On March 3, the Tomsk Irish dance studio “In'Step” will hold the 1st Tomsk Open Irish Dance Championship “I-st Tomsk Open Feis”. The championship will be held under the auspices of the World Irish Dance Association. The head of the Irish dance studio, Yulia Astapova, told the TV2 news agency. “The international championship will bring together 170 participants from Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Omsk, Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo, Barnaul, Gorno-Altaisk, Tyumen, Moscow.

This year the fast will last from February 27 to April 14. “Lent begins seven weeks before Easter and consists of Lent - forty days and Holy Week - the week before Easter itself. Pentecost was established in honor of the forty-day fast of the Savior, and Holy Week - in remembrance of the last days of earthly life, suffering, death and burial of Christ. The total continuation of Lent together with Holy Week is 48 days,” says the Orthodox website.

Today at 11:00 am, the Governor of the Tomsk Region, Victor Kress, will open the Center for Reproductive Technologies in the regional perinatal center, the press service of the regional administration reports. “Specialists at the Center for Reproductive Technologies will be able to carry out about 200 cycles of in vitro fertilization per year.

The procession “For Fair Elections” took place on February 26 in Tomsk. According to the organizers, about seven hundred protesters marched along Lenin Avenue from Novo-Cathedral Square to the Youth Theater, chanting the traditional slogans for these actions. The most common slogan among them is “Russia without Putin.” The 4-meter figure of the candidate became the main art object of the current procession.

The head of the regional department of construction, architecture and road complex, Pavel Podgorny, gave comments to Rush Hour journalists on the criminal case initiated against him on January 13. The case was initiated under the article of the criminal code “Exceeding official powers.” “I categorize this not as an abuse of power, but as actions that for some reason are interpreted by the investigative authorities as an excess. We are talking about road construction.

The accident occurred on February 25 at 21.50 on Mira Avenue. This was reported by the press service of the traffic police. A 29-year-old driver was driving a VAZ-21074 in the middle row. A 53-year-old man was crossing the roadway in an unspecified location. “After the collision, the driver continued driving without stopping.

On February 26, the fourth action “For Fair Elections” took place in Tomsk. About 700 Tomsk residents took part in the procession along Lenin Avenue from Novo-Sobornaya Square to the Youth Theater. The main “object” of the current procession was the three-meter figure of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin. The march participants abandoned the previously planned flash mob near the regional administration building. Instead, they approached the monument to A.P.

On Friday, February 24, at 05:46 at Rosa Luxemburg, 115, a garage box, which was used as a car service, caught fire. At the time of the fire, a Toyota Corolla and a Niva were in the box, reports the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Tomsk Region. As a result of the fire, the interior of the Toyota car burned out, the rear bumper melted and the paint on the rear of the Niva car burned. The computer and TV melted, things were burned, and repair equipment was damaged.

Tomich manufactured and sold “desomorphine” at his home, reports the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Tomsk region. During a police test purchase, the man sold 1.6 grams of the drug. “The drug produced by the 30-year-old man included gasoline and pipe cleaner. For several hundred rubles, clients received a dose of a dangerous drug, they took it here and left.

The TV2 news agency was informed about this by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Tomsk Region. “The day before, the Rescue Service received 131 calls from concerned Tomsk residents. Tremors with a magnitude of about 1 were felt in the city and region. There were no casualties or destruction,” the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations told us.

Seven-year-old Milena Konovalova was hospitalized in an anti-tuberculosis dispensary for at least four months. Last December, a school nurse mistakenly administered 10 doses of the BCG vaccine to a girl from the village of Melnikovo. This vaccine produces immunity to tuberculosis. After this injection, Milena began to have health problems. She spent several weeks in the Shegarskaya Central District Hospital, and now the doctors decided to redirect her to a tuberculosis clinic.

The administration of the Tomsk region summed up the results of work with citizens' appeals for 2011. During this time, 6,325 requests were received - written, as well as at personal receptions and during “direct lines” of the governor, his deputies and heads of structural divisions of the regional administration. Compared to 2010, the number of written appeals increased by 7 percent, and oral – by 33 percent.

Tomorrow the final raid will take place, which will determine the finalists of the “Best Janitor” competition in the Oktyabrsky district. As Oksana Grams, adviser to the head of the Oktyabrsky district administration, told TV2 news agency, 16 participants from 5 management companies are competing in the competition for the title of best janitor. “We will inspect 16 territories and determine the three finalists.

Scientists from Siberian State University (Siberian State Medical University) received a federal grant in the amount of 3.8 million rubles to develop by 2013 a method for protecting the ion transport systems of human cells from hypoxic damage and the development of pathologies of oxygen starvation. This was announced by the project manager, university rector Vyacheslav Novitsky.

The fast of the Holy Pentecost is called Great Lent due to the special importance of its establishment. Traditionally, Holy Pentecost and all services begin with Vespers of Maslenitsa (cheese day) week. During the evening service on Forgiveness Sunday, there is a rite or rite of general forgiveness in the church.