Deputies of the Council of Deputies of Novosibirsk created a working group to prepare an appeal to the government of the Russian Federation on the possible abolition of the mandatory unified state exam (USE). The decision to create such a group was made at a meeting of the Permanent Commission for Social Development, a correspondent of TAIGI.info reports on March 3.

The government of the Irkutsk region has created a working group on the problems of the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill (BPPM). The first deputy chairman of the government of the Irkutsk region, Sergei Sokol, spoke about this at a working meeting of the cabinet of ministers, the press service of the governor and the government of the region reported to TAIGA.info on March 3.

Employees of Krasnoyarsk Airlines OJSC (KrasAir, the parent company of the former AiRUnion alliance) intend to picket at the monument to the heroes of the revolution of 1905-1907 on March 4.

From March 2 to April 19, long-distance trains of the Krasnoyarsk Railway, along with the usual ones, will have a special menu that corresponds to the traditions of the Great Lent of Orthodox Christians, the press service of Russian Railways told Taiga.info on March 3. The menu includes more than a dozen different dishes, cold snacks, as well as desserts and drinks based on berries and fruits.

The government of Transbaikalia applied to the government of the Russian Federation with the question of creating a national park "Chikoy" in the Krasnochikoysky district of the region. The corresponding order was adopted on March 3 at a meeting of the government presidium, the press service of the government told Taiga.info.

The owner of CJSC Kuzbasselement, located in the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Kemerovo Region, disappeared, having previously owed salaries to the employees of the enterprise and pledged all fixed assets to creditors, the press service of the Kemerovo Region Administration told TAIGA.info on March 3. According to the head of the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky Valery Ermakov, the plant is currently in a difficult situation. Since November 2008, the activity of the enterprise has been stopped.

The pension authorities of the Novosibirsk Region received 366 applications from young mothers who intended to use maternity capital to pay off housing loans. As the press service of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation for the Novosibirsk Region told TAIGA.info on March 4, the number of applications may continue to increase, since more than three thousand people have already applied for advice on this issue.

Mikhail Rudnev Julia Drokova Vedomosti - Novosibirsk 03.03.2009, No. 37 (2307) Corel filed for bankruptcy on February 17, the date of consideration has not yet been set, according to the website of the Arbitration Court of the Novosibirsk Region. *Last hope Fifteen construction companies in the Novosibirsk region received guarantees from the regional administration for bank loans. In January, Governor Viktor Tolokonsky ordered to allocate 1 billion rubles for this. from the regional budget.

At the end of February, the collection of modern ballets of the Novosibirsk Opera House was replenished with the second creation on our stage by Edward Liang - Immortal Beloved. The name of the ballet is translated in different ways - "Immortality in Love" or "Immortal Beloved". In any case, it sounds pretentious and conceptual. The name of the choreographer does not need a special introduction in Novosibirsk.

In the Kemerovo region, the chairman of one of the examination commissions of the Kemerovo Medical Academy will appear before the court for committing an official crime, according to the official website of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.

A rather unusual theft from a grocery store was prevented on March 3 at night by private security officers in Barnaul. According to Natalya Guseva, press secretary of the UVO at the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Altai Territory, at about 02.20 one of the residents of the house on Nikitin Street contacted the police, alarmed by the noise in the street. Two groups of detention were sent to the place.

A criminal case has been opened on the fact of encroachment on the life of a police officer. As TAIGA.info was informed by the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Irkutsk Region, on March 2, a senior district police officer, saving his life, killed and wounded two men who attacked him.

Georgy Tskhvirava took over as chief director of the Omsk Academic Drama Theater, which Yevgeny Marchelli left in August 2008, the press service of the Omsk Drama told TAIGA.info on March 3.

The play "Fiddler on the Roof" based on the play "Memorial Prayer" by Grigory Gorin, withdrawn from the repertoire after the death of the leading actor, is returning to the stage of the Krasnoyarsk Musical Theater on March 8, according to numerous requests from the audience, the press service of the theater told Taiga.info on March 3.

In Khakassia, the heads of three districts will get jobs in the government of the republic. Viktor Zimin will take the head of the Askizsky district, Abrek Cheltygashev, the head of the Beysky district, Vladimir Kraft, and the Ordzhonikidzevsky district, Ivan Vagner, into his apparatus.