Novosibirsk was visited by Modest Kolerov, head of the Russian Presidential Administration's Office for Interregional and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. On Wednesday morning, he spoke to the students of SibAGS, and in the evening - in the informal setting of the Truba club. Kolerov told the audience about the results of the collapse of the USSR, about how he sees the situation in the expanses of the "near abroad" now and the role of Russia in this situation.

On December 21, the press club of the Novosibirsk Union of Journalists hosted a meeting between Novosibirsk Mayor Vladimir Gorodetsky and journalists. This meeting was advertised as a "meeting without a tie". However, the mayor came in a tie, but in a cordial mood, which even the correspondent of TAIGA.info could not spoil with his questions. Vladimir Gorodetsky began the meeting with a story about the results of the year.

In the Leninsky District Court of Novosibirsk, 4 thieves were sentenced, who dismantled and rendered useless 40 out of 45 buoys stored by rivermen on the banks of the Ob in the autumn of last year during the working week, on the territory of repair and mechanical workshops belonging to the Novosibirsk region of waterways and hydraulic structures and shipping ( NRVPGiS).

Novosibirsk Mayor Vladimir Gorodetsky, who is the chairman of the Association of Siberian and Far Eastern Cities (ASDG), commenting to reporters on the arrest of the mayor of Tomsk, vice-chairman of the ASDG Alexander Makarov, said that he had never supported him in harsh statements regarding federal initiatives. “While there are no results of the investigation, I can’t comment on anything. Moreover, the declared facts have not yet been fully confirmed.

All debts to state employees of the Irkutsk region will be repaid by the end of this week. According to the press service of the administration of the Angara region, this was stated by the governor of the region Alexander Tishanin on Thursday at a meeting with representatives of trade unions. At the moment, the volume of debt to budgetary enterprises of transport and housing and communal services of the two districts is 447 thousand rubles.

On Thursday, at a court session in the "Ulman case", the victims during the interrogation refused material claims in a civil suit and said that the amount of moral damage they would like to compensate would be reported at one of the next sessions.

The prosecutor's office considers it possible to reclassify the actions of the mayor of Tomsk Alexander Makarov, who is accused of complicity in extortion and abuse of office. In addition, the emergence of new accused is not ruled out. The prosecutor's office considers it possible to reclassify the actions of the mayor of Tomsk Alexander Makarov, who is accused of complicity in extortion and abuse of office. In addition, the emergence of new accused is not ruled out.

The presentation of the first timber exchange in the east of Russia took place today in Irkutsk. Its founders were the Union of timber merchants, timber exporters of the region and a number of enterprises of various forms of ownership. According to Vyacheslav Samsonov, the stock exchange's president, "pilot" auctions have already taken place, and from January 1, 2007, it will work permanently on the basis of a network of almost 40 timber terminals created in the region.

The Investigation Department (SO) at the West Siberian Department of Internal Affairs on Transport completed the investigation of a criminal case that had been ongoing for more than two years, initiated on the facts of a false denunciation and fraudulent actions committed by a resident of Moscow who arrived in Novosibirsk on a business trip.

Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rossiya State Transport Company has entered the Tomsk and Omsk air transportation markets, which will allow it to increase its route network in Western Siberia by a third. S7 Airlines, which operates flights from Moscow to Tomsk, is confident that the new player will try to attract passengers with lower prices than those currently prevailing on the market, and this will negatively affect all carriers.

Since the beginning of this year, 1022 criminal cases have been initiated in the Chita region on the facts of illegal sale of alcohol-containing liquids, of which 795 have already been sent to court, RIA Novosti was told on Thursday in the press service of the regional prosecutor's office. The prosecutor's office also noted that an audit of compliance with the legislation on the circulation of alcoholic and alcohol-containing products was carried out and many violations were revealed during it.

The Department of Social Support for the Population of the Novosibirsk City Hall purchased 100 sound signaling devices to install them at traffic lights in the city to ensure the safe crossing of streets by visually impaired and visually impaired people. As the press center of the Novosibirsk mayor's office told TAIGA.info, 57,000 rubles were allocated for these purposes.

By decision of the Board of Trustees of the Republican Target Program for the Prevention of Poverty in the Republic of Tyva, targeted social assistance was provided to 20 citizens who found themselves in an emergency situation at the Kyzyl-Cherbi ice crossing, on January 19, 2006. According to the press service of the government of the Republic of Tuva, a total of 60 thousand rubles were allocated, 3 thousand for each victim.

President Leonid Potapov expressed condolences to the people of Turkmenistan, family, relatives and friends on the death of Saparmurat Niyazov.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Yenisey DOK company launched a plant for the production of pellets - fuel pellets from timber processing waste. Investments in this project amounted to more than 200 million rubles, Europe will become the main market for the new fuel - the Krasnoyarsk company has already signed a number of contracts for the supply of pellets. However, other timber processors believe that the cost of transporting such products from Siberia will be too high.