Our compatriot Mikhail Ivanov achieved great success at the recently completed Russian cross-country skiing championship in Krasnogorsk near Moscow. At a distance of 15 km in the classical style, he became the winner, ahead of the second medalist of the Olympic championship Alexei Prokurorov by 20 seconds. In February, the Russian ski team, which includes M. Ivanov, will take part in the World Championships in Lahti, Finland.

An interesting variety of basketball, the so-called street (i.e. street) basketball, made its debut in Pskov. This is the kind of basketball we all played in our backyards as children. Basketball players from 11 Pskov teams took part in this interesting tournament. And the winner was the ECO team, ahead of Iskra-1. In third place are representatives of the first team of the police school.

Orel hosted the interregional championship and the championship of Russia in athletics. Athletes representing the Center and North-West of Russia identified the best in four age groups. In total, 460 athletes from 22 regions came to the start. The team of the Pskov region included 12 athletes, eleven of whom represented Pskov. In addition, another 21 athletes from our region competed in the individual competition.

The organizers of the carnival amusements in Pskov seemed to decided to refute the statement that all the good has one unpleasant property: to end too quickly. The final does not threaten the Pskov carnival, only a short break. But it is filled with joyful events and the affirmation of the first traditions.

The players of the Pskov-2000 football club, continuing preparations for the summer season, played another control match. In St. Petersburg, at the Zenit Sports Palace, they met with the understudies of the home team. Interestingly, last year the head coach of Zenit-2 was L. Burchalkin, who now heads the Pskov club. Last season, the Pskovites both in the home match and on the road achieved victories with the same score of 1:0. And in the recent match, A.

A very instructive gift was presented to the Pskov city authorities by the employees of the Central City Library - a digest of publications about the Pskov region in the central press over the past year. The digest contains more than 150 publications in eleven sections, including economics, culture, education, the army, politics, and social problems.

Gaitano Bellezza spread his arms wide with Italian expression: “The government would give me such a Mercedes and such a suitcase with money if I provided six hundred people with jobs, not to mention foreign exchange earnings to the state” ... Italy's largest importer of table linen, Sinclair, headed by Senor Bellezza, has been operating in Russia for more than eight years.

Last Friday, the Pskov City Duma adopted the city budget for 2001 and the plan for the social and economic development of Pskov in the first reading. The mayor of Pskov, M. Khoronen, who presented the city's development strategy, noted that the priorities were correctly set in the plan and assured that the city administration would do everything possible to ensure that the tasks set were implemented as scheduled.

The Great Lucy Customs has a distinctive feature. Being an internal customs, it works as a border way-it is controlled by 256 kilometers of the Russian-Belarusian border. Control over the goods and vehicles moving across the customs border of Russia today is a priority area of ​​its activities. The voicing of the problems of the Russian-Belarusian customs border, which were heard at the highest level and are already being decided, also the result of the efforts of its employees.

INVESTMENTS With mudons, plastic bottles, cans and other containers, residents of Pskov once or two a week go to springs, wells, keys for clean water. Use water for drinking purposes that flows from cranes, they do not risk. More than a thousand years ago, our wise ancestors settled on the shore of the Great, so that there were no problems with water. We still live by the river, but alas, we can’t get drunk from it. For many years, the water supply remains for Pskov the number one problem.

The past year has been one of the most difficult for the Pskov Customs since its inception, - noted its head VF Ivanov at a press conference for local media. - The Pskov customs, which previously worked as an internal one, received a new status - a border one - and increased fourfold in terms of the number of full-time employees. Now, just like 450 years ago, it is one of the largest customs offices in Russia.

Theater No, she does not shoot ready -made scenes from theatrical action. Each of her photographs is a complete performance, invented and staged by the artist. And it doesn’t matter what the viewer sees: a portrait of a stranger in the retro style, still life or plot from the life of the early XX century.

Rudolf Praust, Candidate of Economics Start in No. 1 (21), 2 (22). Foreign experience in cooperation and integration of large business enterprises with family farms that we talked about in the previous essay is good and interesting, but it is impossible to transfer it in its pure form as it is done with any material and technical innovation, for example, with a new variety, cattle breed, tractor, etc.

The Pskov telegraph and telephone station began to provide a new type of service: videotelephone communication with 52 cities of Russia. Any citizen can not only carry on a conversation with a subscriber from Moscow or St. Petersburg, but also see him on the monitor screen. Such a communication session will cost him only twice as much as a regular conversation with a notification.

For two hundred and forty -sixth year in a row on Tatyana's day in Rus', the main student holiday is celebrated. All revolutions and wars, a change in the formations, rulers and names of the Russian state and even an officially accepted international day of students could not shake the tradition and left unchanged the cheerful, reckless mood of a special day - January 25. Through time January 25 (January 12 - according to the old style) of 1755 by the troubles of M.V. Lomonosov and I. I.