Today in Russia, state interventions in the grain market begin. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, by the morning of Monday, more than a thousand hundred companies were accredited at the auction, which offered the state almost 7.4 million tons of grain. Earlier it was reported that 9.5 billion rubles will be allocated for the purchase of grain in the intervention fund in this agricultural year. For the first time, grain interventions in Russia were held in 2001.

The British authorities have not yet provided Russia with the necessary documents in the case of the involvement of Andrei Lugovoi in the murder in London in 2006 of a former employee of the Russian special services Alexander Litvinenko. This was announced by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press confront in Moscow following negotiations with his British colleague David Miliband.

Consumer prices for automobile gasoline on average in Russia for a week from October 19 to 25 have not changed, the Federal Statistics Service said. Minor changes affected the gasoline of the AI-92 brand (fell by 0.1 percent). On average, compared to the end of September, fuel fell by 0.3 percent, relative to the beginning of the year - rose by 10.2 percent, Rosstat notes.

The Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court sentenced to the long time the guilty of the murder of the head of the city Union of Theater Workers Galina Sorokina and her daughter. Three young people in the dock, they received from 22 to 24 years in prison and should, by court order, pay a million rubles to the relatives of a woman as compensation. Sorokina and her daughter Maria were killed on March 5, 2009.

A military-paramedic ship, which is called "New York", came to the New York Haban. During its construction, seven and a half tons of steel were used from structures destroyed by terrorists in 2001 of the towers of the World Trade Center. This is reported by Radio Liberty correspondent Vladimir Morozov. On the Hudson River, the ship stopped near that part of the lower Manhattan, where the towers of the World Trade Center destroyed by terrorists stood.

British Foreign Minister David Milibend will continue negotiations in Moscow with Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov today. The ministers are discussing urgent international problems, in particular, the situation in Afghanistan, the Iranian nuclear program, as well as issues of bilateral relations. The UK remains an important international partner in Moscow and occupies one of the first places in investment in Russia, ”said Andrei Nesterenko, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Vladimir Kara-Murza: The heads of the foreign policy departments of Russia and Great Britain said according to the results of bilateral negotiations that the parties failed to come to a consensus in the case of the former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko. British Foreign Minister David Miliband insists on the need to extradite a suspect in the murder of Litvinenko Andrei Lugovoi in the UK. Here, according to his conviction, should undergo a trial.

Lviv residents are saved from influenza in the traditional way: vodka The Ministry of Health of Ukraine confirmed the death of 53 people from the influenza epidemic. The emergency forced President Yushchenko asked international help. Prime Minister Tymoshenko personally met a plane with medicines from Switzerland tonight.

Mikhail Zlatkovsky. "How to live on?" The news of the fall of the ratings of V.V. Putin and D.A. Medvedev destroyed the artist’s idea of the structure of the world.

The presence of a mask saving from influenza does not interfere with a pleasant leisure. To Ukraine, where the H1N1 flu epidemic was announced, the necessary medicines began to act to combat the outbreak of the disease. Politicians and experts believe that the influenza epidemic will influence the presidential campaign in the country. For three weeks in Ukraine, mass events are prohibited.

Mikhail Manevich In St. Petersburg, the most important step was taken towards the disclosure of the murder of vice-governor Mikhail Manevich , committed on August 18, 1997. Subordinate Yuri Shutov, serving a life imprisonment, admitted to the murder of Mlyan. Law enforcement agencies of St. Petersburg received confirmation of one of the main versions of the murder of the vice-governor Mikhail Mansevich. In 1997, the so -called "group of Zaripov", one of the foremen of Yuri Shutov, was detained.

By the beginning of November, in Russia was collected in bunker weight - that is, before drying and cleaning - 101 million tons of grain, said Minister of Agriculture Elena Skrynnik. According to the agency, the crop is removed from 92.5 percent of the sown area. The average yield of grain this year is still 23.8 centners per hectare, which is 4.8 percent less than a year earlier (25.2 centners per hectare).

In the world today, for the first time, the day of the fight against pneumonia, announced by the UN, is being held. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization began the campaign to collect about $ 40 million, which will go to treatment from this disease in dozens of developing countries, mainly in Asia and Africa. Experts call pneumonia the "main killer" of children under the age of 5 years.

Oil export duties from Russia from November 1 reduced to 231.2 dollars per ton. This is 9.5 dollars or almost 4 percent less than the rates in October. From the beginning of the month, the export fee for light oil products is $ 168.1 per ton, to dark - 90.5 dollars per ton. The export fee for oil is reviewed monthly on the basis of monitoring its value in the world market.