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On January 10, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin held a meeting on the issue of assessing the effectiveness of the activities of the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Representatives of the regions took part in its work along with the heads of federal ministries and departments via videoconferencing. As the Pskov Information Agency was informed by the press service of the regional administration, First Deputy Governor Sergei Pernikov and Head of the Department of Intersectoral Cooperation and Long-Term Planning Svetlana Grigorieva participated in the conference call from the Pskov Region. / PAI

On January 16, in Moscow, an expert council under the Ministry of Education and Science considered measures to modernize the system of general education in the Pskov region in 2012. At the meeting of the council, acting Head of the State Department of Education of the Pskov Region Alexander Sedunov. He will present information about the current state of the general education system in the Pskov region, the results of the implementation of a set of modernization measures in 2011 and plans for 2012. The Council considered priority areas for the modernization of general education - bringing the average salary of teachers to the average in the economy of the region, attracting young specialists to schools, strengthening the material and technical base of general education institutions, and organizing distance learning. Within the framework of the Agreement between the Ministry of Education and Science and the regional administration, the size of the targeted federal subsidy for 2012 will be determined. / PAI

On January 12, the signing of an action program for the implementation of the agreement on cooperation between trade union organizations of the Vitebsk, Pskov and Smolensk regions for 2012 took place. The program was signed by Chairman of the Pskov Regional Council of Trade Unions Uliana Mikhailova, Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Association of Trade Unions Alexander Tsylev and Chairman of the Smolensk Regional Association of Trade Union Organizations Yevgeny Maksimenko. / PLN

On January 17, the Velikiye Luki Museum of Local Lore hosted the opening of the Military Hospital exhibition dedicated to the 69th anniversary of the liberation of the city of Velikie Luki from Nazi invaders. The exhibition presents materials from the collections of the Museum of Local Lore and the Velikoluksky Medical Museum about nurses, military doctors of the 3rd Shock Army and the Kalinin partisan brigades. The exhibition uses both traditional forms of presentation of exhibits and new ones, which allow creating the atmosphere of a field hospital and understanding the role of military doctors. For the first time, the exposition of the museum will feature materials on the deployment of military hospitals in Velikie Luki and the Velikie Luki region. / PLN

January 17, 2012 marks 43 years since the death of Yuri Pavlovich Spegalsky (1909-1969), an outstanding researcher of the architecture of ancient Pskov, an architect, founder of the Pskov restoration workshops, an artist, a master of decorative and applied arts. Employees of the Memorial Museum-Apartment of Yu.P. Spegalsky was invited to take part in the laying of flowers on the graves of Yuri Spegalsky and his wife Olga Arshakuni at the Mironositsky cemetery on January 17 at 12 o'clock. The traditional day of memory of Yu.P. Spegalsky, this year dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the creation of his Memorial Museum-Apartment, will be held at the end of January 2012. / PLN

An exhibition dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the birth of the Pskov writer Lev Malyakov opened in the Pskov Museum-Reserve in the exposition "Pskov Region during the Great Patriotic War". The organization of the exhibition is part of the "Event Calendar" program implemented by the Pskov Museum-Reserve for several years. Lev Ivanovich Malyakov was born on January 11, 1927 in the village of Kalashnikovo, Gdov District, into a peasant family. Before the war, Lev Malyakov completed seven classes. In 1941 he turned 14 years old. During the years of occupation, the future writer fought against the Nazis as part of the Second Leningrad Partisan Brigade. In 1944, before reaching military age, Lev Malyakov left to serve as a volunteer in the Navy. For participation in the hostilities to liberate the Baltic states from Nazi invaders, he was awarded military medals and the Order of the Patriotic War II degree. After the war, he graduated from the journalism department of the philological faculty of Leningrad State University. Since 1955, he worked in the Pskovskaya Pravda newspaper, then he was the editor-in-chief of the regional newspaper Young Leninist. Since 1964 - head of the Pskov branch of Lenizdat. In 1990 he created the Lyceum. A. S. Pushkin, became its director. / PAI

"The Best Books of 2011" are presented in the Pskov Regional Universal Scientific Library from January 16 to 29. The exposition collected publications received by the regional scientific library in 2011: on history, economics, politics, law, pedagogy, psychology, philosophy, art, medicine, literary criticism, linguistics, local history, various sectors of the national economy, in foreign languages ​​- more than 600 titles in total the most interesting and relevant monographs, reference publications, textbooks and teaching aids, scientific publications and music literature. Among the variety of publications collected at the exhibition, local history books are of particular interest, there are more than 200 copies. The most in demand by readers are such collections as "Pskov - the city of military glory" and "Provincial Pskov in archival documents", books-winners and prize-winners of the competition for the best local history publication about the Pskov region (for 2010). / PAI

On January 12, the Pskov Pedagogical Complex hosted the grand opening of the Teachers' Club, which included winners and prize-winners of the "Teacher of the Year" contest of different years in the city of Pskov and the Pskov region. About twenty teachers became members of the club. / PLN

The title of the strongest chess player in the region for the seventh time was received by the FIDE master from Velikiye Luki Valentin Vlasov, who works as the head of the Velikiye Luki chess department of the Children's and Youth Sports Center. The 2012 championship was held at the premises of the Velikolukskaya State Agricultural Academy. Silver went to the champion of Pskov, CCM Roman Malyshev - an expert of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Pskov region. The bronze medal was given to the ex-champion of 2011, CMS Valery Rusov from Ostrov, where he works in the Federal Tax Service. All three once again confirmed the sports category of a candidate for the master of sports of Russia for a two-year period. For the first time, Vladimir Polevoy from Pskov was recognized as the best veteran of the tournament, who received the right to participate in the 2012 Northwestern Federal District Championship among veterans. Based on the results of the tournament, all participants will receive a FIDE ELO rating. / PAI

St. Petersburg hosted the international Christmas festival-competition "Shine of the Stars". Velikiye Luki was presented by an eleven-year-old student of the pop department of the Children's Music School No. 3, Elizaveta Bodrova. She became the laureate of the 1st degree in the nomination "Pop Vocal". Over the past six months, this is not her first victory. In June 2011, Elizaveta became the laureate of the 1st degree in two nominations at once: "Author's Song" and "Jazz Vocal" of the international competition-festival "Transfiguration" in St. ” of the international festival-competition “Creative Discoveries” in St. Petersburg and made it to the final of the competition, which will be held in Moscow in 2012. / PAI