The Indian Olympic Committee intends to raise the issue of ensuring the safety of athletes and spectators at Olympic sports competitions with the organizers of the Summer Olympic Games in London. The reason for serious proceedings may be an incident that occurred during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics.

The Union of Mechanical Engineers of Russia expects that the law on the recycling fee for agricultural machinery will be adopted by the State Duma in the next two to three months after the start of the autumn session. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to the deputy head of the Union, Vladimir Gutenev. According to him, such a bill has already been drawn up, although it has a slightly larger name.

Russian sailors celebrate their professional holiday - Navy Day. Traditionally, it falls on the last Sunday in July. The crews of Russian ships and submarines were congratulated by Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Vice Admiral Viktor Chirkov, who wished the sailors good health and success in combat training.

The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov, speaking with journalists, said that the losses in the first half of the year reported by the French concern PSA Peugeot Citroen will not negatively affect the production of cars at the company’s plant in Russia.

India has successfully tested the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, developed jointly by Indian and Russian specialists at the BrahMos Aerospace joint venture. reports this RIA Novosti . According to the manufacturer, the purpose of the test was to test the operation of a number of new systems installed on the rocket. The tests took place at the Chandipur missile test site in the eastern Indian state of Orissa.

The head of the Federal Police of Germany, Matthias Seger, and his two deputies may be dismissed due to intradepartmental conflicts and dubious connections with the authorities of Belarus. reports this Interfax with reference to the German newspaper Tages Spiegel. In turn, another German newspaper, Deutsche Welle, reports that information about the upcoming resignation of Seger and his deputies Wolfgang Lohmann and Michael Fres has already been confirmed by the German government.

The Rusvietpetro joint venture, owned by the Russian Zarubezhneft and the Vietnamese Petrovietnam, has commissioned a third oil field in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug as part of the project for the development of blocks of the Central Khoreyver Uplift (CKR). reports this Interfax . The President of Vietnam, Truong Tan Sang, took part in the ceremonial launch of the field in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

Vietnamese President Truong Tan Shang, during his visit to Russia on Sunday, said at a press conference in Naryan-Mar that his country is seriously considering the possibility of joining the Customs Union. reports this RIA Novosti . “We discussed accelerating the start of negotiations on signing a free trade agreement,” the Vietnamese president told reporters.

Cyprus expressed its disagreement with some proposals of the “troika” of international creditors (European Commission, ECB and IMF) to reduce government spending. This was announced by one of the ministers of the Cypriot government, Neoklis Silikiotis. At the end of June this year, the Mediterranean island state was forced to seek financial assistance from international financial institutions in order to try to recapitalize banks affected by the restructuring of Greek government debt.

Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation Maxim Topilin, speaking at a meeting dedicated to the state program for the development of the North Caucasian Federal District in the field of social security in Karachay-Cherkessia, said that citizens applying for a decent pension must have a certain length of “legal” employment, and changing the formula for calculating pensions requires detailed study. reports this RIA Novosti .

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking with journalists, told them that Russia is not a close friend of the Syrian regime. Moreover, he denied information that Moscow is ready to provide asylum to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. reports this Interfax . “Someone started this “canard” that Russia is ready to take Assad to itself, that Russia is ready for this, and Assad is ready for this. So let’s attack Russia,” Lavrov said.

The United Russia party believes that the statements of opposition blogger Alexei Navalny and his appeals to the Presidential Administration, directed against the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, are a kind of diversionary maneuver. In this way, the oppositionist, according to Sergei Zheleznyak, vice-speaker of the State Duma from the United Russia faction, is trying to divert public attention from the scandals that are associated with his own activities.

What do Riedel glasses actually do with the drinks they contain? I wanted to write about Riedel glasses for a long time, but somehow the opportunity never presented itself. Or rather, I imagined it, but not the right one: from time to time I came across wines in some random Riedel glasses, I either liked the wines or not, but it was always a one-time experience.

To make a world event a common cause, you need to involve literally everyone in it The biggest skeptics were ready to cry yesterday at the way London presented the XXX Olympic Games to the world. Several tens of thousands of people in the stadium, the same number across London on big screens, a television audience of a billion - the opening show, as promised, showed the best of Britain, the Best of British brand.

Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland have asked the European Commission to respond appropriately to the growing flow of people coming to the EU from neighboring eastern countries (mainly Russia), for which a visa-free regime may be introduced in the future. reports this Interfax . A corresponding appeal to the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmstrom, was signed last week by the ministers of the three Baltic countries and Finland.