Every year in February, Greece hosts a three-week carnival - Greek Maslenitsa! The holiday takes its name - “apocries” - from the name of the season in which the peasants ran out of meat: “apo creas” - “without meat”. Apokries is a tradition from the Greek countryside. Traditionally, folk carnivals are held in different areas of Greece, where ancient traditions of dressing up have been preserved or restored.

Assessments of the situation around the Tom football club are contradictory. Criticism of the opacity of the club budget and weak management has been repeatedly expressed by representatives of regional authorities. Comments from Tom's management were heard less often.

“Tomsk schoolchildren have lost interest in physical and mathematical sciences,” regional education officials note. However, exact and natural sciences should become a priority for the region, which received the title INO-Tomsk. The first step towards improving the level of physics and mathematics education was the opening of a specialized lyceum. On September 1, he started working at the former Mariinsky Gymnasium. According to the director, the school does not accommodate everyone.

This was reported by the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. “Since February 1 of this year, road patrol inspectors have received new “Light” devices, which allow measurements at very low temperatures. Now traffic police officers measure the light transmission of glass at ambient temperatures from minus 40 to plus 40 ° C. The devices are already All patrol cars and traffic police posts are equipped,” the department notes.

This was reported by the official website of FC Tom. “Tom’s opponent will be FC Concordia Chiazhna (17th place in League I of the Romanian Championship). The match is scheduled to start at 20:30 Tomsk time. An agreement has also been reached on test matches on February 9 with Velezh. Monstar (8th place in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina) and on February 12 with “Belshina” Bobruisk (5th place in the Major League of Belarus),” notes the team’s website.

In 1893, on January 31, the trademark "Coke" was registered. A few years earlier, American pharmacist John Pemberton was trying to find a new painkiller. By taking sugar syrup and caffeine and adding coca decoction, he got a stimulating, sweet, brown drink. There is still a legend that he added something else there, and this secret of his remained a secret.

According to the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, an accident involving two cars occurred today at about 15.30 hours. The accident occurred on the road from the old communal bridge towards Timiryazevo. Due to a collision between two passing cars, the Toyota Camry left the roadway and hit a tree. “As a result of the accident, the male driver and passenger of the Toyota Camry died on the spot.

During the procession "For Fair Elections" along Lenin Avenue to Sq. About a thousand Tomsk residents walked through the New Cathedral, reports Chas Rush. According to the rally participants, what brought them here first of all was the “desire for change.” “We were brought here by the desire for change. We can no longer look at this disgrace that has been going on for 12 years. And then they are pushing us the same amount. We don’t want this.

Hello, we have an HOA called Uyut and we have a problem: they charge us money for repairs, but there is no repair of any kind. They take money from us but are not going to do it, for example, we pay for ONE and they don’t do motion sensors or lights with a timer to turn the lights on and off, but they take money every month and year. sort out the chaos HELP.

This was reported by the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. “On Friday, the duty department received a message from an elderly woman. The pensioner said that in the afternoon a man called her and, posing as her son, said that while walking down the street, he slipped, fell and broke his nose. Now he needs a cosmetic stitch The operation costs 25 thousand rubles. The woman handed over the required amount to her son’s “friend”, “Valery,” who arrived after the call.

The intrigue with the appointment of a governor in Tomsk is close to resolution. This week it became known that Victor Kress will not be reappointed governor. Victor Kress, who has headed the region for 20 years, will leave his post in March 2012, when his term of office expires. Contenders for the governor's seat were discussed at closed consultations between the leaders of the Tomsk United Russia party and the Moscow leaders of this party and representatives of the Kremlin administration.