Shukshin Days ended on Sunday in the small homeland of the actor, director and writer Vasily Shukshin - in the Altai Territory. As part of the Shukshin Days, the IX Shukshin Film Festival was held in Altai, this year it received the status of an All-Russian Film Festival, the press service of the regional administration reports. The main prize of the festival was Pavel Lungin's film "The Island". The authors of the film were rewarded with a vase made at the Kolyvan stone-cutting factory.

On Sunday, July 22, in Novosibirsk, on the beach "Boomerang" (reservoir of the Novosibirsk hydroelectric power station) for the first time took place a city race on the rubber women Bubble Baba Challenge. Fifty thrill-seekers saddled their rubber girlfriends and challenged the water element. At the beginning of the event, it rained a little, then a strong wave rose on the reservoir, but nothing stopped the participants.

The vice-mayor of Omsk, director of the department of information policy and public relations, Alexander Golev, last week presented a "report" on the religious situation in Omsk at a staff meeting with the mayor.

The retail chain Sibirskaya Kopeechka will soon change its format. At the end of last week, 51 percent of the company's shares were acquired by Tomsk "RegionMart". It is known that all retail outlets of the network will be transformed into Polyana stores, developed by the new owner of the penny. Today Polyana includes, among other things, two hypermarkets in the Kemerovo region with a sales area of ​​6.5 thousand sq.m.

Pavel Lungin's film "The Island" became the winner of the IX All-Russian Shukshin Film Festival in Altai. As noted by the chairman of the jury of the film festival, the famous actor and film director Vasily Mishchenko, the film most fully corresponds to the motto of the festival "Moral is the truth." In total, seven Russian films were presented. // Radio Liberty

Homicide department The Kemerovo regional prosecutor's office yesterday completed an investigation into the case of four employees of the criminal investigation department of the Central Department of Internal Affairs of Novokuznetsk. According to the investigation, the police officers tortured the witness to extract the necessary testimony, and when he declared their methods of work to the prosecutor's office, they ordered his murder.

Irkutsk police have already detained six people suspected of attacking a tent camp that killed a man, said the head of the public relations department of the Russian Interior Ministry, police colonel Valery Gribakin. “Police officers during the operational-search activities detained four more suspects out of 13 persons who attacked the camp of tourists. Thus, the number of detainees increased to six people,” Gribakin said.