In most of the European territory of Russia, the weather will be controlled by Atlantic cyclones. They will bring inclement weather and slight warming. Inclement weather with precipitation is expected in the northwestern regions. On Wednesday it will be rain and sleet, and on Thursday it will be mostly snow, which is expected to be heavy in places. Wind gusts will reach 15 m/s. The air temperature on Wednesday during the day is -2...+3оС.

Over the course of a quarter of a century, the aircraft carrier museum has grown into the bottom of the Hudson. The pretentious action of sending one of the main symbols of the city, the aircraft carrier Intrepid, to dry docks for repairs in New York ended in unprecedented embarrassment. Long turned into a museum, this World War II veteran, a participant in the campaigns in Korea and Vietnam, was unable to escape the captivity of the Hudson's bottom silt on Monday.

The second Kyrgyz revolution is canceled Yesterday, the first blood was shed on the streets of Bishkek since the start of the open-ended opposition rally. Four people were hospitalized with minor gunshot wounds received during clashes between opposition supporters and counter-protesters organized by pro-government forces. Two more people were taken away with suspected heart attacks. The stage that the Kyrgyz crisis is going through really resembles a pre-infarction state.

The Prosecutor General's Office demands that the license of TNK-BP's subsidiary be revoked The search for skeletons in the closet of TNK-BP, which clearly does not fit into the Kremlin’s new oil and gas policy, continues. Yesterday, the Prosecutor General's Office announced that it had submitted a proposal to revoke the license of TNK-BP's 100 percent subsidiary, Rospan International CJSC.

Two billion will go to buy planes Transaero Airlines held a presentation of a bond issue in Moscow yesterday, the auction of which is scheduled for February 2. As Alexander Pleshakov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Transaero, said at the presentation, a loan of 2.5 billion rubles. for a period of three years will be placed on the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange. The issuer of the bonds is the specially created company Transaero-Finance.

The FSB scared the country with the plans of long-killed militants The head of the FSB, Nikolai Patrushev, announced yesterday at a meeting of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) that the special services became aware of the intention of Chechen separatists to carry out a series of explosions at hydraulic structures in Russia. According to him, this threat primarily hangs over the southern regions.

Russian banks are making credit cards universal The Bank of Moscow has begun issuing credit cards for travel in the capital's metro, hoping that the new product will be in demand and will allow it to attract new customers in the future. Market participants say that in the future, a credit card should become a full-fledged universal tool for payment. But it is unlikely that anyone will be able to repeat the experience of the Bank of Moscow.

Ortega returned to the presidency of Nicaragua The victory of the 60-year-old leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) Daniel Ortega in the first round of Sunday's presidential elections in Nicaragua is no longer in doubt. He received at least 38% of the popular vote. This is enough for the former revolutionary leader, who this time ran for election under the slogans of preserving private property and adherence to a market economy, to return to the presidency after January 10.

The Lesnevskys want to return to the Russian media market with a humanitarian mission The founders and first owners of the REN TV channel, Irena and Dmitry Lesnevsky, who lost their brainchild to Severstal last summer, are returning to the Russian media market. And in a somewhat new role - publishers.

Jews and Muslims are united by the fight against gays Jerusalem is in turmoil. Orthodox Jews, more than a third of the city's 706,000 population, are protesting against the Pride Parade, a march of sexual minorities scheduled for Friday. Religious Jews set fire to trash cans and block streets, throw rocks at buses and fight with police. Rabbis are trying to pacify fanatics by calling for nonviolent protests. However, they also say that Jerusalem is not the place for gay pride parades.

Sometimes it's good to have some fun and create some mischievous madness. Well, at least heed the offer of a musician friend to go to his concert in a city that is 200 km from Moscow.

Voting machines malfunctioned in the US Yesterday, US citizens re-elected the entire House of Representatives, a third of the senators and 36 of the 50 state governors. A third of voters cast their ballots using the new machines, and in the early hours, multiple equipment failures were reported in the states of Indiana and Ohio.

Poles received advice from a superpower A scandal broke out in Warsaw yesterday, which seriously darkened relations between strategic partners and military allies - Poland and the United States.

50 years ago, the operation of Soviet troops in Hungary began Protests against Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany are still ongoing in Hungary, but the number of protesters is steadily decreasing - yesterday there were 30 people standing in one of the squares in Budapest, while thousands gathered in September and October.

Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov called on Chinese investors to invest more actively in the Russian timber industry Russia intends to more actively attract Chinese investment, including within the framework of special economic zones (SEZs) being created in our country.