The court found Kirill Toropov, ex-Minister of Industrial Policy and Forestry of the Irkutsk Region, guilty of fraud. He received two years in a penal colony. Toropov's case was considered by the Meshchansky District Court in a special regime. The former official pleaded guilty. The court sentenced the ex-minister to two years in a penal colony, told the IrkutskMedia website. the press service of the court Toropov was arrested by the court for two months at the end of October 2014.

Rostelecom presents the New Year's online game My Christmas Tree. Anyone can plant their own digital spruce anywhere in Russia and the world. The taller and more elegant the Christmas tree, the more chances to win. The game will last until January 8, 2017, and on the eve of the Old New Year the winners will be determined. Digital Christmas trees are displayed on a virtual map, the rating of players' achievements can be viewed online.

14 Novosibirsk small and medium-sized businesses have chosen Rostelecom as a provider of mobile communications services. They purchased more than 350 SIM cards for their employees. The new product, combined with fixed telephony, digital TV or high-speed Internet, can significantly save on communication services. Business customers have already been able to appreciate the benefits of service packages from a single operator.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the SK began an investigation into the death of two detainees who were in the pre-trial detention center-1. In one case, the man was injured during a household fight, investigators say. In the second - involved persons are installed. © Centrictv.com According to SK, the first crime was committed on December 1. A quarrel occurred between the victim and the suspect, as a result of which the 26-year-old detainee hit the cellmate on the head several times.

Rosrybolovstvo will introduce a complete ban on the catch of the Baikal Omul from 2017 to 2019. However, it may take more time to make up for this type of fish. © Ria.ru “In fact, three years are such a period of more monitoring observations. Science tells us that in general we will need up to five years, if we really see that the supply is so undermined - we will practically have to be restored again, ” said Ilya Shestakov, the head of the Federal Reserve.

Omsk entrepreneur Roman Rudakov demands from the photographer Vladimir Kudrinsky, who released a photo album to the 300th anniversary of the city, 7.8 million rubles for copyright violations. The entrepreneur believes that the photographer illegally captured city sculptures - plumbing Stepanych and Lyubochka. Both statues are recognized as unofficial symbols of Omsk and are present on thousands of images associated with the city. © kukina-kat.livejournal.com. Plumber Stepanych.

The network of sanatoriums "Resort Belokurikha" announced plans to launch the production of wine and bread. First of all, products will enter the sanatorium and restaurants of the company, part of the sold in the city. © alcorecept.ru The performance of the lines of bakery products will be 4,500 products per hour. Baking will be delivered to power output of the network sanatoriums - about 1,500 people. The rest is to be sold at traders of Belokurikhi, the press service of the resort reports.

The Legislative Assembly of the Altai Territory appealed to the State Duma with a request to change the federal law on the prevention of HIV distribution. Deputies proposed to introduce forced treatment. © GORODSKIEVESTI.ru The Committee of the Regional Parliament on Health and Science under the leadership of United Russia Alexander Lazarev introduced a bill on the forced treatment of registered HIV-infected people. The Legislative Assembly approved the initiative unanimously on December 15.

In the capital construction of the FSUE Siberian Research Institute of Aviation named after Chaplygin (Sibnia), Vladimir Tyrin was arrested. He is suspected of fraud. © Anastasia Kableva Tyrin is under house arrest, the director of Sibnia, deputy of the City Council Vladimir Barsuk on September 15, told Interfax on Interfax. “Sybnia was searched, the investigation has seized a number of documents, now the circumstances of the case are being established,” he said.

Omsk City Council deputy Alexander Ivanov accused animal rights activists of violence against animals and readiness to “castrate deputies”. Activists urged him not to worry about the latter. United Russia Alexander Ivanov said that animal rights activists are "animal terrorists" during the discussion of the decision on keeping stray animals. “Even here [in the draft resolution of the session] they write about clipping, about the fact that castrated dogs cannot be touched.

The ex-heads of the state institution "Service of the Unified Customer" of the Trans-Baikal Territory were detained for multimillion-dollar bribes. They helped enterprises receive contracts for rollbacks. © ru.sputnik-tj.com Transbaikal investigators opened a criminal case of part 6 of Art.

The Krasnoyarsk police called the reason for the arson of the Church of the Nativity of Christ. The man went to such an act after the clergymen did not let him into the service. © vk.com/kraschp “Police officers previously established that Krasnoyar, while intoxicated, tried to get into the temple to the service, but the church employees did not let him in. After some time, he returned, doused the door with gasoline and set fire to, the police said.

The Novosibirsk Legislative Assembly adopted the regional budget in the second reading. The amendments were estimated at 2.5 billion rubles. © Anastasia Kableva. Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Andrei Shimkiv (left) and his first deputy Andrei Panferov The Legislative Assembly session examined the budget on the second reading on December 15.

The Novosibirsk government decided to create a school of the Olympic reserve on karate. The organization will be finally formed in 2017. © vk.com/nofk_wkf The regional government issued a decree on the creation of the State Autonomous Institution “Sports School of the Olympic Reserve for Karate” (SSHOR). The founders will be the departments of property and physical culture, follows from the document.

The reconstruction of the Ulan-Ude Airport is three months behind the schedule and is in violations, the regional administration said. The head of Buryatia Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn raised the question of changing the general contractor. The work is carried out by the structure of the Ministry of Defense "Spetsstroy Russia". Airportbaikal.ru Nagovitsyn, according to his press service, held a visiting meeting on the construction of the airport runway on the evening of December 14.