Autumn on the threshold. For all football fans, this is the time of the most acute experiences - there is a time of decisive matches. It seems that recently, at the end of April, the tournament of the West Zone Zone of the Second Division started, and today the teams have already played 26 rounds. Pskov region in the West zone is represented by Pskov FC and the Great Lucy Energia - teams that occupy polar places in the standings.

Wall Street Journal / Edward Radzinsky Last week, in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which was once destroyed by the Bolsheviks and recently restored to all its splendor, 144 hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church voted unanimously to canonize Tsar Nicholas and his family. The king was canonized as a “new martyr.” Translated from church jargon into simple language, this means that Nicholas II was canonized not for the way he ruled, but for the way he died.

The mayor of Pskov, Mikhail Horonen, addressed the commander of the 7th division of nuclear submarines, Rear Admiral Mikhail Kuznetsov, with words of sorrow and assurance that the residents of the city sincerely empathize with the grave grief that befell all Russians. For the people of Pskov, the telegram says, this tragedy is especially close and understandable, since their sponsored boat "Pskov" and the lost "Kursk" were moored at the same pier.

Representatives of the Pskov Youth Fencing School "Musketeer" returned from Moscow from the Russian fencing championship. 2000 - Olympic. It is this significant fact that can explain the early start of the fencing season. Musketeers usually hold their first competitions not earlier than mid-autumn.

Five years ago, Pskov media vying reported that in the brigade of marine border guards deployed in the village of Rodina of the Pskov district, Yungi appeared - adolescents from orphanages of the region. The idea belonged to the commander of part V. S. Strizhov, and many had a hand in its implementation - from the specialists of the Department of Education of the region to the director of the children's library.

In the village of Stary Izborsk, Pechora District, the festival "Pskov Architecture 2000" was held for two days. The first festival took place last year in Pushkinskiye Gory. Pskov architects, builders, designers showed what they have built, shared their creative plans. This time, the main topic for discussion was the problem of adapting historical and cultural monuments for the development of tourism in Russia. And a good example of how to do this is Stary Izborsk.

Nikolai Sitov: CONFLICT Nikolai Sitov, 48 years old. Education higher. He graduated from the Leningrad Technological Institute of Pulp and Paper Industry. Since August 1978, he has been working in the regional printing house: a newspaper technologist, master of the setup workshop, the head of the setup workshop, a senior mechanic. 16 years as director of the printing house. In August 2000 they are trying to dismiss it.

If nothing unforeseen happens, then the main event of the week in Pskov should be the meeting of the ministers of Russia and Estonia. The official start of the visit is scheduled for 10 am on 31 August.

The brilliance and poverty of the Pskov political opposition A new political fourth anniversary is born. Governor's elections are coming. The Pskov voter lived in the political system of coordinates for three and a half years, where everything was in place. Here is power, and these are the "Zhirinovites." Here is the opposition: for someone - democrats, for some - communists. It is quite clear even for a person not sophisticated in politics. But suddenly this system collapsed.

It is symbolic that the land near the village, bearing the name "Motherland", will henceforth become the place of the last shelter of the defenders of the Fatherland. Here, on the banks of the Velikaya River, opposite the monument to Alexander Nevsky, a state military memorial cemetery was founded.

CHANCE Vladimir Nikolaevich Fedorov, 51 years old. Born in Veliky Novgorod, graduated from the Novgorod Polytechnic Institute. Since 1975, he worked in Pskov by a designer, chief designer of the radio component plant, according to Rubin, chief engineer of the Tondond for the plant. Since 1994, in the Pskov region has been in the Pskov region of the Federal Service of Russia for financial recovery and insolvency.

L'Hebdo / Jean-Philippe Buch, Chantal Thévnot Friborg, rue Saint-Pierre, 10. 11 August. Geneva investigator Laurent Kasper-Ansermet, accompanied by police, bursts into the elevator. On the third floor, he shows the secretary of Prorisco Consulting a search warrant. Purpose: to seize all banking documents of the company "Runicom", renting offices in the premises of "Prorisco Consulting".

More than 800 thousand rubles were spent on the repair of schools in the Palkin district for the new school year. The textbooks were purchased by 14 thousand rubles, and the provision of them reached 95 percent. The supply of coal for school boiler houses is still 75 percent. The main school in the village of Vasilyevo, located 10 kilometers from the district center, is not much different from hundreds of the same rural schools.

The electronic library of myths and legends was created by the specialists of the Pskov Free Institute. "Myths and legends of the peoples of the world" ( http://www.pskov.teia.ru/~ml ) began its work in November 1999 - and today the library's audience exceeds one hundred thousand people. The library contains more than 2,500 myths of various peoples - from the Australian Aborigines to the Japanese. New materials appear in the library almost daily.

Graduates of Pytalov schools talk about themselves and the future of their small homeland MIRROR The development of the main directions of socio-economic development for the period until 2010 has begun in the Russian Federation. This work is also being carried out in the Pytalovsky district.