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On December 16, the Governor of the Pskov region Andrey Turchak took part in a meeting of the Council at the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North-West Federal District in St. Petersburg. The meeting was held by Ilya Klebanov, Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Northwestern Federal District. Deputies and assistants of the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North-West Federal District, heads of the regions of the North-West of Russia took part in the work of the Council. The Council members discussed the experience of the subjects of the North-West in organizing the procurement of goods under state orders for the performance of work and the provision of services for state and municipal needs, in countering the so-called "domestic corruption". / PAI

On December 15, the first meeting of the Governor of the Pskov region Andrey Turchak with the heads of urban and rural settlements was held in Pushkinskiye Gory. It was attended by the deputy head of the region, head of the administration of the region Maxim Zhavoronkov, deputy governor, head of the State Financial Department of the Pskov region Tatyana Barinova, deputy heads of the region Vera Yemelyanova and Alexander Kotov, as well as heads of municipal districts. The governor of the Pskov region, Andrei Turchak, proposed holding meetings with the heads of urban settlements and volosts once a quarter. / PAI

On December 16-17, employees of the State Department of Education of the Pskov Region, headed by I. O. head Lyubov Ilyina took part in the events organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in Moscow. On December 16, the All-Russian Conference of the Heads of the Executive Authorities of the Subjects of the Russian Federation in charge of education was held at the Academy for Advanced Studies and Professional Retraining of Education Workers. The meeting discussed the draft law "On Education", the new version of which was presented for public discussion on December 1, as well as the mechanisms for the formation and control of modern quality education. On December 17, Lyubov Ilyina and the mathematics methodologist of the Center for Innovative Educational Technologies POIPKRO Lyudmila Zhuravleva took part in the Forum of the Best Teachers of Russia in the Pashkov House. As part of the event, the results of the Year of the Teacher in Russia were summed up and the ceremony of awarding state awards to the best teachers and teams, including those from the Pskov region: in Moscow, the teacher of Russian language and literature of the Usvyatskaya secondary school Natalya Bonadychenko and the primary school teacher of secondary school No. 7 named after V.N. Pushkareva, Ostrovsky District Vera Vikhrova. Andrey Fursenko, Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, congratulated the teachers. / PAI

On December 16, Pskov hosted the international scientific and practical conference “Man. Society. Culture. Communications: social technologies. Problems, Achievements, Prospects for Development, Projects”, organized by the Faculty of Social Technologies of the Pskov State Pedagogical University named after S. M. Kirov. The conference was attended by Armen Mnatsakanyan, Head of the State Department for Social Protection of the Population of the Pskov Region, teachers, specialists, graduate students of the Pedagogical University and higher educational institutions of Petrozavodsk, St. as well as researchers from Germany and the USA. The participants discussed the relevance of scientific developments of social technologies in education, culture, social work, communications, the development of the theory of social technologies and the practical implementation of social technologies in various areas of life. / PAI

On December 16, a round table dedicated to the problem of domestic violence against women was held in the small hall of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies. The participants of the event, organized by the State Department of Justice of the Pskov Region with the support of the Pskov Regional Court, discussed this social phenomenon and real opportunities to resist it. The meeting was attended by Chairman of the Pskov Regional Court Valery Kondratiev and Head of the State Department of Justice of the Pskov Region Sergei Sherstobitov. An analysis of the judicial practice of justices of the peace of the Pskov region in criminal cases related to domestic violence against women was presented. The discussions were held with the participation of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Pskov Region Viktor Ivanov, the Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Pskov Region Dmitry Shakhov, the Chairman of the Pskov City Court Tatyana Sinilova, the Head of the Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for the Pskov Region Alexander Rozov, the Deputy Prosecutor of the Region Sergey Levshakov, the Deputy Head Leonid Burakovsky, head of the department for organizing the activities of district police officers and juvenile affairs, Alexander Novitsky, and Oleg Garkusha, vice-president of the Bar Association of the Pskov Region. / PAI

visited the city of Pärnu (Estonia) On December 13-14, a delegation of the Pskov State Pedagogical University (PSPU) headed by Anatoly Istomin, First Vice-Rector, Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation, . Pedagogical University and Pärnus College intend to cooperate, in particular, to exchange experiences and implement joint projects. / PAI

On December 21, the 9th All-Russian Congress of State Authorities for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments opened in Moscow. The Pskov Region is represented by Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Culture Natalya Sergeeva and Head of the Department for Regulatory and Legal Support of the Committee's Cultural Heritage Protection Nadezhda Volova. The organizer of the event is Rosokhrankultura. The congress is attended by representatives of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Field of Cultural Heritage Protection, federal and regional authorities, the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments. The congress participants plan to consider topical issues in the field of protection of cultural heritage sites, including issues related to the delimitation of powers in the field of conservation, use, promotion and state protection of cultural heritage sites, as well as the organization of interaction between federal bodies for the protection of historical and cultural monuments and bodies executive power of the subjects of the Federation. / PAI

On December 17, in the spiritual and educational center of the Pskov-Caves Monastery, a presentation of a new book by the abbot of the monastery, Archimandrite Tikhon (Secretarev) about Archimandrite John (Krestiankin) "Christ's Shepherd" was held. In 2010, the centenary of the elder John (Krestyankin) is celebrated. / PLN

The main prize of the International Competition-Festival "Light of the Christmas Star", which took place in the Scandinavian countries from December 10 to 16, was awarded to the choreographic ensemble "Solnyshko" of the House of Children's Art in Pskov. More than 100 performances by 28 bands from Sweden, Finland and Russia were shown on stage in Helsinki. Pskov dancers performed a program of Russian dances. / PLN