Children's sports school No. 5, which is located in the Metelitsa ski resort, is still without heat. Today our correspondents tried to figure out the reasons for this. But judging by the number of interview refusals received per day, this is a bit of a secret story. The Akademgorodok Public Utilities Plant does not provide heat to the ski resort. The fact is that there are large heat losses on the section of the heating main leading to Metelitsa. The plant decided to find out the reason.

Today the regional court is hearing a claim from Tomsk antimonopoly officials against local fuel suppliers. The reason for this lawsuit was another increase in prices at city gas stations. Over the past week, the price of 92-grade gasoline has risen by about 50 kopecks. In general, consumer prices for motor gasoline on average in Russia increased by 6 tenths of a percent. The oil workers themselves explain this increase by the high price of oil on the world market. It still continues to grow.

Tomsk has already begun to prepare for the New Year. According to city officials, 7 million 500 thousand rubles are needed for the holiday. But, apparently, only half of this amount will be allocated from the budget. Therefore, all the hope of the mayor’s office is on sponsors and on the fact that entrepreneurs themselves will take care of the festive decorations of the city. Today Tomsk is replete with anniversary symbols.

Vladislav Brock told reporters today about the results of the harvesting campaign, which has been going on in emergency mode for the last two months. However, for some reason the deputy governor was extremely reluctant to talk about the scale of losses that the villagers suffered this year. The Deputy Governor breathes a sigh of relief: finally all the field work is completed.

Extremely conflicting information is emerging not only about the health of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, but also about the place where he may be buried. Israeli authorities agreed that Arafat should be buried at his Muqata residence in Ramallah. A message immediately came from the official representative of Egypt. He claims that the funeral will take place in Cairo.