All apartments in a building damaged by an explosion in Tomsk have been sealed, Tomsk Region Governor Sergei Zhvachkin told reporters on Friday evening. “A commission has been created to study the causes of the explosion,” he said. According to S. Zhvachkin, the apartments on the 8th, 9th and 10th floors suffered the most from the explosion and fire. In addition, the governor said, experts will not ignore the pets that were left without owners in the damaged high-rise building.

Photo: Alexander Petrosyan/Kommersant Sergei Sobyanin plans to improve the appearance of Moscow with graffiti. The mayor said that he wanted to use street art to decorate the facades of abandoned houses and walls of underground crossings. According to him, street artists will help make the urban space "cleaner, brighter and more beautiful." On what conditions will be carried out by these socially useful work is still unknown.

The parents of one of the schoolgirls in the village of Privolny, Stavropol Territory, complain that their daughter is not allowed to attend classes while wearing a hijab. “We sent our daughter to school by bus today. The head teacher put her back on the bus and took her home. She has not been allowed to attend classes for about two weeks because of her hijab,” the girl’s father, Rizak Rizakov, told the Interfax agency. He noted that teachers explain their decision by the governor’s decree.

The opposition submitted a notice to the Moscow mayor's office to hold a "Freedom March" on December 15. Two routes have been announced: from Kaluzhskaya to Lubyanka Square and from Novokuznetskaya Street to Lubyanka Square. The declared number of participants is 50,000 people. “A notification has been submitted to the mayor’s office for a march on December 15. From Kaluga Square to Lubyanka.

Since childhood, harmful, illogical knowledge in the form of fairy tales has been loaded into children’s heads. I wish parents could think logically about what they read to their children. What can the fairy tale “Emelya” teach? Be lazy, do nothing, and everything will be fine? “Morozko” - “Kind” dad takes his own daughter to the forest and leaves her there in the cold.

The Milky Way is our star house. We live on the edge of this vast galaxy, on one of the four spiral sleeves that diverge from the disk -densely filled with stars. This disk is noticeably thickening to the center where the active core is located - the restless heart of the galaxy. A very compact, very dense, heavy and active source of radiation is hidden in it - apparently, a supermassive black hole is 4.3 million times heavier than the sun.

I'm not sure that Belgorod once experienced something like that. This happened on the night of November 28-29. The opened electronics store "Media Markt" attracted not just the masses, but the thousands of hungry crowds to the discounts of people. At the same time, the store administration reported - discounts on goods will be valid until December 3. But this did not stop people.

Photo: Reuters In Tver, an emergency regime was introduced due to heavy snow falling into the city. According to the city information department, the city administration has adopted a resolution involving the creation of an operational headquarters to liquidate emergencies. The head of the headquarters was appointed the first deputy head of the Tver administration Sergey Chubenko. The regional governor Andrei Shevelev urged all the inhabitants of the city to go out to clean snow.

I admire postcards from my homeland. The mayor's office invited citizens to switch to public transport . But our public transport is also not made with a finger. Especially the so-called "accordion players". Postcard from the Smart People Forum, here . Original

One day, when the country was still called the Soviet Union, seven of us decided to take and promote the idea of ​​alternative service. We wrote posters, left the house and drove to the city center. We didn't get there. Someone snitched, and on the approaches to the square we were harassed by frisky Kegebey people. And then an indecently clear-eyed man in civilian clothes asked me in a separate office: “It’s them, the other six, it’s clear.

Today there is a transport collapse in our city. Winter, as always, came unexpectedly for officials, and they are not able to cope with the snowfall. The original was taken from dvdm Veliky Novgorod is paralyzed - who is to blame and what to do? I took this picture late yesterday evening... Now the city is covered in snow, transport is at a standstill, people are indignant. =) The snow is so beautiful, by the way, dry, fluffy and sparkling. =) But for some reason people don’t like it.

UPD: 12/01/2012 Tomsk authorities introduced a state of emergency after the explosion of a gas cylinder in a residential high-rise building in the city center. According to the latest data, two people were killed and 12 were injured. The emergency headquarters for the explosion was created at school No. 22, which is located not far from the house. Law enforcement agencies recommend that relatives of victims contact headquarters for help.

Heating and nutrition points for drivers are opening on the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway in the Tver region, reports the regional department of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. “Points where drivers can warm up and eat will appear along the highway in the Vyshnevolotsky and Torzhok districts, where large traffic jams have formed due to snow drifts,” the report says. “Transport traffic on the highway is difficult.

Developing and testing an original psychological method that connects ethical and characterological concepts formed during the cultural and historical development of society with the subconscious mental attitudes of individuals, I widely use famous socio-political figures as “guinea pigs”. And, exposing to the readers the characteristics of public personalities, I pursue the goal of combining personally enjoyable scientific delights with socially useful ones, at least I hope that this is so.

I first observed this phenomenon about ten years ago, when three unshaven men climbed onto trolleybus No. 8, supporting each other by their sleeves drawn at the elbows. Wearing sweatpants with stripes sewn on, spreading the aroma of cheap cigarettes and thick fumes, they presented the conductor with fiery red tickets with the inscription “Cossack”, added verbally “His Majesty” and demanded free travel.