Only terrible things Last week Novosibirsk hosted the festival "Humor and Erotica in Advertising", organized by the advertising agency "Alliance Media". Within the framework of the festival, the best works of two European advertising festivals - EPICA and LEAF were shown. The editors of Just Business watched dozens of commercials and made sure that the differences in the level of Western and domestic advertising are primarily due to the difference in the mentality of its creators and viewers.

As it became known to TAIGE.info, users of the computer network Academ.org, covering the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, will be able to view erotic channels via the local network. A vote is currently taking place in one of Academ.org's internal forums, the results of which will determine which channels will air on the network. Among other options, there are two erotic channels.

November 17 in Novosibirsk at 16-20 local time at the substation "Thermal" by the action of relay protection, the feeder with a voltage of 6 kilovolts, going to the distribution network, was disconnected.

In the village of Bolotnoy, Novosibirsk Region, police officers detained two previously convicted men born in 1974 and 1977. As the press service of the regional police department told Taiga.info, the young people tried to profit at someone else's expense. With an ax at the ready, they burst into the house of a local merchant in the middle of the night and began to demand money. Three hours later they retreated. But the attackers did not manage to get far from the scene of the incident.

Amway Corporation, one of the world leaders in direct sales, announced the opening of the Amway Shopping Center in Novosibirsk. As TAIGA.info was informed by the Novosibirsk PR agency PR Positive, in the new multifunctional Shopping Center with an area of ​​1,300 sq. m. Amway Business Owners will be able to purchase high-quality Amway products, hold business meetings and attend trainings on the company's products.

The prosecutor's office of the Tomsk region sent to court the case of a traffic accident on the Tomsk-Mariinsk highway. The accident happened on August 14 this year. As a result of the collision of "KamAZ", a bus with tourists and a tractor, 14 people were killed. According to investigators, the accident occurred due to traffic violations committed by tractor and bus drivers. The bus driver died. Tractor driver Alexander Yegorov was charged under Part 3 of Art.

In the Kemerovo region, 960 subscribers - budget organizations, administrations of local authorities, as well as residents of the region - have already refused wired telephone communication services provided by Sibirtelecom OJSC. This was reported by the press service of the administration of the Kemerovo region. Let us recall that from November 1 the cost of local calls at Sibirtelecom increased by 20% for the population and by 15% for organizations.

On November 18, Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn, First Deputy Governor of the Tomsk Region, and Zhang Xiaolian, Assistant Chairman of the Government of Heilongjiang Province (China), signed a memorandum of cooperation in the forest industry. Kommersant has learned that the Chinese side has proposed postponing for the long term the construction of a pulp and paper mill (PPM) in Asino, which the parties have been negotiating since February 2005.

The Novosibirsk Regional Court sentenced to impressive terms the members of the group "klofelinshchikov", the organizer of which was the former physical education teacher Yuri Petrov, and the basis was his former students and taxi drivers. Her victims were three men and a girl. All of them died from an overdose of Azaleptin.

On November 18, the governor of the Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleev, addressed the regional council with the traditional budget message for the next year. Actually, he spoke a little about the 2006 budget and devoted the main part of his two-hour speech to the success of the socio-economic development of the region entrusted to him this year and the problems of the next year. The main one is the expected fall in prices for coal and metal products.

On November 17, at the Rubin Tomsk Congress Center, the Shell concern held a presentation for senior students of Tomsk universities. “Special demand in the company is for field development specialists, there are burning vacancies,” Anna Ivanova, a specialist in the HR department at Shell's Moscow office, told Kommersant. Shell will also hold presentations in Novosibirsk and the Far East.

On the night of November 17, unknown persons threw Molotov cocktails at the apartment of Vladimir Olfert, the vice-mayor of Biysk, the second largest city in the Altai Territory. As a result, his wife Lydia suffered. The mayor's office is confident that the reason for the night attack was the professional activities of the official in charge of housing and communal services and construction.

On November 17, in the Novosibirsk region, consideration of the case began on charges of reckless murder of the former head of the Kuzbass Department of Internal Affairs for Transport, retired Major General Yuri Letochny. According to the prosecutor's office, the general, who arrived at the recreation center in the Ordynsky district, shot a fisherman with a premium pistol when he tried to hit the ducks. Relatives of the deceased believe that the general should be tried for premeditated murder.

On November 17, the session of the Novosibirsk City Council approved the privatization plan for 2006. The mayor's office defended the need to sell a controlling stake in Central Market OJSC next year, which was opposed by the deputy commission for scientific and technical development and entrepreneurship, but officials did not manage to convince the deputies of the need to privatize the Main Department Store (GUM). The enterprise will be corporatized, but will not be sold.

On November 17, in Novosibirsk, the chairman of the Central Election Commission, Alexander Veshnyakov, met with the heads of regional branches (RO) of political parties participating in the campaign for the election of deputies of the regional council. Mr. Veshnyakov was pleased with the conversation, which, in his opinion, demonstrated the readiness of the parties for the upcoming vote.