After centuries of relative stability, the magnetic N Pole is migrating again, and at breathtaking speed. If he maintains such a pace of movement, in 50 years the magnetic pole can reach Siberia. The magnetic North Pole, unlike its geographical namesake, is very unstable: it is constantly in motion. It either slows down, or moves faster, and sometimes even changes positions with the magnetic South Pole.

More than 100 tourists from Novosibirsk, Tomsk and Kemerovo cannot return home after a holiday in the resorts of the Philippines. As a representative of the administration of the Tomsk region told the Interfax-Siberia agency on Wednesday, the travel company Serp and K (Novosibirsk) has declared bankruptcy. "At the same time, the company, having sent a group to Baracay Island (Philippines), paid only a third of the required amount to its Philippine partners," the agency's interlocutor said.

A competition to select regions for the creation of special economic zones (SEZs) of a recreational-tourist type may be announced in April-May 2006, Yury Zhdanov, head of the Federal Agency for the Management of Special Economic Zones, told reporters on Wednesday. He noted that the government will most likely send a positive review of this bill to the State Duma in the near future, so that in February the parliament could consider this bill.

Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Alexander Khloponin confirmed the fact of negotiations on possible approaches to the merger of MMC Norilsk Nickel and ALROSA. He stated this on January 18 on the air of one of the Krasnoyarsk radio stations.

Evenki scientists Anatoly Mukhachev and Valery Salatkin developed a manual on hunting technology for students in grades 10-11 of educational institutions of the Far North. The book of Evenk authors "For the first time on the hunting path" was published in St. Petersburg with a circulation of 1,000 copies, the press service of the Evenk administration told REGNUM-KNews. In the training manual "For the first time on the hunting trail" the experience of hunters of Evenkia is taken as a basis.

More than 60,000 tons of coal have been mined at the Munaisky open pit (Altai Territory). As a correspondent of news agency REGNUM was informed in the press service of the administration of the region, the mine has been intensively exploited since 2005, and already in the heating season-2006, more than 20 thousand tons of Solton coal were delivered to the regions of the Altai Territory and the Republic of Altai. Another 40 thousand tons of coal is ready for loading.

The possibility of introducing the avian influenza virus into the territory of the Siberian Federal District is rather high. Sergey Netesov, deputy general director of the state scientific center of virology and biotechnology "Vector", stated this on January 18 to a REGNUM correspondent.

In Novosibirsk, on January 18 at 13.10 local time (10.10 Moscow time) at the Teatralnaya substation, the action of protections turned off the feeder with a voltage of 6 kilovolts, going to RP-1200 (distribution point).

In the center of Novosibirsk, a fire broke out in the brick building of pharmacy No. 2 on Krasny Prospekt, no one was injured. "The fire occurred on Tuesday evening, when there were no visitors in the pharmacy, so no one was hurt," the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation for the Novosibirsk Region told RIA Novosti.

The administration of the Krasnoyarsk Territory must resolve the issue of raising tariffs for housing and communal services before February 11. This was announced on January 18 at a meeting with journalists by the first deputy governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Lev Kuznetsov. This term was determined by the Federation.

Krasnoyarsk cellular operators still connect subscribers with direct city numbers. Despite reports that from January 1, 2006, the largest Russian mobile operators MTS, Beeline and Megafon stopped connecting subscribers with direct numbers, the Krasnoyarsk branches of these companies do not plan to stop these connections.

The first meeting of the council for the implementation of the priority national project "Education" was held in the Tomsk region, the procedure for the implementation of the three directions declared by the project was determined, two more directions were added.

On the night of January 20-21 in the Kemerovo region, the air temperature will drop to -29-33 degrees Celsius. As a REGNUM correspondent was told on January 18 in the press service of the administration of the Kemerovo region, such a temperature will last all day on January 21, and on Sunday, January 22, the thermometer will drop to -39-40 degrees.

As Taiga.info was informed in the press service of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Novosibirsk Region, at six o'clock in the morning in the Oktyabrsky district, traffic police officers stopped to check documents car VAZ-2121. Two young people who were in the cabin did not have any documents. It turned out that at 5 in the morning they stole this car from the car park at st. Electoral.

The project to create a ski resort in the region of Mount Mamai in Buryatia has entered the implementation stage. The construction site of the ski center is located 5 km from the federal highway Moscow - Vladivostok and 6 km from the Mamai railway station of the East Siberian Railway, the information department of the government of Buryatia reports on Tuesday.