Recently, the Angarsk City Court of the Irkutsk Region sentenced a 52-year-old drug trafficker to 10 years in prison, accused of supplying narcotic drugs to the territory of correctional colony No. 15 in the city of petrochemists. The investigation lasted six months.

One person died as a result of a bank collapse on the Inya River in the city of Toguchin, Novosibirsk Region, on May 18. According to the press service of the regional police department, the Zhiguli car, in which the driver was located, was standing on the bank, when suddenly the edge of the bank began to slide into the river, dragging the vehicle with it.

A criminal case has been opened on the fact of inflicting bodily harm on police officers who on May 6 guarded public order at an unauthorized rally near Narymsky Square in Novosibirsk. Recall that local residents blocked the street in 1905 and Narymskaya street in protest against the construction of the square.

Three Protocols of Intentions between the University of Messina and Novosibirsk State University, which represent another building block in the process of internationalization of our university, were signed on May 15 at the premises of the Rector's Office.

In Khakassia, a criminal case has been initiated against two officials of the Ministry of Finance and Economy of the Republic of Kharkiv. Officials are suspected of committing a crime under Part 2 of Art. 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (misappropriation or embezzlement).

The public prosecutor at the trial in the case of the head of the Kargatsky district of the Novosibirsk region, Nikolai Migda, who is accused of taking a bribe, asks the Novosibirsk Regional Court to sentence the official to 9 years in prison in a strict regime colony. "In addition, I asked the court to deprive the defendant of the right to hold public office for a period of three years," Vladimir Samochernov, the state prosecutor at the trial, said on May 19.

The governor of the Tomsk region, Viktor Kress, spoke in favor of tightening the administrative code of the region on the issues of littering territories, the press service of the regional administration reports. “Fines for a cigarette butt thrown out of a car window should not be lower than 1-1.5 thousand rubles.

The fire occurred on Monday at the Omsk oil refinery, there were no casualties, an employee of the propaganda department of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation told RIA Novosti. At 09.54 (06.54 Moscow time), the operator on duty received a message to the rescue service about a fire at an oil processing plant. "The fire was assigned the fourth level of complexity out of five possible," the source said.

The presence of antibodies to the N5 flu virus in the blood serum was detected during laboratory tests of a wild migratory bird in 3 regions of the Altai Territory and 3 samples from a wild migratory bird on Lake Spros-Nur in the Republic of Tuva. The presence of antibodies to the N5 flu virus in the blood serum was detected during laboratory tests of a wild migratory bird in 3 regions of the Altai Territory and 3 samples from a wild migratory bird on Lake Spros-Nur in the Republic of Tuva.

On May 18, an electrical substation burned down in the village of Borkovo, Novosibirsk Region. According to the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Novosibirsk Region, as a result of the incident, eight private houses were left without electricity. The substation belongs to Maslyaninsky Distribution Zone. The alleged cause of the fire is the careless handling of fire by an unidentified person.

A little more than three weeks are left before the end of the Seven Wonders of Russia contest, which the Rossiya TV channel is holding together with the Izvestia newspaper, Mayak radio and the Vesti.Ru Internet portal. The Krasnoyarsk Pillars Reserve left the top seven over the weekend, along with the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery and the previous leader, the Kungur Ice Cave. This time, Mamaev Kurgan and the Motherland statue took the lead.

"A look through the years" - this is the name of the exhibition from the funds of the museum-reserve "Tomskaya Pisanitsa". It opened on May 19 in the premises of the Regional Museum of Local Lore. In total, the funds of the Museum-Reserve contain more than 20 thousand exhibits. Today, more than 500 exhibits are presented to visitors of the Kemerovo Museum. Most of the exposition is a copy of the rock paintings.

On May 23 and 24, the Omsk State Drama Fifth Theater will host the premiere of the romantic comedy by A. S. Griboedov and P. A. Katenin “Student” The basis of the performance was the comedy of the same name, written in 1817 by A. S. Griboyedov in collaboration with P. A. Katenin and never seen the light on the stage of the theater during the lifetime of the authors. Production director Daniil Beznosov, production designer Mikhail Kukushkin are working on the creation of the performance.

The case of an attempt to deliberately infect a person with HIV infection was transferred to the Ingodinsky District Court of Chita, an employee of the Investigative Department of the RF Investigative Committee for the Trans-Baikal Territory reported on May 19.

More than three thousand guests and participants of creative contests and competitions will come to Irkutsk in early July to take part in the International Buryat National Festival "Altargana-2008". This was reported in the organizing committee of the festival after counting applications from the subjects of the Russian Federation, as well as countries of near and far abroad. In total, 25 delegations will come to the international forum of the Buryat people.