On Saturday, February 24, two Russian tourists who came to rest from Kemerovo were killed on the beach in the Thai resort of Pattaya. According to the local newspaper "Pattaya Daily News", the bodies of the girls were discovered by the police, who arrived at the scene at 6 am. In front of the Anataia Resort Hotel, police found the bodies of Russian tourists aged 25 and 30 lying on beach chairs. The girls' personal belongings remained untouched.

Estimates of officials - from e to yat For the second week now, the decision of the Ulyanovsk governor to involve all officials of the regional administration in testing in the Russian language has been discussed. The goal is quite strange - "to improve the educational level in the state and municipal bodies of the Ulyanovsk region." Forty questions for the test were compiled by local teachers of the "great and mighty" language.

The farther into the forest, the greener the "greens" The technopark construction project has finally reached public hearings, which took place earlier this week in the Stroitel Palace of Culture. But everything turned into a scandal. Members of the public, whom the authorities and developers call "green", were able to express their claims not at pickets and protests, as was done before, but in full-fledged dialogue with potential developers.

Responsible choice before elections In the city council, the likelihood of creating a deputy association of "A Just Russia" is considered by many to be quite high. It is possible that this will happen according to the decision of the federal leadership of the party, which the local "pravedrossy" will have to comply with. Meanwhile, United Russia, without waiting for the appearance of its main political competitor in the City Council, is most likely preparing to strengthen its positions.

The President of the Republic of Buryatia, Leonid Potapov, by his Decree, amended his previous Decree of May 7, 1999 "On streamlining the sale of alcoholic products on the territory of the Republic of Belarus." A time limit has been established for the retail sale of alcoholic products with an ethyl alcohol content of more than 15 percent of the volume of finished products for trade and public catering organizations located in built-in and attached premises to residential buildings from 23:00 of

In the Altai Territory, the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry extended the storm warning for February 26 and 27. All holiday weekends in the region - inclement weather, a REGNUM correspondent reports. The blizzard and strong wind began on Defender of the Fatherland Day, February 23. It was on this day that the Altai weather forecasters announced a storm warning, and a little later extended it until February 26. Now the wind has calmed down a little, but frosts have set in.

The governor of Kuzbass Aman Tuleev, commenting on the collapse at the Dzerzhinsky mine in the city of Prokopyevsk, said that a methane explosion occurred during mining. “At the time of the explosion, there were nine people in this area, and in total there were 220 people underground at the same time,” he told the round-the-clock TV channel Vesti. According to Tuleev, one person, electrician Zorin Yury Yuryevich, died. Two people received minor injuries and four miners were gassed and burned.

On February 20, in a house under construction on Zavertyaev Street in Omsk, a conflict broke out between two vocational school students and a Chinese citizen who works as a bricklayer at DSK-Stroybeton LLC. As RIA "Omsk-Inform" reported on February 22, according to preliminary information, Fu Feng Tsai started the fight using the techniques of oriental martial arts.

The auction for the sale of shares of OAO Tyvasvyazinform was declared invalid due to the lack of bids. This is stated in the message of the Russian Federal Property Fund (RFFI). As previously reported, the RFBR branch in the Krasnoyarsk Territory announced in December 2006 an auction for the sale of a block of shares in OJSC "Tyvasvyazinform" in the amount of 100% of the authorized capital.

The investigation into the murder of Russian tourists in the Thai resort of Pattaya has a video that can help solve the crime. Russian consul in Thailand Vladimir Pronin informed ITAR-TASS about it today. According to him, the video was made by one of the surveillance cameras located near the scene. Russian Ambassador to Thailand Yevgeny Afanasiev today personally met with the leadership of the investigation.

The investigation into the murder of two Russian tourists in the Thai resort of Pattaya continues. The victims of the crime were Tatyana Tsimfer, born in 1977, who arrived from Kemerovo on February 16. and Lyubov Svirkova, born in 1982 Their bodies were found on Saturday morning at Chomtien Beach. According to experts, the murder took place around 4-5 am on February 24.

One miner died under rubble at a mine in the Kemerovo region, four independently came to the surface. Earlier it was reported that the fate of one miner remains unknown. As ITAR-TASS was informed in the press service of the regional administration, on Sunday morning the roof collapsed at the mine named after Dzerzhinsky in the city of Prokopyevsk. At the time of the incident, there were 220 people in the mine. 215 of them were immediately brought to the surface.

According to the latest data, during the collapse of a mine in Prokopyevsk, Kemerovo region, one miner died, three more, who had been behind the rubble for several hours, independently climbed to the surface, the press service of the Siberian regional center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported. “One miner died, three left alive and healthy on their own,” said the representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

In Kuzbass on Sunday in the city of Prokopyevsk there was a collapse at the coal mine named after Dzerzhinsky, the press service of the administration of the Kemerovo region reported. "According to preliminary data, four miners are behind the rubble," the source said. According to him, the collapse occurred at 11.45 local time (07.45 Moscow time). There were 220 people in the mine at that moment. "All of them, except for four, were brought to the surface," the press service said.

On the evening of February 24, gray snow fell in the capital of the Altai Republic - Gorno-Altaisk. As the chief sanitary doctor of the republic, the head of the territorial department of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare of the Republic of Altai (Rospotrebnadzor) Leonid Shchuchinov, told a REGNUM correspondent on February 25, 1.5-2 cm of snow of anomalous color fell. Specialists of Rospotrebnadzor and other services took seven snow samples.