According to the traffic police, the day before at eight in the evening a Gazelle car hit a pedestrian near the intersection of the Kuzovlevsky Trakt and the road to the village of Sputnik. A 64-year-old man was walking from the direction of the village. He crossed the roadway of the Kuzovlevsky tract in the wrong place. The Tomsk resident died from his injuries at the scene. According to the traffic police, the 33-year-old driver was driving a Gazelle with an expired driver's license.

It was built by gas workers next to the Kedr sports complex. However, athletes were not allowed to attend the opening ceremony. The track and field athletes were never able to run on tracks made to world standards. Instead, managers of Gazprom, Tomsktransgaz and guests were shown a big festive concert. The track and field arena of this level is the first outside the Urals. Its total area exceeds 11 thousand square meters, the construction cost was 750 million rubles.

The Commissioner for Children's Rights under the President of Russia worked today in Tomsk. He received an invitation from the governor back in October. After two emergency situations that occurred in the region involving children and police officers - a brutal beating of a boy in Zavarzino and an accident in Kargaska, which resulted in the death of a girl. However, Astakhov did not go to Kargasok. He also did not meet the injured boy.

Valery Karpin, general director and head coach of the capital's Spartak club, stated this in an interview with Sport Express. “Yes, he will get his chance,” is how Valery Karpin answered the question of whether FC Tom player Artem Dzyuba will start the new season at Spartak, reports sport-express.ru. Let us remind you that “Tom” forward Artem Dzyuba was rented by “Tom” from Moscow “Spartak”. In the 24 games that Dzyuba played last season for Tom, he scored 10 goals.

The Prime Minister during the program “Conversation with Vladimir Putin. Continuation” answered questions regarding the unrest in Moscow. “We need to stop manifestations of extremism from all sides. “You can’t paint either Caucasians or people of other nationalities with a general brush, although, of course, there is no such nationality as a Caucasian,” Putin said. “But any extreme manifestations must be strictly suppressed.”

Photo: www.domputnika.ru The diaries of Tomsk travelers were appreciated by professional photographers. The results of the competition were summed up at the House of Travelers. The winners were chosen in three categories. Kristina Govorushko’s work “The Pskov Kremlin” was recognized as the best in the “Travel around Russia” category. In the “Extreme Travel” category, the jury gave victory to Oleg Novitsky and his work “Victory.

Today is the first official day of selling Christmas trees. The mayor's office has identified 64 points for trading in the main symbol of the New Year. This is slightly less than last year. However, despite the permission, most of the Christmas tree markets were empty today.

A chronicle of events on the square near the Kievsky railway station was published on livejournal.ru. On December 15, several thousand young people came to the Evropeisky shopping center. Blogger zyalt writes: From the very morning, the entire area around the Evropeisky shopping center was cordoned off by riot police and internal troops. There were a lot of police, all approaches were well guarded, young people were searched and their documents were checked.

The wood processing plant "Partner-Tomsk" for the production of MDF boards was officially opened today in Tomsk. The first furniture slab that came out of the factory press was signed by Siberian Plenipotentiary Representative Viktor Tolokonsky and Governor of the Tomsk Region Viktor Kress. The production capacity of the enterprise will be 264 thousand cubic meters of slabs per year, the press service of the regional administration reports.

The Prime Minister commented on criticism of the police. “We criticize law enforcement agencies a lot and rightly,” said Vladimir Putin. - It is no coincidence that serious reforms are planned. But when fighting against negative manifestations, even here we cannot paint everyone with the same black paint.” According to the Prime Minister, the public must understand that there is order and it must be maintained.

A set of exercises for improving the health of the spine and joints was developed by Vladimir Efremov. He calls himself a specialist in restorative medicine. For the second year now, he has been traveling from Novosibirsk to Tomsk to conduct free outdoor gymnastics for everyone. Vladimir himself says that he does this to promote a healthy lifestyle. Today, the first exercise took place on the street near the Pobeda sports complex.

The day before at 18:00 in the village at the intersection of Nekrasova and Tekhnicheskaya streets, a UAZ driver did not allow a snowmobile with sleds to pass. Buran was moving along the main road, the traffic police press service notes. As a result of the accident, a 22-year-old man driving a snowmobile was injured.

Representative of the Kyrgyz diaspora Rustam Abdumanapov told us this. At the same time, he noted that a repetition of the Moscow riots in our city is hardly possible. “Tomsk is distinguished by tolerance, it is a calmer city than Moscow,” added Rustam Abdumanapov, “so we are calm about our loved ones.” Let us remind you that on December 11, a 5,000-strong rally was held in the capital on Manezhnaya Square, accompanied by nationalist slogans.

This is how the Russian Prime Minister answered the question of a resident of Irkutsk: “Do you think it’s fair that Khodorkovsky is still in prison?” “I also, like the famous character of Vladimir Vysotsky, believe that a thief should be in prison. The court charged Mr. Khodorkosky with theft. The count goes into billions. Khodorkovsky's crime was proven in court. In addition, the head of the Yukos security service is in prison for murder. So did he really do this on his own initiative?

Residents of Russia asked Vladimir Putin today about the Yukos case and the fate of Khodorkovsky, the riots on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow, interethnic hostility, housing and utility problems, as well as the lack of places in kindergartens, small pensions and benefits. Today he spoke with people live for 4 hours and 25 minutes. The Prime Minister was asked more than 2 million questions using SMS messages, email, and multi-channel telephones. On air, Vladimir Vladimirovich answered 88.