in samara , the acting minister of transport and roads of the region, ivan pivkin, was arrested.came involved in a case of excess official powers. according to some reports , pivkin participated in a criminal cartel with the distribution of tenders for the repair and construction of roads. according to the deputy. state duma alexander khinshtein in his telegram channel, contracts were allegedly concluded with convenient contractors, who in turn transferred contributions to pivkin. earlier , searches were carried out in his office and home; security forces confiscated the necessary documents and memory cards. investigators are looking into the circumstances of the mass poisoning in russia, the largest outbreak of botulism in the last 30 years. years, this is a serious disease that is associated with damage. nervous system, the cause was ready-made salads with tuna beans, there were hundreds of victims, where they ordered the food, who had already been detained in a high-profile case, and what kind of barrels of poison were found at the production site, fyodor eliseev found out. in