According to the publication of the administration of the Tomsk region , Tomsk News, the governor of the Tomsk region, Sergei Zhvachkin, “does not pay attention to them (ratings - ed.) , he believes that the head of the region should be judged by his work, and not by his ratings.” The publication cites this opinion of the governor with reference to the rating of the Izvestia newspaper , according to which Zhvachkin was placed in the third, penultimate, group of the rating.

In connection with the tragedy that occurred on the night of January 25-26, 2014, during a fire in a residential building in the village of Babarykino, the Shegarsky district prosecutor’s office conducted an audit of the completeness and legality of the measures taken by the district authorities of the system for preventing neglect and juvenile delinquency in relation to the parents of deceased children.

Today, at a meeting of the TSU rectorate, a significantly updated management team was presented, the university’s press service reports. According to the decision of the Academic Council of TSU, five new vice-rectors will begin work on February 1, two have retained their post, and one more position is still vacant.

This evening the Dozhd TV channel disappeared from the broadcast networks of Tomsk cable operators - Tomtel and New TeleSystems. The TV2 news agency learned about this from calls from Tomsk residents to the editorial office. “We are broadcasting in test mode. There may be problems with the satellite. No information has been provided yet about when the broadcast will appear,” the Tomtel company explained to us.

The Sovetsky District Court found a Tomsk resident guilty of committing “fraud using payment cards,” the press service of the Tomsk Regional Court reports. The court hearing established that in August last year, in the entrance of a residential building, the defendant found a bank card belonging to another person. Believing that there was money on the card, the man went to the city’s shops, where he paid for his purchases with the found bank card.

The authors of an article published Friday in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet believe that vodka is the leading cause of death in Russia. A group of scientists led by Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences David Zaridze published the results of a prospective study conducted in Tomsk, Biysk and Barnaul. The authors chose these cities as typical cities of Siberia.

Due to frost in the area, the bus station has canceled flights to Podgorny for today and tomorrow. Also today, flights to Teguldet will not depart from the Tomsk bus station. Tomsk-Baturino flights, Shegarsky district, have been canceled today and tomorrow. Until February 3, flights to Kargaska at 20.50 have been canceled. Flights to Krivosheino on January 31 at 11-30 have been cancelled. Until February 2, flights from Tomsk to Melnikovo will depart from 7-20 to 20-00 with an hourly interval.

The message that houses in the Leninsky district on the list for major repairs are “older” than the year they were actually built became the reason for an internal inspection. Advisor to the head of administration Evgeniy Mozgov reported this to the TV2 news agency.

Today, the authorities are deciding the legal issues of creating a unified tourist information center in the region. It will become the organization that will be responsible for licensing tour guides and classifying hotels. Yulia Mikhaleva, deputy head of the regional department for culture and tourism, told the TV2 news agency about this.

In the second half of 2013, the reform of the country's credit institutions began. The Central Bank revoked the licenses of 14 banks - large and not very large.

More than 360 thousand absentee requests were processed by specialists of OJSC Tomskenergosbyt in 2013. The most popular absentee services of Tomskenergosbyt among residents of the Tomsk region were payment for electricity via the Internet and Contact Center services. Residents of the region - the company's clients - made 130,481 calls to the toll-free number 8-800-200-47-87 in 2013.

The TV2 news agency and the TV2VIDEO portal are holding the “Right to the Heart” campaign. There are two ways to congratulate your loved ones on the holiday and confess your love: 1. Send your video greetings to the website tv2video.ru 2. Catch Cupid on the streets of Tomsk, who will “collect” video declarations of love.

The user attention_violator sent a video about the “With Your Own Eyes” section. The video shows how the car of the 50th region first did not allow the car to change lanes, and then changed lanes, “cutting off” another car. “No comments...” the user wrote.

The classrooms in which schoolchildren in the region will take final exams after grades 11 and 9 will be equipped with video cameras and metal detectors this year, the press service of the regional administration reports. In the Tomsk region there will be 70 examination points, which will total 660 classrooms. At the request of Rosobrnadzor, all of them must be equipped with video cameras, and there must be a metal detector at the entrance to each point.

The preventive action of the traffic police “Pedestrian” took place yesterday in the region. Judging by the results of the event, pedestrians more often violate the rules for crossing the roadway than drivers violate the requirements of the rules for passing pedestrian crossings, reports the traffic police in the Tomsk region.