Yesterday, at a meeting of the Omsk City Council (SC), the deputies adopted the budget of Omsk for 2006 in the second reading. City Hall officials also managed to achieve an increase in tariffs for cold water supply and sanitation.

Anatoly Perminov, head of the federal space agency (FKA) Roskosmos, is arriving in Omsk today. As it became known to Kommersant, the head of the FKA will hold a meeting in Omsk at the Polet software, at which he will demand to expedite work on the restructuring of the enterprise. Vyacheslav Davidenko, press secretary of the Roscosmos federal space agency, said yesterday that the head of the agency, Anatoly Perminov, intends to make a two-day working visit to Omsk at Polet.

The Novosibirsk department of the FSB sent the case of activists of the local branch of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP) to court. They are charged with preparing terrorist attacks, illegal possession of TNT and RDX, and the manufacture of explosive devices. Nikolai Baluev and Vyacheslav Rusakov were detained in May of this year.

The Arbitration Court of the Kemerovo Region declared Ziminka Mine LLC, controlled by Prokopyevskugol Management Company LLC, bankrupt. The mine has about 890 million rubles. declared accounts payable, including RUB 401 mln. on mandatory payments. The main bankruptcy creditors are enterprises affiliated with the management company Prokopyevskugol. At the request of the company's creditors, the court opened bankruptcy proceedings for six months.

Altai Territory has completed the implementation of a pilot project for microcrediting rural residents. According to the press service of the regional administration, within the framework of the project, which started in September this year, 1,017 loan agreements were concluded for a total of 25 million rubles. Its participants were rural entrepreneurs and households from 14 districts of the region.

As it became known to Kommersant, LUKOIL opened the first filling station in Tomsk under a franchise agreement with the local company LLC Agroservice, which is engaged in the wholesale and retail sales of petroleum products. By the end of this year, it is planned to open one more filling station in the city. Market participants believe that they will be able to noticeably sharpen the competition if they sell gasoline of LUKOIL's own production.

The Kemerovo retail chain Kora announced the placement of a promissory note loan in the amount of 150 million rubles in the near future, as well as the issue in 2006 of bonds worth up to 1 billion rubles. With the help of borrowed funds, Kora-TK intends to significantly expand the network, including through the development of new regional markets. The first supermarket in Novosibirsk is expected to open in two years.

Yesterday, officials from the Kuzbass administration and the mayor's office of Kemerovo announced plans to build a number of sports facilities in the regional center. The publication of these plans, apparently, was intended to reassure the public after the sale of the Oktyabrsky sports and concert complex (SKK), where the Energia hockey club plays, to the Krasnoyarsk trading network ALPI.

On Tuesday Novosibirsk hosted the founding conference of the Siberian Grain Union (SZS), which included agricultural producers and processors from several regions of Siberia. First of all, the members of the union announced their intention to achieve a reduction in railway tariffs, which, in their opinion, do not allow Siberian grain to enter the markets of the European part of Russia and the Far East.

The authorities of the Novosibirsk region will begin to implement the four national projects named by President Vladimir Putin even before the signing of the relevant government documents. This was stated by the governor of the region Viktor Tolokonsky at yesterday's meeting with the heads of district and city administrations.

Svetlana Andronova, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the region, elected from the Lesosibirsk single-mandate constituency with the support of the Communist Party, wrote a statement about her withdrawal from the party due to disagreements with the leadership of the regional committee. According to her, the reason was the "tough dictate" prevailing in the Communist Party, as well as a number of disagreements during voting in the Legislative Assembly.

Yesterday, ZATO Zheleznogorsk hosted the first public hearings in the history of the city on the issue of importing spent nuclear fuel (SNF). There were no noticeable protests about importation at the event. As it seemed to the correspondent of "Kommersant", not least of all this was influenced by the fact that almost a third of the public present in the hall were representatives of the mining and chemical plant (MCC), which is interested in processing and storing spent nuclear fuel.

Yesterday the regional prosecutor's office held an explanatory conversation with Krasnoyarsk journalists. Prosecutor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Viktor Grin accused media representatives of “interfering with the investigation” in the case of five dead children, and asked them not to write more materials on this topic until the end of the investigative actions. Also, Mr.

The administration of the Irkutsk region has announced that it will not accept the offer of the East Siberian Gas Company (ESGK; operator of the Irkutsk region gasification project) to sell the disputed stake in Verkhnechonskneftegaz (VChNG). It was assumed that the proceeds would be divided between the shareholders of ESGC - the regional administration and TNK-BP. But local authorities do not intend to share, they need the entire amount - more than 2.1 billion rubles.

Today, November 30, NATO Assistant Secretary General Keith Gardner visited Novosibirsk. According to a REGNUM correspondent, the main goals of his visit were the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences and Novosibirsk State University.