Director General of the BGTRK, deputy of the People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia Alexander Varfolomeev joined the faction of the Buryat regional branch of the United Russia party in the National Economy of the Republic of Belarus The statement of the deputy was signed today, March 1. The IRA "Vostok-Teleinform" was informed about this in the secretariat of the republican parliament. Thus, the faction of the "party of power" is 31 people. It is the most numerous in the NX RB.

Maria Ra, which bought at an auction for 182 million rubles. 56.4% stake in the Novosibirsk OAO "Central Market" will incur additional costs before proceeding with the reorganization of the enterprise. The Barnaul company will have to buy another 20% from minority shareholders. Experts believe that full control over the Central Market will eventually cost Maria Ra at least 250-300 million rubles.

Today, March 1, the hunting season for hare, fox and fur-bearing animals (squirrel, sable, column, ferret) has ended in the Kemerovo region. As a REGNUM correspondent was told in the regional public organization of hunters and fishermen, it was possible to hunt them in the Kuzbass lands, as well as throughout the country, since the fall of last year.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation put an end to the protracted dispute between the Tuvan branches of United Russia (ER) and the Russian Party of Life (RPZh). He declared void the elections to the parliament of the republic in four constituencies of Kyzyl, where the majority of the votes were received by the candidates of the RPL.

A regional association of youth associations has been created in the Irkutsk region to support national projects. Yesterday, the youth parliament of the Angara region took a decision on this at its first session. The initiator of the creation of the association was the head of the agency for youth policy of the regional administration, Igor Ivanov.

On March 2, the Tomsk Regional Court will decide on the issue of accepting for consideration the complaint of Alexander Makarov, who is in custody and temporarily suspended from office, about the refusal of the district election commission to register him as a candidate for the elections to the regional Duma.

RAO "UES of Russia" published the investment program of the holding's generating companies for 2006-2010. According to the data published in it, the investments of the Wholesale Generating Company No. 3 (OGK-3, Ulan-Ude) will amount to 76 billion rubles within five years, and the territorial generating company (TGK-14, Chita) - 5 billion rubles. Financial resources will be used to increase the capacity of power plants, which will avoid the predicted energy shortage in Transbaikalia.

A new head of the public security police has been appointed in the Novosibirsk Region. They became police colonel Alexei Kirillov, who previously headed the city police department of Novosibirsk, RIA Novosti was told in the information and public relations department of the regional police department. On Thursday, the head of the regional police department, Lieutenant-General Sergei Glushkov, introduced the new chief of the public security police to the personnel.

The Minister of Economic Development and Foreign Relations of the Republic of Buryatia, Tatyana Dumnova, is accused of exceeding her powers. According to investigators, Ms. Dumnova celebrated her birthday at the expense of the department, which cost her 30 thousand rubles, and also paid for the services of a lawyer in the amount of 15 thousand rubles. The Buryat government does not comment on the situation. However, in informal conversations, officials say that the case against Ms.

Thai newspaper The Nation reports that the killer of two Russian tourists may have been hired by a Thai woman who fears her Russian husband might leave her. “The Thai wife was afraid that she might go to a Russian woman and leave her, and she decided to eliminate a possible competitor,” a police source said.

The bodies of two Russian tourists, residents of Kemerovo Tatyana Tsimfer and Lyubov Svirkova, who were shot dead in Thailand on the night of February 24, were delivered to Novosibirsk by flight from Bangkok. As reported at the Novosibirsk Tolmachevo airport, the plane with the bodies of the murdered girls landed at the airport at 19.35 Moscow time.

Thai police have arrested a suspect in the murder of two Russian tourists in Pattaya. This is a 24-year-old local resident, according to The Nation. Arrested - 24-year-old Anuchit Lamlert, a resident of Chonburi province. He has already been accused of robbing foreigners in Pattaya. Thai police have arrested a suspect in the murder of two Russian tourists in Pattaya. This is a 24-year-old local resident, according to The Nation.

In accordance with the Decree of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation No. 205 dated February 27, 2007, the former governor of the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug Oleg Budargin was appointed assistant to the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Siberian Federal District Anatoly Kvashnin. This is reported by the district information center "Siberia".

An employee of Rosevrobank, a Buryat by nationality, was killed in Moscow. According to Anatoly Lekhatinov, an employee of the Buryatia presidential office, the murder was most likely committed on the basis of ethnic hatred. “The body of 28-year-old Nikolai Prokopiev with 26 stab wounds was found near his house the night before,” Lekhatinov said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the allocation of additional funds to address the socio-economic problems of the Chita region and the Aginsky Buryat Autonomous Okrug, which will host a referendum on merging into a single federal subject - the Trans-Baikal Territory on March 11.