The Ministry of Energy of Russia, on behalf of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, prepared a preliminary version of the plan for the restoration work at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP and sent it to the interested executive authorities and organizations for approval, the press service of the ministry reported on October 2.

As part of the investigation, arrests were imposed on six real estate objects belonging to the ex-head of the Siberian Rostekhnadzor Leonid Baklitsky. Among them are two apartments in Novosibirsk, one in Moscow, a country house and a cottage in the Altai Territory.

Celebrations dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the Barnaul spiritual education and the 15th anniversary of the revival of the Barnaul diocese began in the Altai Republic. Delegations from the Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Tobolsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Kemerovo dioceses will take part in the celebrations, a spokesman for the government of the Altai Republic told TAIGE.info on October 2.

October 7 at the Krasnoyarsk Museum and Exhibition Center will open an exhibition of People's Artist of Russia Toivo Ryannel "My White Light". It will start a series of exhibitions in Russia, Finland and Germany, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the artist, an employee of the press service of the main department of culture of the Krasnoyarsk administration told TAIGA.info on October 2.

On October 2, the Altai Regional Court announced the verdict to the former director of the branch of the Russian Federal Property Fund (RFBR) in the Altai Territory, Yevgeny Zvyagintsev, and his accomplice Mikhail Roshchupkin. The men were found guilty of accepting bribes on a large scale. Zvyagintsev was sentenced to eight years in a strict regime colony, Roshchupkin - to three years in a strict regime colony, a court official told Taiga.info.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Novosibirsk Region (SU SKP) summed up the results of the investigation of criminal cases of corruption for nine months of 2009, Marina Kinzhalova, senior assistant to the head of media relations of the investigative department, told Taiga.info on October 2.

The trial of the former head of the Siberian department of Rostekhnadzor Leonid Baklitsky, accused of taking bribes in the amount of more than one million rubles, after repeated transfers, began in the Novosibirsk Regional Court on October 2, RIA Novosti reported.

The first international festival of architecture, design and art "Siberian Pyramid" will be held on October 3-10 in Omsk shopping gallery "Siberian Pyramid". For the first time, the general public will see the presentation of the Omsk city center development plan, an employee of the gallery's press service told TAIGA.info on October 2.

A 33-year-old resident of the city of Ulan-Ude is accused of violating the secrecy of correspondence and other communications of citizens (part 1 of article 138 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), according to the website of the UPC RF.

The guilty verdict against the raiders who seized several motor transport enterprises of Irkutsk in January 2005 has entered into force, an employee of the press service of the Irkutsk Oblast Department of the RF Investigative Committee told Taiga.info on October 2. 11 people, including two police officers, were brought to criminal responsibility for committing fraud. “The Sverdlovsky District Court of Irkutsk sentenced 10 participants in the crime to conditional imprisonment for various terms.

Hydrotechnical structures, hydraulic turbine plants and electrical equipment of the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station fully comply with the approved safety standards, rules and mandatory operation requirements.

On September 14, 2009, the Federal Arbitration Court of the East Siberian District confirmed the legitimacy of the actions of the Buryat OFAS to include a group of persons as part of JSC Holding Company Siberian Cement, LLC ZapSibCement, LLC Timlyuisky Cement in the register of business entities with a market share more than 35%, an employee of the press service of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia told TAIGA.info on October 2.

The prosecutor's office of the Ust-Abakansky district of Khakassia initiated a pre-investigation check against the former director of MUE "SorskTeploComplex" Kalizhanov, as a result of which the fact of embezzlement of 182 thousand rubles from the enterprise was revealed. A criminal case has been initiated under part 3 of article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (misappropriation or embezzlement).

Interactive project "Question to the Architect" was launched as part of the Days of Architecture in Novosibirsk. Anyone can ask a professional architect about anything in the field of design and construction of buildings, Oleg Zenkov, curator of the Days of Architecture-09 in Novosibirsk, told TAIGE.info on October 2. Interactive project "Question to the Architect" was launched as part of the Days of Architecture in Novosibirsk.

The branch of JSC FGC UES - Main Electric Networks (MES) of Siberia - is rapidly building a 220 kV transmission line Beya - Askiz in the Republic of Khakassia. The need to perform these works is due to the complex electric power regimes that have arisen in the Khakass energy system after the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, Irina Gerasimova, a specialist in the group for interaction with the media and authorities of MES Siberia, told Taiga.info on October 2.