Yesterday, the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Irkutsk Regional Prosecutor's Office announced the arrest of four people involved in the murder of Anatoly Sorokin, General Director of Irkutskspetsstroy. He was shot dead outside his office in March this year. Investigators stated yesterday: the murder was ordered, however, the customer, whose name is not disclosed, is still at large.

As it became known, Novosibirsk physicists Igor and Oleg Minin, previously suspected of disclosing state secrets and then found not to be involved, the FSB Department (UFSB) in the Novosibirsk Region returned part of the scientific literature seized during the investigation of the criminal case.

Yesterday in Krasnoyarsk the public forum “We believe in Putin!” started its work. More than 800 representatives of public non-political organizations of the Krasnoyarsk Territory adopted a resolution on the need to "continue the policy of Vladimir Putin." “We want Vladimir Putin to remain in politics even after leaving the presidency in March 2008. We see that his undertakings aimed at improving the life of the population of our country are of sufficient quality.

Nine people are registered as candidates for deputies of the Novosibirsk City Council from the single-mandate constituency No. 6 in the Zheleznodorozhny district. By-elections will be held here on December 2 (simultaneously with the elections of deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation) in connection with the death of deputy Vladimir Grigoriev.

The New Growth Fund, a private equity fund managed by Troika Capital Partners (a division of the Troika Dialog Group of Companies), has acquired a minority stake in URSA Bank's ordinary shares from the SM Group, said Igor Kim, Chairman of the Board of Directors of URSA Bank. “We signed an agreement with Troika Dialog on the sale of 7.94% of the bank's shares,” added Oleg Kirillov, CEO of SM Group, noting that SM Group remains a shareholder of URSA Bank with an 11% stake in its shares.

Gambling companies of Kuzbass are resisting pressure from local authorities, who announced in August this year their intention to liquidate the gambling business in the region, as "violating federal law." One of them managed to win a dispute with the regional police department in an arbitration court and return 79 gambling machines confiscated during police raids in August this year.

Yesterday, in the Novosibirsk Regional Court, a jury delivered a guilty verdict to traffic police officers, lieutenants Sergei Bovkun and Alexander Demidenko, who were charged by the prosecutor's office with attempted bribery. The jury unanimously found the traffic cops guilty.

Another new player will appear on the Novosibirsk grocery market this year - the first three Polyana supermarkets are going to be opened here by RegionMart, a Kemerovo company. Experts believe that the Kemerovo residents chose not the best time to start in the Siberian capital, where trading companies today experience an acute shortage of workers.

Yesterday, at a session of the Novosibirsk City Council, communist deputies, indignant at the "unprecedented" use of administrative resources in favor of "one political party," invited their colleagues to discuss the current situation. However, the rest of the deputies did not support this proposal and suggested that their colleagues prove the use of the administrative resource in other places - in court, the prosecutor's office and the election commission.

Two sisters, a one-year-old and a three-year-old, died in a fire in a private house in Kemerovo, a representative of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation for the Kemerovo region told RIA Novosti on Thursday. "A private house in the Zavodskoy district of the regional center caught fire the day before. Neighbors noticed fire and smoke and reported this to the rescue service by mobile phone," the source said.

The West Siberian transport prosecutor's office has revealed numerous violations of the rules for the use of air transport by residents of Siberian regions that own light and ultralight aircraft, Sergey Belikov, head of the department for supervision over the implementation of laws in transport and in the customs authorities of the prosecutor's office, told RIA Novosti.

The election committee did not confirm the fact of violations of the law in the campaign materials of the Communist Party of Novosibirsk, in particular, the compromise of a number of parties, which were announced by the FSB, Stanislav Palamarchuk, chairman of the territorial election commission of the Soviet district of Novosibirsk, told RIA Novosti.

The prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into the death in Novosibirsk of the owner of the Siberian Orchid flower shop chain, Irina Shipulina, who threw herself out of the window of a room on the 19th floor of the Novosibirsk hotel on October 30, Olesya Tikhonova, senior investigator of the railway investigation department of the investigative committee under the Russian prosecutor's office, told reporters.

Police officers liquidated a large-scale production of counterfeit discs with films and software in the Novosibirsk region, a representative of the press service of the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia told RIA Novosti.

The West-Siberian transport prosecutor's office revealed various violations in the operation of aircraft parts from several Siberian airlines, Sergey Belikov, head of the department for supervision over the implementation of laws in transport and customs authorities of the prosecutor's office, told RIA Novosti on Thursday. "The problem of depreciation of the aircraft fleet is very relevant today.