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Russia will not increase its deployment of border guards in the Northwest due to NATO expansion after the alliance's November summit in Prague, said Colonel-General Konstantin Totsky, director of the Russian Federal Border Service. He considers the increase in the grouping of Russian border guards in the North-West unnecessary in a situation where Russia and NATO are stepping up cooperation. / PAI

January 31 - February 1 Pskov region was visited by members of the federal political council of the "Union of Right Forces" Alexei Kara-Murza and Valery Khomyakov. They met with representatives of public and political organizations, as well as journalists. The program of the visit included activities to establish the Count Peter Greyden Foundation, an outstanding representative of the liberal movement of the late 19th century. In the village of Glubokoe, Opochetsky District, where his family estate was located, a meeting of the regional political council of the Union of Right Forces was held with the participation of Moscow guests. / PAI

By decision of the deputies of the City Duma, a street named after Major Dostovalov will appear in Pskov. The name of the Hero of Russia, deputy battalion commander of the heroic 6th company of the 76th airborne division, will be named after the street that closes the block in the area of ​​​​Yubileinaya, General Margelov, Shestak streets. Alexander Dostovalov died in a battle near the village of Ulus-Kert at the northern exit from the Argun Gorge. / PAI

On February 3, a delegation of the Consulate General of Denmark in St. Petersburg arrived in Pskov on a three-day visit. The delegation met with representatives of social institutions and public organizations. Representatives of the Consulate General visited the regional center for psychological and pedagogical rehabilitation and correction "Prisma". / PAI

On January 28, members of the Bureau of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party Boris Gryzlov, Sergei Shoigu, Yuri Luzhkov met with the chairman of the political council of the Pskov regional branch of the party, Viktor Semenov, in Moscow. According to V. Semyonov, during the meeting they discussed issues of effective work of the party, as well as ways out of the economic and social crisis in the Pskov region. / PLN

Since January 2003, jury trials have started to work in the Pskov region. The number of jurors included more than four thousand residents of the region, who underwent a thorough selection. / PLN

In 2003, it is planned to allocate 17 million rubles from the federal budget for the reconstruction of the objects of the Mikhailovskoye State Memorial Historical and Literary Museum-Reserve of A. S. Pushkin. / PAI

Nominal money incomes of the population of the Pskov region in 2002 amounted to 21 billion 727 million rubles and increased by 32% compared to 2001. Real cash income increased by 14% compared to 2001. Of the total cash income, the population of the region spent 15 billion 754 million rubles on the purchase of goods and services, 1 billion 444 million rubles on taxes and fees, and 634 million rubles on the purchase of foreign currency. Over the past year, cash balances in the hands of the population increased by 60%. In 2002, the average per capita cash income of a resident of the region amounted to 2329 rubles. / PLN

The subsistence minimum for the Pskov region for the fourth quarter of 2002 was set at 1,571 rubles per capita, 1,749 rubles for the able-bodied population, 1,170 rubles for pensioners, and 1,534 rubles for children. / PAI

On January 29, a conference of the association of peasant farms and farmers of the Pskov region worked in Pskov. The participants adopted an appeal to the regional executive power, calling for real support for peasant farms. A new president of the association has been elected - Andrei Voronenko, a farmer from the Pechora region, who heads the Vityaz peasant farm. / PLN

Maxim Konstantinov, a teacher at the Vetvenitskaya elementary school in the Gdovsky district, was awarded the Prize of the President of the Russian Federation, in accordance with the decree "On awarding the prizes of the President of the Russian Federation for 2002 to educators - laureates of the "Teacher of the Year of Russia" competition and students in general education institutions - winners of international olympiads in academic subjects" . / PLN

In accordance with the decision taken by the Government of Moscow on January 31, Lyceum No. 10 of the city of Velikiye Luki was supplied with a computer class. Support for the Velikoluksky municipal educational institution, the winner of the regional and All-Russian review "School of the Year of Russia", was provided at the request of the director of the lyceum Alexander Shulaev, a former member of the Central Council of the OPOO "Fatherland", to Yuri Luzhkov. / PLN