The head of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Elena Skrynnik, said that the department expects this year’s grain harvest at 60 million tons in the worst case, and approximately 65-67 million tons in the best case. However, such reserves, in her opinion, should be enough for the country. In addition, she added that due to drought in some regions the sowing of winter varieties will be reduced, but then the sowing of spring varieties will be increased by approximately 30%.

Benjamin Netanyahu is against interrogating participants in the hijacking of a humanitarian convoy Yesterday, the Israeli authorities threatened to refuse cooperation with the UN international commission, which was created to investigate the circumstances of the seizure of the Free Gaza humanitarian convoy by Israeli special forces.

The head of the Tuvan opposition faces new charges The criminal case of the former speaker of the Tuvan parliament Vasily Oyun is accreting with new charges. The investigation suspects the deputy of beating a shepherd who allegedly stole sheep. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation established that the underage shepherd's assistant also fell under the hot hand of the politician. This became the basis for bringing new charges of beatings against Vasily Oyun.

Today, August 11, Skoda Auto AS (a division of Volkswagen AG) announced that it is temporarily suspending vehicle production at its main plant in Mladá Boleslav in the Czech Republic due to a shortage of components caused by floods in the country. A Skoda representative said that due to the shutdown, the company will not produce about 1 thousand Fabia and Octavia models on Thursday and Friday. The company intends to restore the plant to normal operation on Monday, August 16.

Background 232 1 min. ... Since 1995, the brokerage company Alfa Capital Ukraine has been operating on the Ukrainian market. In 2006, the company's business was integrated into the general business of working with shares and capital markets of Alfa Bank. At the end of 2004, the Russian investment group Renaissance Capital opened an office in Kyiv.

Today, August 11, it became known that in northern Peru, as a result of a bus falling into an abyss, 22 people were killed and 27 were injured of varying degrees of severity. According to the report, the incident occurred on Tuesday when a Kurrungo SAC bus was traveling on the Sayapullo-Trujillo route. At this time there were more than 50 passengers on the bus. The bus driver lost control, drove off the road and fell into a 200-meter abyss.

The driver of the KrAZ truck, according to preliminary data, was the culprit of a major accident in the Irkutsk region, in which six people died, the press service of the regional traffic police department reports. On Tuesday morning, on the highway Irkutsk - the village of Ust-Uda, at the turnoff to the village of Urik, a KrAZ truck and a Toyota Noah minibus collided. As a result of the accident, six people were killed and three were injured.

4K 1 min. ... As stated in the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, the majority of prisoners in Russian pre-trial detention centers and colonies have serious illnesses. As the department explains, the whole point is insufficient financial support for penitentiary medicine. Based on the results of the inspection of places of detention, the Prosecutor General's Office made a presentation to the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN).

President of Kyrgyzstan Roza Otunbaeva transferred all ministries, administrative departments and regional administrations of the country to a special operating mode. The authorities fear destabilization of the situation in the republic, the activation of extremists and the repetition of mass unrest. Meanwhile, another rally is taking place in Osh against the introduction of OSCE police forces into Kyrgyzstan.

Sungari waters with possible contamination are already on Russian territory Yesterday, water from the Chinese Songhua River, into which more than 7.1 thousand barrels of chemicals fell a week ago, approached the Russian border. As Kommersant was told yesterday by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Khabarovsk Territory, water is expected to reach Khabarovsk on August 13–14.

Today, August 11, it became known that a new drug-resistant infection has begun to spread in India and Pakistan. According to British doctors, NDM-1 infection is not cured by the most powerful known antibiotics. Doctors first encountered this problem last year, when they began to receive patients who had recently returned from India and Pakistan. Currently, cases of the disease have also been recorded in the USA, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands. Based on materials from the BBC

173 1 min. ... Chairman of the Board of Rosbank Vladimir Golubkov turns 44 today Mikhail Alekseev, Chairman of the Board of UniCredit Bank, congratulates him: — Dear Vladimir, I sincerely congratulate you on your next milestone. Time is flying faster now, and it’s scary to think how many years we’ve known each other.

Yesterday, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan held a meeting with the heads of retail chains operating in the republic - “Bakhetle-1”, “Edelweiss”, “Ak Bars Torg”, “Perekrestok”, “Real-hypermarket”, “METRO Cash and Carry” , "Wholesaler", "Magnit", as well as Tatpotrebsoyuz.

United Russia decided to refuse support to unpopular leaders Irkutsk United Russia announced that in the municipal elections on October 10 they will refuse to support almost half of the current mayors and will find alternative options for nomination. They claim that they drew conclusions after unsuccessful campaigns in Irkutsk and Bratsk.

As the chairman of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court, Ivan Ovcharuk, told Kommersant yesterday, the courts of the region are tasked with more carefully considering the arrest of persons involved in criminal cases that are being investigated by investigative authorities. “Now there is a problem when arrest is used as a measure of pressure on the accused, since the decision to place them in custody is made by the court, and the investigator himself can cancel it,” he explained.