The Tomsk News newspaper reports this. The panel of the regional court considered the cassation submission against the verdict in a criminal case against the famous Tomsk businessman Igor Skorobogatov. As a result, the court reduced Skorobogatov’s suspended sentence from five years to three, leaving the amount of the fine and probation the same.

Traffic along Baltiyskaya Street will be open by September - Deputy Mayor Vladimir Okkel announced this today. The construction of the road junction is scheduled to be completed next year. For this purpose, about one billion rubles will be required in 2011.

Today in the Camp Garden, 15 Tomsk residents were escorted to serve in the Presidential Regiment. The regiment is replenished by Tomsk residents every year. Of the fifteen privates, eight are residents of Tomsk. The rest were drafted from the Kolpashevsky, Kargasoksky and Zyryansky districts. Before being sent to the regiment, conscripts were trained according to a special program, in which special attention was paid to the combat step.

There is a threat of flooding of populated areas in the Chainsky district. At a meeting of the Commission for Emergency Situations of the Chainsky District the day before, it was decided to declare a state of emergency in the region due to the increase in water levels on the rivers of the region. In order to protect the population and territories of the region, the composition of the emergency response headquarters has been approved and round-the-clock duty has been organized.

A large oil refinery will be opened in the Tomsk region. In the Tomsk region, a kilometer from Semiluzhki, near the village of Naumovka, they plan to build an oil refinery with a production volume of gasoline and diesel fuel from one and a half to 3 million tons per year.

A program for recycling old cars continues in the Tomsk region. A special organization, Vtorchermet, recycles cars. Old cars are brought to the site for recycling every day, starting from the first half of March. Now about 400 cars are ready for disassembly. Workers dispose of 5-6 cars per day. It is expected that by November 1, about 500 old cars will be disposed of in the region.

Drilling rigs, winter hunting and logging - the romance of the Siberian north. The main subjects of the work of the artist Vladimir Grokhovsky. His exhibition is running in the Tomsk House of Artists. This is the artist's third solo exhibition. Although during Grokhovskaya’s lifetime he was not awarded a single solo exhibition.

The structure and principles of operation of the Tomsk-invest Internet portal were discussed at the mayor's office yesterday at a meeting of the investment committee. The portal will consist of several blocks. On the first page of the resource it is planned to post news interesting to investors. In the "About the City" block - statistical data, information about the directions of development and principles of Tomsk's investment policy.

According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, ice drift on the Ob River across the region has been completed. The flood situation is stable. Let us remind you that ice drift in the Tomsk region began on April 27. Its peak occurred on April 29, when, as a result of rising water in the Tom, the Black River was flooded.

Kindergarten at home. The mayor's office has launched a project for large families. Parents are offered to raise their children themselves, but for money. 33 families applied to participate in the program. But in 2010, only seven of them will be able to organize a garden at home. Specialists go to the applicants’ homes and check in what conditions the children live and whether they are being raised well.

Today, the Governor of the Tomsk Region, Victor Kress, visited the Kozhevnikovsky district, where he checked the readiness of the villagers for the sowing campaign. According to established tradition, a visit to the main breadbasket of the region in mid-May marks the start of a mass sowing campaign in the fields of the Tomsk region. This year, sowing is complicated by bad weather conditions, late spring, and tight deadlines. For comparison, last year the sowing season began on April 25.

Targeted assistance - according to this principle, it is now necessary to issue prescriptions for medicines to many preferential categories of citizens. There are simply not enough funds for all beneficiaries. Funding for the additional drug supply program is reduced every year.

Most are now in line. The program has been running for two months, but during this time only a few hundred program participants have switched to new cars. The program is valid for 9 months, until November. During this time, the Ministry of Industry and Trade must issue 200 thousand certificates for a discount of 50 thousand rubles when purchasing a new domestic car.

According to the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate, various versions are currently being pursued, eyewitnesses of the fire are being identified, and items seized at the scene are being examined. In the near future, a criminal case will be opened under Article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, “Intentional destruction or damage to property.” Let us remind you that on the morning of May 7, a fire broke out at the car market in Khromovka.

Anatoly Abramov said this at a meeting with the management of a private dispatch service. “The information that is collected there is simply necessary when we are reviewing the passenger transportation system,” emphasized Anatoly Abramov. Deputy Mayor for Economics and Finance Anatoly Abramov and Deputy Mayor for Urban Affairs Maxim Reznikov got acquainted with the technology and results of the work of the “Central Dispatch Service” organized by private carriers.