In April of this year, a 29-year-old Tomsk resident ordered hemp seeds online and created a greenhouse at home in his closet to grow them. During operational search activities, police detained a man, the press service of the Tomsk drug control agency reported. “With the seeds in hand, the suspect began the complex and painstaking process of growing drug-containing plants.

The documentary broadcast is completely completed. Since the end of April, the mayor's office finally allocated funds for the protection of these towns, recognizing the situation in the military towns as an emergency. Today, city deputies and representatives of the mayor's office checked how the towns are protected. Our correspondents also visited the site with them.

Instead of agricultural production - construction. On a plot of land near Kornilov, the owner of the field cut off the fertile layer of soil, covered it with sand and clay, and began building hangars. Although, according to the law, industrial construction cannot be carried out on agricultural lands. Rosselkhoznadzor inspectors began an administrative investigation. Today they came to the site to take measurements of the land plot.

Flying from Tomsk to St. Petersburg will become easier. UTair Airlines has resumed direct flights to the northern capital. The first flight from Tomsk is already on the second of June. In addition, for those flying abroad through St. Petersburg, UTair and Pulkovo Airport plan to provide a new service - “stopover”.

The Tomsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry presented a monitoring of the state of small and medium-sized businesses in the Tomsk region for 2013. According to monitoring data, the structure of small and medium-sized businesses has changed in Tomsk. In 2013, the number of individual entrepreneurs decreased to 25,000 people, compared to 31,563 entrepreneurs in 2012. At the same time, the number of microenterprises in Tomsk increased: from 20,839 to 25,700.

Six thousand Tomsk eleventh-graders took an exam in the Russian language. This year, security measures have been strengthened at the Unified State Examination. At the entrance, cell phones are searched for with a metal detector, and in the classrooms, video cameras are vigilantly monitoring test takers.

Today, schoolchildren across Russia will begin taking the first compulsory exam. The TV2 news agency was informed about this by the regional department of general education. The exam starts at 10 am. In total, 5,727 people take the Russian language exam. The first Unified State Examination within the main testing period started on May 26 - schoolchildren took an exam in geography and literature. Another compulsory subject is mathematics. The state exam is scheduled for June 5.

Today, deputies of the Legislative Duma of the Tomsk region voted for candidates for the post of regional commissioner for the protection of the rights of entrepreneurs. Based on the voting results, only one candidate will be presented to the governor of the Tomsk region. As regional Duma speaker Oksana Kozlovskaya noted at the meeting, to get on the list that will be presented to the head of the region, candidates had to overcome a minimum threshold of 21 votes.

On a plot of land near Kornilov, the owner of the field cut off the fertile layer of soil, covered it with sand and clay, and began building hangars. According to the law, industrial construction cannot be carried out on agricultural lands. Rosselkhoznadzor inspectors began an administrative investigation. According to state inspector of the land supervision department Sergei Makurin, the area of ​​the site is more than a hectare. All the land was fertile.

Governor of the Tomsk Region Sergei Zhvachkin and Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government Arkady Dvorkovich held the first meeting of the working group on updating the concept of "INO Tomsk'2020" in the capital's Government House yesterday. Sergey Zhvachkin voiced three reasons for the need to update the concept adopted in 2011. First, it is necessary to reorient innovation policy from supply to demand.

The Tomsk administration is preparing the city beach for the start of the new summer season. The plans are to open the only municipal beach on Semeykin Island on June 15, Lidia Levitskaya, head of the culture department of the Tomsk administration, told the TV2 news agency. “We are now carrying out preparatory work: we are concluding agreements with rescue services to install all the necessary equipment for the operation of the beach.

At the end of the season there is another premiere at the Versiya Theater. On Friday, May 30, the audience will be presented with the play “Happiness for Rent.” Is it possible to buy love and friendship?

A sculptural composition of three bears - dad, mom and cub - will be opened tomorrow near the Tomsk Hotel (next to the Tomsk-I railway station). The composition has already been installed and is still hidden under the covering material. Olga Kalinina-Sulakshina, director of the Art and Relevance gallery, told the TV2 news agency about this. According to her, the idea to place bears here came to the hotel management, since foreign guests often asked where bears walked on the streets of Tomsk.

Residents of the house on the street. Michurina, 93, together with students of the Tomsk Agricultural Institute, will go out today to clean the forest belt at the end of Michurina, the press service of the mayor's office reported. Residents of the house on Michurina turned to the administration of the Oktyabrsky district with a request for help in holding a cleanup day in the forest belt, which is a recreational area. Students of the institute also expressed a desire to join the residents.

Beware scammers! Old people are offered a free medical electric massager from the city health department. And when they sign the papers without reading, supposedly for reporting purposes, it turns out that they signed a purchase and sale agreement. The price of the device is from 12 to 14 thousand rubles. For each day of late payment there is a penalty. Such cases of fraud are recorded in Tomsk periodically.