The website esquire.ru published the material “What we purchased in 2013.” Among the new products: a kit for turning a cockroach into a cyborg, luminous plants, a wind-up lamp and other important devices invented or put on sale this year.

Former Tom player Harry O'Connor criticized the Siberian team. During the 6 months spent in Tomsk, the striker from Scotland was remembered not for his goals, but for his numerous violations of sports discipline.

Investigators solved the murder “hot on the heels,” employees of the regional Investigative Committee reported. On Thursday at 6 p.m., the body of a 65-year-old woman with stab wounds was discovered in one of the Strezhevoy apartment buildings. Based on this fact, investigators opened a criminal case under the article “murder”. Within 24 hours, investigators and police officers identified and detained a murder suspect.

The traffic light on the Bogashevskaya highway was equipped with alternative energy sources - a solar battery and a wind engine - at the end of last year. The SMEU stated that such traffic lights can be successfully used on country roads where power sources are located at a distance. However, the experimental traffic light on the Bogashevskaya highway was covered with snow the day before.

Demonstrators intend to begin the action to “close the city” this coming Monday. According to Vedomosti, oppositionists are going to block several streets in the capital. The opposition plans to completely block 20 city junctions in Bangkok along with adjacent areas, allowing only the movement of city buses in the areas occupied by them. The goal of the demonstrators is to paralyze the work of city transport, city institutions and the police.

The sculptor with his own eyes. Leonty Usov celebrates his birthday. He turned 66 years old. On this occasion, he presented a new exhibition called “Usov through the eyes of Usov.”

Rostelecom ensured the stable operation of the national telecommunications infrastructure to work under conditions of increased load during the New Year holidays To achieve this, the Company developed and implemented a set of organizational and technical measures to ensure stable operation of the national telecommunications infrastructure under conditions of increased load during the New Year holidays. Rostelecom additionally organized digital channels on intercity and international routes.

A utility accident at the intersection of Krasnoarmeyskaya and Sibirskaya is eliminated by 5 units of special equipment. Workers are cleaning the road and thawing storm drains. According to the mayor's office, specialists from the municipal services department discovered damage to heating networks at the intersection of the lane. Nechevsky and st. Tverskaya, which are served by OJSC TGC-11. The possibility of leakage on the main lines operated by Tomskvodokanal is also checked.

Forecasters from the Tomsk hydrometeorological center published a weather forecast for the weekend. On Saturday, January 11, cloudy weather with clearings is expected in Tomsk, snow is possible. The daytime temperature will be -4…-6°C. The roads are icy. At night the thermometer will drop to -13...-15°C. On Sunday afternoon, weather forecasters predict about -8...-10°C. No precipitation is expected.

At the end of December, Deputy General Director of Siberian Chemical Plant OJSC (part of the TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom) for capital construction, Igor Volkov, introduced 13 new employees to the capital construction service team of the enterprise. All of them are young, highly qualified specialists who have work experience and have been carefully selected. Igor Volkov explained that the initiation ceremony is important so that people quickly join the team.

A large private farm burned down in the village of Petukhovo. Late in the evening, a fire engulfed a wooden structure containing 122 cows, 4 horses and several tractors. As a result of the fire, most of the livestock died. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

For two and a half weeks, residents of the northern village of Kataiga have been living in an emergency situation. On December 21, a severe fire occurred at a wood waste dump. The flames were burning near houses. The consequences of the fire are still felt today.

In 2013, the regional department of the federal drug control service received 1,008 requests from Tomsk residents, which is 1.5 times higher than in 2012, the department’s press service reports. More than 90% of the total number of messages left by citizens are of an operational nature: the maintenance of drug dens, the sale and use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

By order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, the Governor's Svetlensky Lyceum was given the status of a federal innovation platform, reports the press service of the regional administration.

During the two weeks of the New Year, drug police seized about 7 kg of various narcotic substances. According to the drug police press service, on holidays a 20-year-old unemployed Tomsk citizen was detained for selling heroin in the Leninsky district of Tomsk. The police found a cache in the Central Market area, where there were more than 700 grams of the drug. A criminal case has been opened.