Football club "Pskov-2000" in the course of pre-season training held the first control match. By tradition, the Pskovites start the season with a match at the Zenit Sports Games Palace in St. Petersburg with the local Pobeda. For the first time, the rivals met in 1999 and the advantage of the Pskovites was then more than noticeable - 7:0. Last year, FC Pskov also defeated Pobeda - 4:1. Unfortunately, this year the winning tradition was broken.

In the near future, in the Pskov City Duma, the issue of transferring to the balance of the city committee on the property of the chain of stores, which are in the operational management of the Center for Social Assistance to the population of Pskov and serve one and a half thousand low -income citizens. Two stores - on the street. Labor, 39, and Novoselov, 7, have already been transferred, and the fate of the rest causes hot disputes.

For three days now, our bright life is even more expensive. Following the railroad and signalers, the bad news was reported by power engineers. Starting January 1, all over Russia, the selling tariffs for FOREM, as well as the subscription fee for the use of RAO UES networks, have been increased. New tariffs for the Pskov region are determined by the decision of the Regional Energy Commission ( No. 1 dated 05.01.2001 ).

Now any resident of the farthest country from us can get acquainted with the treasures of the Pskov land without leaving his own home. The new server "Culture of the Pskov Land" ( www.pskov.rt.ru ), containing information on history and culture, architecture and painting, natural reserves and folk art, was opened thanks to the support of the regional committee for culture by the Open Society Institute.

Today, the name of Larisa Aleksandrovna Grigoryeva is known to many lovers of exotic plants of the former union, her floriculture advice is on the Internet, among the Pskov Farmers, amateur, she is considered an expert, primarily for the cultivation of orchids. Although she has enough other outlandish plants. How many Pskovs can boast that they drank their own coffee, ate their own 200-gram lemons, and harvested strawberries on the balcony?

From the first person Dear readers! We begin the new project “from the first person”, during the implementation of which we intend to introduce you to the first persons of the authorities of all levels of our region. You will be able, getting first -hand information, make your own opinion on how people live in cities and villages of the region, what are their prospects for the near and distant future.

The organizers presented a real New Year's surprise to the participants of the first meeting of the Olginsky Society this year. First, a scientific report was made by the historian-researcher A.A. Aleksandrov, who presented to the audience new information materials about the life of Princess Olga, revealing to our contemporaries the probable names of the relatives of the Grand Duchess. It is quite possible that the closest relative of Olga, most likely a brother, was the founder of Uglich.

From Alexey Kazarin In early spring, as soon as the earth thaws and warms up, various weeds begin to awaken, and among them, perhaps, the first to appear are tiny cotyledon sprouts that look like cucumbers. A few more weeks pass - and, you see, they turn into powerful straight-stemmed stems with large hairy-pubescent leaves, clogging other plants around them.

The first HIV-infected drug addict was officially registered in a quiet provincial Opochka. The crushing heroin wave, which first swept Pskov, reached the districts ... He came himself. He called Oleg, warning that in fact his name is different. He explained that he decided on the conversation because the hell, which recently had turned his life, is unbearable. He wants others to know about it.

In Pskov, at the Electron stadium, athletes held a winter championship and a regional championship among the Youth Sports School. 61 athletes from 5 teams took part in the regional championship. Among the teams of the cities, the athletes of Pskov won, ahead of the great athletes. And in the rivalry between the teams of the districts, the victory went to athletes from the Velikoluksky district. In second place are athletes from Pechory, in third place are representatives of Sebezh.

IN AREA The most pleasant news is that the conductor is going to Pskov again. This time from overseas Boston. The conductor's name is Brenda Lyn Leach. Born into a family of musicians, she played the piano from the age of five, studied piano and organ at the Boston College of Music. As an organist, she toured almost all over the world: the National Cathedral in Washington, Notre Dame in Paris, London's Westminster Cathedral, St. Petersburg Chapel, St.

In January, the IV All-Russian competition of students on knowledge of consumer protection legislation begins. Its first stage will be the regional competition on the basics of consumer knowledge, which will be held here for the third time. It is organized by the Pskov Territorial Department of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Antimonopoly Policy with the support of the regional department of education and local governments.

Last year, compared with the previous year, the number of tax crimes related to the turnover of real estate, in particular, when buying and selling apartments, increased tenfold. The structure of tax violations reflects changes associated with the growth of industrial production and trade turnover. For example, in the sphere of production and sale of goods, the number of crimes doubled, in construction - 7 times, in the provision of services - 6 times.

Four years ago, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Pskov Region began cooperation under the ITEC state program of India, which includes internships for Russian managers in various areas on the basis of large national and research institutes. During this time, ten Pskov residents, heads of firms and departments of enterprises, visited India. More recently, another group of managers returned from there.