Residents of two houses on Baranchukovsky Lane today staged a picket not, as usual, at the mayor's office or the prosecutor's office, but right under the windows of their houses. But even there, on Baranchukovsky, far from the election battles, there were provocations and accusations. Residents of Baranchukovsky have been fighting for their resettlement for several years in a row. Now in the Leninsky court there are two processes going on in parallel.

Macedonia buries its president. The remains of Boris Trajkovski and the eight people who were with him on board the crashed plane were flown to the Macedonian capital Skopje on Wednesday. The president's coffin was installed in the parliament building, where residents of Macedonia and foreign delegations paid their last respects to him all day on Thursday.

A real war has broken out on the Internet between the authors of the computer viruses Mai Doom, Bugle and Nets-kai. New variants of viruses appear with alarming frequency, and each of them tries to expel strangers from the infected computer, bring it under its control, while they contain threatening messages with profanity addressed to competitors. This morning, new varieties of already known worms were recorded.

What is a curiosity in Tomsk turns out to be a bitter truth in Novosibirsk. The day before, Deputy Mayor Valery Maryasov was buried in the metropolis. He was killed in the entrance of his own house. This happened in the midst of the city mayoral election campaign. In comparison, all the PR dirt and all the mutual bites that our candidates exchange seem like childish pranks. Novosibirsk buries Vice Mayor Valery Maryasov. He was involved in city real estate.

In Tomsk, the deputy head of one of the correctional colonies was detained while accepting a bribe. The officer was caught red-handed by employees of the Tomsk FSB and the Department of Execution of Punishment. According to the information available to the intelligence services, in one of the Tomsk colonies, prisoners were offered conditional early release for a certain amount. As we were informed by the FSB press service, the extortionist demanded six thousand dollars for this.

The election campaign is entering a decisive phase. The amount of propaganda materials on the city streets is growing every day. And non-standard forms of political advertising are becoming increasingly popular. Such, for example, as inscriptions on fences. These inscriptions are replete with not only the center, but also the outskirts. What distinguishes the inscriptions from ordinary propaganda is the complete absence of censorship.