guitarist and irreplaceable member of the bands Peter Gabriel and King Crimson. Composed of: Tony Levin (bass, vocals), Jerry Marotta (drums, vocals, guitars), Larry Fast (synthesizers), Jesse Gress (guitars), Pete Levin (keyboards). Tony Levin gathered the best professionals from different musical genres into his ensemble: electronic musicians, jazzmen and rockers.

Officials arrested for bribery may only be a link in the chain of extortionists The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow yesterday authorized the arrest of the deputy head of the department of credit organizations of the Federal Tax Service (FTS) of Russia Oleg Alekseev and an employee of the legal department of the Moscow Main Territorial Directorate (GTU) of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Alexei Mishin, who were detained on Monday by FSB officers while receiving $1 million from one of

Niva will be sold only in the CIS The GM-AvtoVAZ joint venture abandoned the idea of ​​supplying Chevrolet-Niva to Europe. The entire volume of the company's exports will be concentrated on the CIS countries. When creating a joint production of General Motors and the Volzhsky Automobile Plant, the possibility of making a version of the Chevrolet-Niva that would be presentable abroad was considered.

The head of the FAS wants to soften the Criminal Code The head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Igor Artemyev, demonstrates an integrated approach in the fight for fair competition in markets and for adequate punishment of violators of antimonopoly legislation. Under his leadership, a new law “On the Protection of Competition” was developed and approved by the State Duma last summer in the first reading, and amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses are being prepared.

They are trying to leave the Russian Party of Pensioners without a leader and elections Determining who actually heads the Russian Party of Pensioners is becoming increasingly difficult. Yesterday, State Duma deputy Valery Hartung told reporters at a press conference that he is the head of the party. A few days earlier, the Tagansky Court of Moscow, and then the Moscow City Court, recognized that Mr. Hartung took the post of leader illegally.

Nikolai Tsiskaridze played the role of a giant at the Lilikansky Royal Theater Ten years ago, Ilya Epelbaum and Maya Krasnopolskaya (that is, the Shadow Theater in its entirety) came up with the idea of ​​the tiny Lilikan people and their official visit to Moscow, accompanied by lectures, museum exhibitions and, most importantly, a tour of the Bolshoi Royal Theater, which, together with its velvet multi-tiered hall, a thousand spectators and a crystal chandelier was placed on the table.

Germany lags behind Hong Kong, Russia behind Nigeria The international non-governmental organization Transparency International (TI) presented simultaneously in Berlin and London an annual report on the level of corruption in various regions and countries of the world. At the presentation of the document “Corruption Perception Index”, which includes 159 countries, two sensations were noted in the German capital. The first concerns Germany itself.

An attempt by members of the Georgian parliament to dismiss Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili provoked an aggravation of the political situation in the country. Late yesterday evening, live on the Rustavi-2 television company, Zurabishvili said that there is a danger of disruption of democratic reforms in Georgia, and suggested that President Saakashvili dissolve parliament and hold early elections.

The first meeting of the new Polish Sejm, which took place yesterday, lasted only an hour and a half and was postponed to October 26. As expected, the Law and Justice (PiS) and Civic Platform (CP) parties, which won the parliamentary elections on September 25, were unable to agree on the candidacy of the Speaker of the Sejm. At the initiative of PiS and the left-wing radical “Self-Defense” that joined it, a decision was made to terminate the meeting.