A criminal case has been sent to the court of the Tula region against a student of a cadet boarding school who brutally beat his classmate, as a result of which he became disabled, Olga Bobrova, senior assistant to the head of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the region, told Interfax. According to her, a 17-year-old boy is accused of intentionally causing grievous harm to the health of his friend.

The ranking of the world's leading universities (QS World University Rankings 2012) in Russia, published earlier this week, immediately became the subject of lively discussion. Tomsk State University dropped to 580th place from 474th in 2011 - ah-ah, how bad! Tomsk Polytechnic University, on the contrary, rose from 607th place to 567th - ah-ah, how good! Kazan Federal University - dropped 60 places down - oh-oh, save me, help me!

Photo: Reuters During the assault on the American consulate in the Libyan city of Bengrai, the ambassador of USA Christopher Stevens and three more employees of the embassy were killed. According to BBC, sources in the Libyan government reported. There is no confirmation of this information from official sources yet. The circumstances of the death of diplomatic workers have not yet been clarified.

Photo: Reuters Apple introduced its new smartphone in San Francisco. A few hours before the start of the presentation, it became known that the device was called the iPhone 5. Photo: Reuters According to the vice president of the company Fila Schiller, the smartphone case is made of glass and aluminum. The thickness of the case is 7.6 mm, which is 18% thinner than the predecessor. The new apparatus weighs only 112 grams - 20% lighter than the previous model.

A decision on the issue of awarding Grozny the title “City of Military Glory” is expected in the near future. 70 years ago, the North Caucasus became the scene of fierce battles with Nazi troops. This battle is one of the largest events of the Great Patriotic War. Hitler's Germany sought to solve a strategic problem in this direction: to capture the cities of Grozny and Baku - Soviet centers of oil production and oil refining and leave the Red Army without fuel for aviation and armored vehicles.

Today representatives of the Chinese Academy of Social Research visited the Plekhanov House. Chinese scientists wanted to get an idea of ​​the current state of Marxist science in Russia. Russian Marxists stubbornly wondered why the Chinese came to our provincial Putingrad-on-Marsh, but they welcomed the guests cordially, telling the Chinese about their difficult life.

The Russian Weightlifting Federation, implementing the decision of the Russian anti-doping agency, decided to disqualify eight athletes for two years, Interfax reports. Ivan Tarakin, Roman Chepik, Azamat Dzhioev, Elena Karelina, Alexander Kibanov, Ignat Chemerkin, Anna Konyakina and Elena Sukhar were disqualified.

The head of Rospotrebnadzor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, believes that the retirement age in Russia needs to be raised, Interfax reports. “We generally need to raise the retirement age, because we have no one to work in the country. We are talking about economic growth, but our army guys are already pensioners at 45 years old: a healthy guy, and he is a pensioner,” Onishchenko said at a press conference in Interfax on Wednesday, September 12.

The recording of the DVR camera in the traffic police car, where a protocol was drawn up for the rector of the Church of Elijah the Prophet, abbot Timothy (Alexey Podobedov), who was involved in an accident, was “destroyed by a virus, ” Interfax reports. During a meeting of the Zamoskvoretsky Magistrate Court of Moscow on Wednesday, September 12, the judge announced the answer from the traffic police, according to which the video was “destroyed by a virus” on the day of the accident.

The door to the sewing workshop in Yegoryevsk near Moscow, where 14 workers died in a fire on Tuesday, was closed from the outside, LifeNews reports, citing a source in law enforcement. A major fire in a sewing workshop in Yegoryevsk, which claimed the lives of 14 people, could have had other consequences if the guest workers locked in the premises could have reported the emergency in time.

Three Perm businessmen, owners of a local driving school, used threats and fraud to take possession of the apartments of orphanage graduates and sold them, thus receiving funds to develop their own business, reports the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Perm Territory. “A criminal case has been opened under Article 159 (“Fraud”) and Article 179 (“Force to complete a transaction or refuse it”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

" On the air of the program "Special Correspondent", shown on the Russia-1 channel on September 11, the former head of the investigative team in the Pussy Riot case called the members of the group "demons." According to the law enforcement officer, the plans of the punk performers sentenced to two years were to settle in the Russian Federation revolution. A.

On Wednesday, September 12, an An-28 plane made an emergency landing in the north of Kamchatka. 10 people died, Interfax reports, citing the press service of the Kamchatka Territory government. The plane was operating flight No. 251 on the route Yelizovo - Palana. There were 14 people on board - 2 crew members, 12 passengers, including two children. The plane made an emergency landing 5 minutes from the airport, near the village of Palana in northern Kamchatka.

Huntsmen were forced to shoot a wild bear roaming the streets of the Bashkir city of Sibay, the press service of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs told Interfax on Wednesday. According to the department, on the night of Saturday, September 8, the Sibay duty station received a message that a bear was walking around the city. The police, who went in search of the animal, found it on the territory of the telephone exchange.

An explosion occurred at an industrial enterprise in the city of Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk region, one employee was hospitalized, reports the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the region. “On September 11, an explosion occurred in the production workshop of an industrial enterprise while employees were carrying out one of the technological operations,” the message says.