A meeting of federal officials with all regions was held in Moscow. The new government explained how local self-government will be structured. And most importantly, next year Moscow will take away half of their income from the territories. As a result, our region will be able to keep only twenty rubles out of a hundred earned. And the city will not have its own sources of income at all. The law on local self-government and the new budget code were held until after the presidential elections.

The traditional international exhibition of technologies and equipment for the oil industry has recently ended in China. Russia was represented there by the Yukos company, which has been supplying “black gold” to the Chinese since 1999. The red ribbon at petrochemical industry exhibitions in China is ceremoniously cut twice a year. 290 companies from 20 countries. Five thousand visitors in three days.

Representatives of the Tomsk Environmental Student Inspectorate went out to protest today. The new Forest Code, in their opinion, threatens our forests. As usual, not many people know the essence of the problem for certain; the rest are attached just in case. In this case, the student environmental inspectorate picketed over the adoption of the new Forest Code. The bill has already been approved in the first reading and is being finalized by the Ministry of Natural Resources.

It is quite possible that the regional draft commission met today in the Tomsk Officers' House for the last time. It may be sold soon. The Ministry of Defense is getting rid of so-called “unprofitable social facilities.” These included our House of Officers. “Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich!

TV 2 journalists received comments from the chief physician of the third city hospital. Let me remind you that from April 1, three departments of this medical institution must be closed. This decision was made by the city Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance Center. The sanitary condition of the hospital is such that repairs are urgently needed.

“Sharon, prepare black bags for yourself and your fellow citizens,” representatives of the Hamas movement made such a statement in response to the murder of their spiritual leader Sheikh Admed Yassin. Some 200,000 Palestinians followed the coffins of the Hamas founder, his son and bodyguards killed in an Israeli raid through the streets of Gaza on Monday. At dawn, Israeli Air Force helicopters fired three rockets as Yassin headed home after prayers.

The Cheremoshniki microdistrict was left without heat. The temperature in the batteries is maintained so that the heating system does not freeze. The reason for this, as they say, was the shutdown of one of the gas boilers at the Gorenergo enterprise. It was not only the management of the boiler house on Vodyanaya who refused to comment on the situation with the heat outage. No one explained why the boiler was stopped.

In China, in the vicinity of Beijing, large-scale restoration work has begun on the Great Wall of China. Officials are concerned that only a third of the country's main attraction remains. According to Chinese officials, crowds of tourists who are dismantling the wall into bricks are to blame. Until now, many different secrets, myths and legends are associated with this wonder of the world.

Rural teachers accused the regional administration of stirring up social tension in the regions. In their opinion, the abolition of utility benefits for rural educators could lead to a social explosion. Just before the New Year, on December 25, rural teachers picketed the White House. “No to the abolition of utility benefits for teachers!” - this slogan, like all others, seemed to have reached the ears of regional officials.

Tomsk scientists will save Yakutia. They developed a special creogel for repairing a dam in the city of Mirny. This dam has been holding the only fresh water reservoir in the area for forty years. Now it has begun to thaw and settle. Water flows out of the reservoir in thousands of tons. Thus, not only the residents of Mirny, but also the local diamond production were under threat. And now our chemists will intervene in the situation. Americans use similar creogels in oil production in Alaska.