Russia needs more stringent laws so that its citizens do not start more uprisings against Moscow and do not overwhelm foreigners. The head of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev is sure of this. Speaking in parliament, he left no doubt that Russian citizens work for foreign intelligence services and help organize "orange revolutions" in the countries of the former Soviet Union, as well as spy in Russia, writes Frankfurter Rundschau . President Vladimir Putin believes the same.

The investigation in the case of a pedophile educator was completed by the prosecutor's office of the Service district of Yekaterinburg. Vyacheslav Tokmantsev is accused of corrupting his minor pupils. Tokmantsev in the summer worked as a teacher in a children's camp. The parents of three boys accused him of depraved actions after the children returned home and complained to his parents that the teacher was trying to lie down on them.

About 300 people today took part in the rally "In defense of the rights and national sovereignty of Russia, against the adoption of a package of laws on the collection of personal data on all citizens of the Russian Federation." It took place on the Revolution Square in Moscow, at the monument to Marx.

The State Duma at a plenary session on Wednesday unanimously approved Sergey Ignatiev as chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation for a second term. On November 3, his candidacy was submitted to the Duma in accordance with the law, Russian President Vladimir Putin, recalls Interfax.

11 criminal cases were instituted in the Kuban, including against police officers, as part of the investigation of the crimes of the gang, which robbed and raped students. The investigation began after a letter of students of the North Kuban Humanitarian and Technology Institute was received in the Krasnodar representative office of the Russian newspaper .

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation extended until February 18 next year the investigation in the case of retired Colonel Vladimir Kvachkov, accused of attempted on the head of the RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais. "The Prosecutor General’s Office extended the case until February 18, 2006, and on November 29 the issue of extending the term of detention of my client will be considered in the court," Alevtin Moshansky, lawyer Kvachkova, told Interfax on Wednesday.

After a terrible documentary about the assault on the Iraqi city of El Falluj , shown on the Italian television channel RAI, the Pentagon had to recognize the use of white phosphorus as a deadly weapon, and not just for lighting. White phosphorus is a poison that, when it enters the body, literally burns the skin and flesh to the bones. The use of such "lighting" bombs against civilians violates the UN Convention on some types of ordinary weapons adopted in 1980.

In the west of the United States, 4 Chinese were charged with the theft of secret documents regarding naval weapons. The FBI arrested the 65-year-old Chi Mack and his 56-year-old brother Tai Vanmak, as well as their wives as "agents of a foreign government acting in the United States without prior notice to the Ministry of Justice." The older brother and his wife are naturalized American citizens. The youngest is a citizen of China.

Russian Nikolai Davydenko won a second consecutive victory at the final tournament of the Masters Cup tennis players and entered the semifinals of competitions whose prize fund is about $ 4 million. The Russian, for the first time in his career, participating in the final tournament of the season, on Wednesday in the match of the second round in the Golden Group with a score of 6: 3, 6: 4 defeated the Argentinean Gaston Gaudio.

Helmut Schmidt (SDPG party) is now the most popular of all seven federal chancellors who led the post -war Germany: 28% of respondents gave their sympathies to him. This is evidenced by the data of the last survey, published on the environment conducted by the influential sociological institute "Emnid". Schmidt led the country's government in 1974-1982, taking the baton from his social democratic predecessor Willy Brandt (fourth place with 15% of the respondents).

In the Smolensk region, a suspect of involvement in an explosion, who thundered on Monday evening in the Orthodox Chapel, was detained, a source in the regional law enforcement agencies told Interfax today. According to him, the detainee is a local resident, born in 1969. The interlocutor of the agency specified that this is a previously convicted man who has been living in the field of the last two years. The motives of the crime are set.

In Moscow, the independent deputy of the State Duma Vladimir Ryzhkov stole a jacket with his official certificate. According to Interfax, a source in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, the theft occurred at about 15:00 on Tuesday in one of the cafes in the chamberlain lane. According to the victim, the unknown abducted a jacket from him, in which there was a deputy’s certificate and the keys to his office.

The administration of the Sakhalin Region expressed discontent in connection with the fact of the emergence of educational publications for schoolchildren and applicants, on the cover of which the Russian map is depicted schematically without the Kuril Islands.

In India, in one of the state hospitals, the patient died from the fact that the ants ate her eyes. A 55-year-old woman named Guri Rani Hakraborty, suffering from diabetes, was restored after surgery. When large black ants began to attack her at night on Sunday, she began to call for help, but the nurses who arrived asked her to calm down because the pain after the infection is completely normal, Medindia.com reports.

The Moscow City Duma at a meeting on Wednesday adopted in the first reading amendments to the charter of Moscow, excluding the position of vice-mayor. As the plenipotentiary representative of the mayor of the capital in the Moscow City Duma Anatoly Petrov said at the meeting, in Moscow there is no need for Vice-mayor. “Vice-mayor never had his own powers.