On Friday, the final public hearings on the master plan of the city were held at the Irkutsk mayor's office. During the month of discussions, this document, which determines the development of Irkutsk until 2020, received 22 comments, mainly related to transport aspects and issues of the external appearance of the city.

Yesterday, the prosecutor's office of the Krasnoyarsk Territory opened a criminal case against the management of Krasnoyarsk Heavy Machinery Plant LLC. According to Elena Pimonenko, senior assistant to the prosecutor for media relations, the case was initiated under Part 2 of Art.

The Fifth Siberian Gay and Lesbian Festival will take place in Omsk on July 14–15. Svetlana Bondarenko, member of the board of the public organization Favorit, announced this yesterday. According to the organizers, due to the fact that photos from a similar event last year got into the press, the selection of participants will be tougher. The fifth anniversary festival will be dedicated to "myths and legends". Like last year, it will take place in a tent camping in the suburbs of Omsk.

The Omsk prosecutor's office opened a criminal case on the fact of an accident that occurred in the park of the Soviet District of Omsk. According to the press service of the Omsk Region Prosecutor's Office, on May 16, a five-year-old girl fell out of the Skat Simulator attraction - the door of the device opened spontaneously. In the children's clinical hospital, the child was diagnosed with a compression fracture of the 9th thoracic vertebra.

Yesterday in the center of Omsk on Leninskaya Gorka there was a picket of workers of FSUE "Omsktransmash". About 200 protesters with slogans and banners demanded that the Russian government pay back wage arrears. Today, the bankrupt tank plant owes its employees 175 million rubles.

In the Republic of Altai, the court considered the third case of the murder in August last year of Omsk journalist Alexander Petrov and three members of his family. Bogdan Chichiekov was sentenced to one year of probation for concealing the crime: according to the prosecutor's office, he helped the murderer Ruslan Kulish destroy the evidence.

Yesterday the mayor's office of Tomsk announced that the conflict with the transport workers, who announced an indefinite strike on Monday, had been settled. The movement of passenger private buses has been restored. In addition, the mayor's office promised to employ about 200 drivers who were left without work after the closure of two city routes.

One of the largest logistics operators in Siberia, the Yutland group of companies (Novosibirsk), intends to get into the restaurant business in earnest. Until the end of the year alone, the company is going to spend more than $3 million on this, opening eight establishments of different concepts, two of which will be developed according to the network principle.

Yesterday, the Arbitration Court of the Krasnoyarsk Territory ruled on the claim of the regional OFAS against the Regional Energy Commission (REC). OAO Krasnoyarskenergo's tariffs for connecting to grids have been declared illegal, and now the company may have to return about 1 billion rubles to consumers. However, the REC is already preparing a new resolution on payment for technological connection, which the antimonopolists will not be able to challenge.

On May 24, a wonderful show took place at the session of the Novosibirsk Regional Council. Unfortunately, besides the deputies themselves and the staff of the apparatus, only journalists could watch this show. This show certainly deserved to be shown on television, so that voters could once again flinch, watching how shameful their chosen ones behave. On the one hand, nothing special happened. "United Russia" took away all the committees from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

News leaked to the press that baby carriages Maclaren firms, which are considered dangerous in the United States and have already injured several dozen children, will be sold without restriction in Novosibirsk. Shops in the city have already ordered several thousand of these strollers, which shocks many parents. According to angry moms and dads, strollers for children are a thing in which details that can harm the health of their child are simply unacceptable.

June 29 - July 1, 2007 in Gorny Altai will take place one of the central PR-events of the region - the Second All-Russian Forum on Public Relations "PR-Hunting!" with the public (RASO) and a branch of the Russian Association of Students in Public Relations (RASSO) at AltSU. About 150 students and teachers of PR, advertising and marketing will take part in the event. To date, 100 applications for participation in the forum have been submitted.

On May 29, 2007 at 18.00 the Press Club of the Novosibirsk Union of Journalists will hold a press conference of Viktor Kozodoy, Rector of the Siberian Academy of Management and Mass Communications, Deputy of the Novosibirsk City Council. Five candidates declared their desire to head one of the largest universities in the country.

Three of the seven miners injured yesterday in a methane explosion at the Yubileinaya mine in Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo region, are in serious condition, a spokesman for the regional health department said on Friday. “Two victims are in the scientific and clinical center for the health of miners (the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky). One of them with combined injuries is in a critical condition,” the source said.

Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory postponed the issue of considering the candidacy of Alexander Khloponin, nominated by the President of Russia for the post of governor of the united region. This decision was made by parliamentarians on Friday at the second meeting of the session of the Legislative Assembly. “Today, the candidacy presented by the president for the post of governor of the region will not be agreed upon.