Princeton University went around Harvard as the best higher educational institution in the United States. This is the result of the newly annual rating of American universities, drawn up by US News & World Report, based on an analysis of 1800 universities and colleges throughout the country. The best humanitarian university in the magazine’s tablet again became Williams College, the RS correspondent reports in New York.

In Baghdad, on Wednesday, during an explosion near the Shiite mosque, at least 35 people died, dozens - were injured. The explosion occurred in the north-west of the Iraqi capital, in the Kasra region. Nobody has taken responsibility for the attack so far. According to the UN, last month, about 800 people became victims of violence in Iraq, despite the fact that about a third of attacks occurred in Baghdad. Concesses of the interfaith conflict are also concerned.

In Moscow, on Wednesday evening, Peter Farber was detained - the son of recently sentenced to seven years in a colony of rural teacher Ilya Farber . According to the OTD-Info website, starting at six o’clock in the evening on Kudrinskaya Square, a series of single pickets took place in support of Ilya Farber , the participants of the action threw black cloaks and put wreaths of barbed wire on their heads.

In the United States, prosecutors on Tuesday sent a civil lawsuit to the court as part of tax evasion scheme, disclosed by the dead lawyer of the Hermitage Capital Foundation Sergei Magnitsky. According to France-Presse, the Federal Prosecutor of the Southern District of New York Prut Bharara, we are talking about the confiscation of six real estate objects in New York, purchased at the funds assigned to fraudulently.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny and State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov are called as witnesses to the Chertanovsky court of Moscow to testify in the case of the nationalist Daniil Konstantinov. According to Echo of Moscow, Navalny collaborated with Konstantinov in the Civil Council a year and a half ago, and Gudkov in the Youth branch of "Fair Russia". The former head of the Moscow Defense League Daniil Konstantinov is suspected of killing 23-year-old Alexei Temnikov.

The former head of the Yukos came in support of the "swamp prisoners" A letter from Mikhail Khodorkovsky was published on the website of the Rosuznik project in support of the prisoners of Swamp business. The former head of the Yukos notes that he understands better than many what the accused in the “swamp case”, faced with the “unscrupulous and merciless judicial legal system” .

In Egypt, on the Sinai Peninsula, the number of dead soldiers increased to six, and another 17 people - 10 military and seven civilians were wounded on Wednesday as a result of explosions. In the city of Rafach, on the border with the gas sector, two mined cars exploded - near the local military intelligence department and near the army checkpoint. According to some reports, the explosions were committed by suicide bombers.

Russia's proposal to organize an international control system for chemical weapons in Syria made it possible to return the crisis in the diplomatic direction. Nevertheless, the war in Syria does not end, it is not clear how exactly what and with what result the UN experts are able to control. The RC is discussing this complex of issues with the Moscow expert in the Arab East Elena Suponina.

For the first time in almost ten years, the composition of companies included in the main exchange index in the United States Dow Jones is significantly changing. Three newcomers in the index are the Goldman Sachs investment bank, VISA credit cards issuer and manufacturer of sportswear and Nike shoes.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny said that the leader of the Moscow Defense League Daniil Konstantinov could not commit the murder of which he was accused. This was announced by Navalny in the Dorogomilovsky court of Moscow, where he was called as a witness - together with the State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov. Konstantinov is accused of killing the fan of Punk rock Alexander Temnikov in December 2011.

The program "Faces to the event" Radio Liberty is a political expert, a leading researcher at the Institute of System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences Andrei Piontkovsky and a former employee of the Russian Presidential Administration, Professor of the NIU-SSE Political scientist Oleg Matveychev. What will be the Kremlin’s reaction to the success of Alexei Navalny in Moscow. Ahead is a controlled surrender of the regime, or an attempt to maintain authoritarianism at all costs?

In Yakutsk, participants in a spontaneous rally against pedophiles tried to break into the building of the investigative department, demanding that they give them a suspect in the rape of a 4-year-old girl. The OMON fighters are pulled to the place of events.

Three more warships of Russia will join the already located in the Mediterranean Sea. This was announced today by ITAR-TASS with reference to the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense. One of them - the Moscow missile cruiser - passed the Gibraltar Strait on September 10 and goes to the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. Following him, the Mediterranean Sea will include a large landing ship "Nikolai Filchenkov" and the shutter ship "Smmety".

The leaders of the three fractions of the State Duma - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Gennady Zyuganov and Sergey Mironov - demanded to recount the votes in the September 8 elections in the Kemerovo and Rostov regions.

On the doors of the hostel in Blagoveshchensk, where we live, a sign has changed. Previously, it was written here "Point of temporary accommodation of citizens", and now - "Point of long accommodation." Those people who were evacuated here at the beginning of the flood will remain for a long time. Their houses are recognized as not subject to restoration, and now the municipality has to find and redeem another housing for them.