A 14-year-old teenager who raped and brutally killed his second cousin, a 9-year-old girl, was detained in Zaporozhye, Magnolia-TV reports. According to the prosecutor of the Pologovsky district of the Zaporozhye region Alexander Revut, the investigation proved the guilt of the teenager in this terrible crime committed on September 23. The teenager went to the same school with his sister.

23 Palestinians were injured on Wednesday morning during an IDF operation in the Gaza Strip. According to Ha'aretz, the military destroyed the home of Fatah activist Mahmoud al-Qaseir, who was involved in the attacks at the Kissufim intersection in April. Then three Israelis died. The safety of the operation in Rafah was ensured by 25 tanks introduced there early in the morning.

The main Internet servers responsible for navigating the Internet were attacked at about 01:00 Moscow time. According to the Washington Times, the attack against 13 servers lasted for about an hour, but most Internet users did not feel its results. According to experts, the attack was to redirect users, regardless of their requests, to the main servers, and thereby cause the entire system to crash.

In Chuvashia, near the village of Yungaposi, Morgaushsky district, on Wednesday morning, a Mercedes-Benz bus of the Cheboksary travel company Yakor, heading to St. Petersburg, had an accident. As a result, one person died and six were injured. According to RIA Novosti, in the conditions of snowfall on the descent, the 43-year-old driver lost control, the bus slid into a ditch and overturned. There were 19 passengers in the cabin. The driver himself was not hurt.

The State Duma on Wednesday adopted the new Civil Procedure Code of the Russian Federation (CPC) in the third, final reading, Interfax reports. The current Code of Civil Procedure was adopted in 1964 and does not meet the realities of modern life. The new CPC will come into effect on February 1, 2003. This document radically changes the entire system of civil justice. In particular, the institution of people's assessors is abolished when courts consider claims in civil cases.

The US and British air forces again bombed two air defense facilities in a non-flying zone in southern Iraq, AP reports. This is the third bombardment of Iraqi territory this week. The air strikes were carried out in response to ground fire from the vicinity of al-Jarrah (145 km southeast of Baghdad) and Tallil (260 km southeast of Baghdad).

The KGB of Belarus states that official Minsk regards the activities of Boris Nemtsov "as interference in the internal affairs of Belarus with damage to the national and state interests of the country." This was stated to RIA "Novosti" in the Center for Information and Public Relations of the KGB of Belarus.

On Wednesday morning, the schools of Washington and its suburbs opened in high security mode, according to the Washington Post. During the lessons, schools are locked and children are not allowed out of them even during breaks. All lessons that are usually held on the street have been canceled or moved to classrooms. Many parents have decided that both at home and at school their children will be equally dangerous.

An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale hit Alaska . The epicenter of the earthquake was in the Denali National Park area. So far, there are no reports of casualties or damage. The epicenter is too far from the sea to cause a tsunami or a strong seismic wave, but the tremors were felt within a radius of 560 kilometers. The earthquake was recorded at 3.27 local time.

http://www.aferizm.ru/images/berzovski_big.jpg If Boris Berezovsky did not know how to create information reasons and needed competent image makers, he would be worth calling the administration of the President of Russia or at least with the General Prosecutor's Office. The premiere of the film "Oligarch" has just taken place - and about Berezovsky (and about the screenwriter of the film by Julia Dubov) spoke on all cultural pages even in non -playing newspapers.

Energy ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States intend to create an energy council of the CIS. Minister of Energy of Ukraine Vitaliy Gaiduk, speaking at a meeting of leaders of the CIS fuel and energy complex on Wednesday in Moscow, proposed the creation of an energy council to coordinate actions, which would regularly consider pressing energy issues. The participants of the meeting supported his initiative.

On Wednesday, the State Duma adopted in the second reading an amendment to the Family Code. According to the parliamentary correspondent of Graney, by a majority of votes, the deputies decided to state the second paragraph of paragraph 2 of Article 13 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation in the following wording: 14 to 16 years of age with the consent of parents, adoptive parents or guardian in the presence of special circumstances (pregnancy or childbirth)".

Vladimir Pronin, head of the Moscow police department, said that a new version of the "Interception" plan had been developed, Gazeta.Ru reports. According to the old plan, the car with the criminals was searched for by all the patrol cars of the traffic police and the police located in the district where the crime occurred. Thus, there are 50-60 wanted cars per day for every policeman.

68% of the polled citizens of Ukraine agree with the opinion that there is political censorship in the news programs on television and in the country's press. According to Interfax, this was shown by a poll conducted on October 4-13 by the public organization "Ukrainian Democratic Circle", the expert council of which is headed by sociologist Sergei Makeev.

Grani.ru collage So far, an obscure incident occurred on Wednesday in Minsk with the leaders of the ATP Boris Nemtsov and Irina Khakamada. According to RIA Novosti, they were not allowed to participate in the conference "Belarus - Russia: New Integration", detained, brought to the Minsk -1 airport and sent to Moscow. They had to fly to Moscow at 13.10, which was detained.