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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 other day it was announced that the Russian Government plans to increase the minimum wage (minimum wage). According to Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs Olga Golodets, this increase should occur on January 1, 2013. It is planned that the minimum wage will increase from 4.6 to 5.2 thousand rubles.

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.

Here is an article that was published in the so-called “public political newspaper” of the Abinsk region of the Krasnodar Territory. Here is a “legendary” article for the Abinsk region: I wonder why they wrote this article. Everything is encrypted, just like in a detective story. The newspaper “Voskhod” didn’t write anything better, because it is not perceived as social and political anyway, they get their information from the Net.

Text: Anastasia Petrova "A Just Russia" has decided on its candidate for mayor of Khimki near Moscow - on September 11, the party nominated the leader of the Moscow region "Socialist Revolutionaries" Alexander Romanovich. Romanovich is known for not allowing his comrade-in-arms, Gennady Gudkov, to become members of the bureau of the Moscow Socialist-Revolutionaries.

The Shadrinsky District Court (Kurgan Region) handed down a sentence with a real sentence to a woman for falsely reporting an impending explosion, the press service of the regional prosecutor's office reported on Wednesday.

Photo: ITAR-TASS Dmitry Medvedev, in a speech in front of the Penza branch of the United Russia party, unexpectedly expressed his attitude to the sentence in the Pussy Riot case: “The imprisonment is a very strict, terrible responsibility. And what happened, that the famous group of girls has already been in prison for a long time, in itself, regardless of the sentence, is a very serious punishment for all of them perfect, regardless of what position we are in.

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.

In the Karmaskalinsky region of Bashkiria, a large mammoth tusk was discovered at the bottom of the Belaya River, the Institute of Ethnological Research of the Ufa Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences told the Interfax agency. An unusual find on the river bottom at a depth of about 4 meters near the village of Kabakovo was discovered by the president of the Talkas underwater hunting club, Vladimir Ryazanov.