City officials are encouraging local stores to decorate their windows for the New Year. A third of the stores are located in the city center, but many are not decorated in any way for the New Year holidays. According to Rush Hour journalists, some owners of large retail chains were even personally called by the mayor, but often the price of the issue is more important. However, City Hall employees found original and colorful display cases.

The fire in a wooden house on Urozhainy Lane, 28 has been extinguished. The press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Tomsk Region, Evgeny Pinchukov, reported this to the TV2 news agency. “The fire was extinguished at 14:59. According to our information, 8 people were evacuated from the house during the fire,” said E. Pinchukov. Let us remind you that today at 11:30 a fire was reported in a two-story 16-apartment building .

When does New Year come? Simple question? Then allow me to clarify: according to what calendar? We live, if anyone doesn’t know, according to the Gregorian calendar. And according to him, this happens on January 1, exactly at 00 hours 00 minutes. Then in Russia they also celebrate the Old New Year. This is already according to the Julian calendar. There are still a bunch of calendars...

The Federal Antimonopoly Service for the Tomsk Region fined the head of the urban services department of the Tomsk administration, Vyacheslav Chernous, 50 thousand rubles for violations in the field of placing orders for municipal needs. This was reported by the press service of the regional prosecutor's office.

If you don't know how to decorate, we'll teach you; if you don't want to, we'll force you to. But there should be a feeling of celebration in the city. City officials, having looked at more than a thousand shop windows in Tomsk, came to the conclusion that a third of them located in the city center are not ready for the New Year. According to the law, the mayor’s office cannot punish such entrepreneurs; it only tries to persuade them to decorate their windows.

The chairman of the regional fisheries committee, Viktor Sirotin, reported this to the TV2 news agency. According to him, in the near future specialists from the Gosrybtsentr from Tyumen will arrive in Tomsk, with the help of which a local branch of the Gosrybtsentr will be opened. His tasks will include providing support to the fishery complex of the Tomsk region.

Video: Olga Pasechnik, facebook.com The charity event “Old Age in Joy” ended in Tomsk: Tomsk residents collected New Year gifts for lonely old people. As Anna, the organizer of the event, explained, more gifts are brought for grandmothers. Let us note that most often Tomsk residents put warm socks and shirts, scarves, small tabletop Christmas trees and soft sweets as gifts. Now volunteers will deliver the gifts to their recipients.

The court sentenced the former senior state inspector of the Tomsk department of the Verkhneob territorial department of the Federal Agency for Fisheries for committing official forgery . According to the Investigative Committee for the Tomsk Region, during the year the senior state inspector, in order to improve his work performance, drew up 14 protocols on poaching of non-existent fishermen.

Deputy Mayor for Investment Policy Denis Molotkov told the TV2 news agency that work is now underway to complete the necessary documentation. “Specialists are resolving issues with construction sites. They intend to build two restaurants, and for the other two they are considering options for shopping centers or historical buildings. But all this work should lead to us cutting the ribbon in December 2013,” noted Denis Molotkov.

The man demanded money from a gas station employee, the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate reports. As the police found out, a Tomsk resident attacked a gas station on the street. Vilyuiskaya. He threatened a gas station worker and demanded money: the man set fire and threw paper inside the gas station, and then set fire to a nearby car. The gas station employee gave the robber three thousand rubles, after which the attacker disappeared.

At the moment when the 5-year-old girl became ill, her mother was at work. My stepfather was at home. Elena Lebedeva, senior assistant to the head of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Tomsk Region, reported this to the TV2 news agency. “At home, my stepfather was drinking alcohol. Later, over the phone, he told the girl’s mother that the child was not well. The woman arrived and called an ambulance.

At 7 o'clock in the morning the air temperature in Tomsk was -33°C. Pupils in grades 1-4 are exempt from classes at a temperature of -28°C; schoolchildren in grades 5-8 at - 32°C; high school students (grades 9-11) may not attend school at -36°C. In cold weather, schools operate as usual. Educational institutions will publish assignments for students who did not go to class due to frost on their websites .

As TV2 news agency was told in the regional department of social protection of the population, the charity account opened for victims of the explosion on Sibirskaya, 33 can be called indefinite. “Even when the house is restored and people return to their apartments, they may need something. We will not close this account, because after two or three months people may appear who are ready to transfer some amount and help. The account will work until the very last benefactor,” the department noted.

The Investigative Committee for the Tomsk Region opened a criminal case into the death of a woman in labor in the city hospital of the city of Strezhevoy under the article of causing death by negligence due to improper performance by a person of his professional duties.

A call with a request to provide assistance to the participants in the accident was received by the duty department the day before from the city of Yurga. The accident occurred in the Kemerovo region, 23 kilometers from the former traffic police post in the village of Alaevo on the Tomsk-Yurga highway, reports the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Tomsk region. “The traffic police inspector for Tomsk was the first to arrive at the scene of the incident.