Do not drink, do not bring alcohol with you, do not sell alcohol within a radius of one and a half kilometers! But you can sing, dance, drink soda and use dry toilets to your heart's content - these are the rules of behavior at anniversary events in Tomsk. In total, there will be 7 festive venues in Tomsk. Today, the directors of four of them spoke about their programs.

Today there was a picket outside the regional prosecutor's office. Its organizers announced that they came out to protect the interests of residents of Komsomolsky Prospekt. True, not a single resident was at the picket. But this did not bother the organizers at all. The regional prosecutor's office has never seen anything like this. Picket without pickets.

Foresters estimate this year's walnut harvest to be a C minus. Now is the time for a cone buster. However, there is practically nothing to hit. Experts say that the cone did not grow due to weather and forest pests. The forester of the Bogashevsky district, Alexander Boltovsky, goes every day to the cedar forest near the village of Ipatovo. Checks how the seed nut is being harvested. This year the forestry needs to collect at least two tons, maximum - four.

American troops continued shelling the holy Iraqi Shiite city of Najaf. Machine gun fire can be heard in the city. A representative of the Shiite Mahdi Army, which is resisting the Americans, said that as a result of the shelling of the area where the tomb of Imam Ali is located, there were killed and wounded. The entire historical part of the city is blocked by American tanks. The city is being bombed by aircraft.