In the city of Zeya, the Amur Region, a 13-year-old schoolgirl hanged her, Interfax reports. The Amur Regional Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation conducts a pre -investigation verification in connection with this incident. The girl was discovered hanged in the toilet of the apartment where she lived. A message about the detection of the girl’s body was received by the Investigative Committee on the evening of October 12.

The state will in every possible way contribute and create conditions so that a person of any faith in Russia can freely perform a service, and a productive dialogue is underway between different religions, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a press conference following negotiations with Germany President Christian Wolf.

In the Volgograd region, preparations are underway for the opening of the public reception of President Dmitry Medvedev. The first reception of citizens in it will be held on December 1, Volgograd governor Anatoly Brovko. Meanwhile, in the region, the implementation of one of the main presidential projects related to the allocation of housing to veterans of the war bends.

On Thursday, a contract will be signed for the first in the history of the Russian Grand Prix in the Formula-1 Auto Rights, the Kommersant newspaper claims with reference to two independent high-ranking sources. The right to hold the Royal Races from 2014 to 2020 will receive the Krasnodar Territory. Signatures under the document will be delivered by the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev and the General Promoter of Formula 1 Bernie Ecclestone.

British writer Howard Jacobson was declared a laureate of the British Buker Prize for 2010 - one of the most prestigious prizes in the field of literature. The jury preferred his novel “Fincler's question” (or “Fincler”) (The Finkler Question), ITAR-TASS reports. The award ceremony took place in Gildhold, the town hall of London City.

State Duma deputy Andrei Lugovoi (LDPR faction) believes that the British justice should either submit serious evidence of his guilt in connection with the murder of the former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, or abandon the persistent requirements for the issuance of a Russian citizen.

In the absurd and provocative, they call reports of a number of Russian media in Minsk that the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko could discuss the possibility of creating autocephaly of the Belarusian Orthodox Church with the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew during a recent visit to Turkey.

The cost of laying the South Stream gas pipeline can surpass 10 billion euros, said the Executive Director of the project Marseille Kramer, speaking on Wednesday at the Oil & Money International Conference in London. "Everyone is now asking the question of what the cost of the project will be. It will be what it will be. Someone speaks about the figure of 8 billion euros.

Details of the meeting of President Dmitry Medvedev with rock musicians in the metropolitan “Rhythm-Bliz-cafe”, as well as the reason why DDT leader Yuri Shevchuk, known for what is happening in the country, was not invited to the event, became known.

The basketball players of the Moscow CSKA lost 85:96 in a friendly meeting club of the Miami Hit National Basketball Association as part of the North America tour. The superstar "Miami" did not get victory without a fight. In the first match, Euroleague American Tour CSKA confidently leaded in the first half, forced LeBron James and Chris Bosch to lay out in full for a fracture and kept the intrigue in the match until the last minutes.

The average size of a bribe in Russia for a year increased by one third - up to 30.5 thousand rubles, law enforcement agencies say. At the same time, the effectiveness of the fight against corruption became lower than earlier, at the coordination meeting of law enforcement agencies of the country dedicated to the fight against corruption, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said.

The aircraft of the American airline Delta, who was traveling from Moscow to New York, had to be imprisoned in Sweden - in the Stockholm airport Arlanda. The reason for the forced landing was the violent behavior of one of the passengers who delivered the rest of the inconvenience, ITAR-TASS reports. The pilots considered that his behavior could threaten the safety of further flight, and requested landing at the Swedish airport, writes Unt.Se.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev rushes the government to correct the Forest Code, which he had previously called unfit . “I instructed the government to conduct an inventory of forest legislation, the work was not completed, but certain terms have already expired,” said the head of state quoted by ITAR -TASS. Medvedev held a video conference to eliminate the consequences of fires.

The Russian spy Anna Chapman, perhaps, used a fake passport for her secret activity, the information for which was taken from documents of a resident of Ireland, volunteer of the charity organization "to Russia with love", Irish media reported. According to the press, the police launched an investigation on the alleged use of information from several Irish passports by members of the Russian agent network, which was exposed in the United States in July, the Financial Express newspaper reports.

Apple has received a patent for SMS content filtering technology that allows parents to identify “undesirable” words and expressions in their children’s messages. The technology allows you to control both incoming and outgoing messages, reports Ruformator with reference to TechCrunch . Apple filed a patent application entitled "Managing Text Communication on Personal Communications Devices" with the US Patent Office in 2008. The company received the patent on October 12, 2010.