There will be less grain, but you still need to buy it The state is ready to help the grain market stay afloat by buying up surplus grain. The decision on the need for commodity interventions was made at a meeting with Mikhail Kasyanov, which was also attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeev, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Andrei Kozlov and representatives of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and Rosselkhozbank.

Washington attacks Pyongyang “North Korea is a diabolical regime, armed to the teeth,” US Under Secretary of State for International Security and Arms Control John Bolton said in Seoul yesterday.

The Chief Field Marshal of Russia was honored with an exhibition in honor of his 350th anniversary Boris Petrovich Sheremetev was the first Russian count. But this is not the most important thing. Boris Petrovich Sheremetev, as the first chief field marshal, won many battles in the Northern War with Sweden. But this is not the most important thing. Boris Petrovich Sheremetev was received as a diplomat by the most notable European monarchs: Augustus II in Poland, Leopold I in Vienna.

The Main Military Prosecutor's Office (GVP) began a mass inspection of all border detachments of the Federal Border Guard Service of Russia. Representatives of the prosecutor's office do not hide that the audit is caused by the increasing cases of desertion and murders among border guards, and the last straw was the recent incident in Ingushetia, where two soldiers of the Nazran border detachment, while on duty to protect the state border, shot eight of their colleagues.

Kaliningrad is preparing for a European siege By the end of the week, a report on the Kaliningrad problem, prepared jointly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the presidential special representative on the issue of the Russian enclave in the Baltic, Dmitry Rogozin, will be placed on President Putin’s desk.

Football. English Championship. 3rd round. " Aston Villa" - "Manchester City" - 1:0, "Blackburn" - "Liverpool" - 2:2, "Everton" - "Birmingham" - 1:1, "Southampton" - " Chelsea - 1:1, Leeds - Sunderland - 0:1, Arsenal - West Bromwich - 5:2, Charlton - Tottenham - 0:1 . Leading: Arsenal, Tottenham, Liverpool - 7 points each. Leeds and Liverpool missed their chances to top the table.

Rostov authorities stimulate wheat exports Grain, which has sharply fallen in price on the domestic market, is forcing the authorities of the Rostov region to take extraordinary measures today in order to somehow correct the price situation that is unfavorable for local farmers. Rostov officials are confident that grain purchase prices can now only be saved by exports. In particular, it is planned to de-bureaucratize the procedure for exporting grain abroad from Don ports as much as possible.

The authorities believe that this is the work of the president’s “enemies” Late in the evening of August 28 in Almaty, a well-known Kazakh journalist, editor of the newsletter “Human Rights in Kazakhstan and the World,” Sergei Duvanov, was brutally beaten at the door of his apartment. Unknown people attacked him when he was returning from work. The blows with rubber truncheons were applied professionally, to the head, kidneys, liver, and groin area...

The chief bailiff of the Supreme Court of Chechnya, Sharon Akhmarov, was killed yesterday in Grozny. According to the Republican Department of Internal Affairs, at the intersection of Chicherin and Chernyshevsky streets in the Leninsky district of the city, in front of numerous witnesses, an unknown man opened fire from a machine gun at Mr. Akhmarov’s car. As a result, the official died on the spot. The criminal escaped.

Attorney General reminds governors who owns what The federal government intends to complete the process of distributing property and powers between itself and the regions. And he firmly reminds governors, as well as federal departments, that the deadline allowed by law for bringing all agreements between the center and the regions “into compliance” has expired (formally, July 30).

The period for additional applications has ended in Russia Russian clubs traditionally make their biggest acquisitions in the last days before the application deadline. The current period is no exception. The most unexpected thing in recent days was the appearance in Dynamo Moscow of 21-year-old Senegalese forward Pap Thiaw, remembered by Russian fans for his performances for the Lviv at the World Championships in Japan and Korea.

The capital's fire service was alerted yesterday to reports of a fire in one of the domes of St. Basil's Cathedral on Red Square. Several crews were sent to the site, however, their help was not needed - the fire near the Kremlin walls never took place. As it turned out, a team of workers was carrying out repair work under the dome, and a spark from a welding machine ignited construction debris.

Moroccan athlete Brahim Boulami, who set a new world record in the 3000m steeplechase at the recent Golden League competition in Zurich, may be disqualified. A certain “prohibited substance”, in other words, doping, was found in the runner’s blood. Now Bulami, in no hurry to make any statements, is waiting for repeated tests. It is noteworthy that information about the detection of doping in the athlete’s blood was received by the International Athletics Federation from Moroccan colleagues.

In the upcoming friendly match of the Brazilian national team, the pentacompeons will be led by the famous coach Mario Zagalo. But this does not mean at all that Zagalo will lead the national team in the future. This is simply the Brazilian Football Federation's way of expressing gratitude to Zagalo for his past achievements. The Brazilian team will receive a new head coach in February next year.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) may decide to increase production by 500-750 thousand barrels per day as a compromise between Saudi Arabia, which advocates increasing production, and other cartel members (Iran, Kuwait, Venezuela and Indonesia ) who don't want it. A representative of the OPEC secretariat in Vienna told REUTERS .