Today is Social Worker's Day. Pensioners and the disabled are especially in dire need of the services of such people. Vladimir Yushkov is 89 years old. He has a second group disability. The pensioner's legs hardly work. Every movement is difficult. Resting right on the floor. Vladimir Ivanovich crawls around the house on a dog's skin - he has no other means of transportation. A pensioner was once told that by law he was entitled to a car.

“No attack on the social rights and interests of workers” - under this motto the trade unions will picket this coming Thursday. The reason for the protest was a bill introduced by the government to the State Duma. According to trade unions, the government's initiative infringes on Constitutional guarantees in the field of wages. Today the regional committee of independent trade unions of Russia talked about what the Tomsk protest action will look like.

Three convicts were released today from the third colony ahead of schedule. And this is not an amnesty, but the consequences of changes in the criminal code. If earlier releases occurred twice a week, now almost every day. With differences in details, three of those released today were found in prison on the same charge: acquisition, storage and sale of drugs. This is not an annual amnesty. This is a consequence of changes in the criminal code.

A diesel locomotive with journalists departed from the Tomsk I station today outside the schedule. The route was designed to show the most dangerous places, from the point of view of sanitary doctors. Tomsk railway workers decided to declare a fight against unauthorized dumps along their tracks. Having received two beautiful stations for the 400th anniversary of the city, they wanted more - a corresponding landscape along the entire route.

Three months before the anniversary, repairs to the Tomsk air gates began. The builders are confident that they will have time to complete all the work before August 15, and assure that the Tomsk airport will become a more modern and beautiful building than before. In two weeks, workers dismantled half of the airport. The only thing left to do is to rebuild everything. The concrete floor is covered with porcelain stoneware tiles. The walls are covered with plasterboard.

The unique pine trees of the Tomsk region may die from the invasion of the red pine sawfly - such forecasts were made by foresters a couple of weeks ago. And today forestry workers say that the invasion of the dangerous pest has been stopped. Just yesterday, one of the Tomavia crews was poisoning silkworms in the cedar trees of Teguldet. Today, at five in the morning, the pilots are again fully armed - they are saving the cedar tracts of the Tomsk region from the invasion of the red pine sawfly.