The passing year will be remembered differently by everyone, but there were events both in Tomsk and in the country that united us all, and which we will remember today. In Tomsk this year the government changed - we got a new mayor and a new style of leadership of the city and region was finally formed.

Against the backdrop of various forecasts for the coming year that were inevitable by the end of the year, it was impossible not to pay attention to the not very optimistic statement about our economic prospects. Former Minister of Finance, head of the Committee of Civil Initiatives Alexei Kudrin. Speaking on December 23 at a press conference at RIA Novosti, he predicted a long systemic crisis for Russia. According to him, 2014 will be the worst year for Russia since the early 2000s.

New Year is a wonderful holiday. When we make wishes and believe that they will come true. The children of the regional orphanage are also waiting for their wishes to come true, but for the New Year they want to receive not sweets and toys, but something more important.

Today is the last day in the outgoing year when the registry office authorities register a marriage in a solemn ceremony, Olga Novikova, deputy head of the registry office department of the Tomsk region, told the TV2 news agency. “39 couples will get married in Tomsk today. If all the necessary documents are available, Tomsk residents can register a marriage on December 31, but only if there are special circumstances and not in a solemn atmosphere,” O. Novikova clarified.

Police officers identified fraudulent actions with maternity capital on an especially large scale, reports the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Tomsk Region. The police stopped the activities of persons performing organizational and administrative functions in one of the commercial structures of Tomsk.

The baby has cerebral palsy and at one and a half years old he cannot yet sit independently. In September, mother and son traveled to the Czech Republic, where Nikita underwent a course of Vojta therapy. This is a special rehabilitation for children with cerebral palsy. Doctors insist on continuing treatment and the family needs to fly to the Czech Republic again. For another course of treatment, flights and accommodation, the family needs 150 thousand rubles.

Photo: Roman Unashev. On the eve of the New Year, Father Frost's car appears on the streets of Tomsk. Every year Tomich Alexander decorates his car with garlands and dresses up as Santa Claus. In this outfit, he delivers gifts to friends and acquaintances, and also congratulates all Tomsk residents on the upcoming holidays.

This week the girls from Pussy Riot were released. Their dance in the temple, of course, would have gone unnoticed by anyone except random parishioners who happened to be witnesses to the extravagant performance at that moment. At first, many reasonable church leaders reacted to this story completely calmly and wisely.

In 2014, the amount of fixed insurance premiums for taxpayers whose income for the billing period does not exceed 300 thousand rubles, regardless of the taxation system in which they are located, will be reduced by almost half - from 35.66 to 19.42 thousand. rubles Let us also recall that since January 1, 2013, in accordance with the Tax Code of the Russian Federation and the Law of the Tomsk Region dated November 9, 2012 No. 199-OZ, a patent taxation system has been in effect in our region.

This year in Russia passed under the sign of the law adopted by the State Duma at the end of last year. Dima Yakovlev's law or anti-child law, the law of scoundrels. As a result, even those children for whom the procedure for adoption by Americans had already begun remained in our orphanages, including children with serious illnesses who are rarely adopted from us. Many of these children will celebrate this New Year in orphanages.

The magistrate court sentenced the driver, who was driving while intoxicated, to 12 days of administrative arrest, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Tomsk Region reports. The young man was detained the day before by traffic police inspectors on Biryukova Street. During an alcohol intoxication test, he tried to destroy the results and damaged the interior of a company car. The young man also repeatedly insulted the police.

Today at 13:00 a New Year's tree will be held at the Palace of Creativity for the beneficiaries of the Ordinary Miracle charity foundation. “The performance is a gift to our children from the Palace of Creativity. The foundation also prepared gifts for children. The children will receive educational games, sweets and toys - symbols of the New Year,” the charity foundation told the TV2 news agency. Let us add that about 100 children are invited to the performance.

Tomsk Sergey Krivov became the winner of the major All-Russian wrestling tournament Pankration, which was held in Moscow. And a tennis competition took place in Tomsk. The last tournament was the city championship. Already on January 2, tennis players will once again uncover their rackets. Major youth competitions will begin on the Tomsk courts.

The workers of the Trest TSK company who did repairs at the Molchanovskaya secondary school cannot receive wages. Payment delays are three months, and for some, longer. As the builders said, the director of the company in an interview with the Molchanovskaya newspaper promised that salary debts would be repaid by December 25, but this did not happen. On December 27, the workers themselves arrived at the company’s office, but came across closed doors.

Guest of the program Rush Hour Saturday - historian, philologist, film critic - a man of diverse interests, Mikhail Yampolsiky. This year he wrote an article called “Reactions and Emotions.” In it, Yampolsky believes that Russian society is in a state of panic.