In April, the first Literary Mafia championship will be held in Tomsk. Participants will play according to the usual rules of the Mafia game, but based on the plots of literary works. The organizer of the championship, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, told the TV2 news agency about this. The championship will be held on April 18-19 at the Regional Library. A.S. Pushkin. “The championship will be held in several rounds. The first day is qualifying games. The second day is the final and semi-final.

Producer and host of the Rush Hour news program Melanie Bachina was recognized as the best freelance correspondent for Radio Liberty in 2014. As reported on the official website of Radio Liberty, Melanie Bachina has been collaborating with the Russian service of the radio station since 2002. She is the author of several special projects and hundreds of video and radio reports.

Today's match between the Tomsk football team and the Kazakh club ended with a score of 2:1. The match took place in Turkey. Tom captain Pavel Golyshev opened the scoring in the game in the 44th minute, and the opponent pulled it back in the 50th minute. The victory for our team was brought by Anzor Sanaya's goal in the 66th minute of the game. Let us add that on March 12, Tom will meet with Khimik Dzerzhinsk.

The district game warden shot six wolves in the Pervomaisky district. The animals were spotted chasing an elk through the forest. In the 90s, wolves managed to almost completely exterminate the population of these artiodactyls. Only recently have the moose numbers been restored. Therefore, now local rangers and hunters especially protect moose. Hunter Nikolai Ruzavkin told the TV2 news agency about this.

Members of the Public Chamber appealed to the President with a request to create a new position in the country - a commissioner for women's rights. Izvestia reported this. It is assumed that the ombudsman will defend the interests of women in a variety of areas: in the field of labor relations, family relations, social security. Representatives of the Women's Ombudsman may appear in the regions.

On March 20-21, Tomsk (and 10 other Russian cities) will host the “Sales and Marketing - 2015” conference for owners and managers of enterprises responsible for the company’s business development, marketing strategy, organization of sales, service and marketing departments in the corporate sector. The conference is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses in the B2B sphere and solves the pressing problems of this particular category of businessmen.

Tomskstat specialists have calculated that 567 thousand women live in the Tomsk region, less than half of them work - 241 thousand. A quarter of them work in the trade sector—that’s 62.3 thousand women. Also, many Tomsk women choose to work in the field of education - 38.9 thousand women. Another 35 thousand women work in production - this is 14.5% of all working women. Moreover, most of them are employed in manufacturing enterprises.

Photo: Roman Unashev On Sunday, the Russian Canine Sports Cup was held at the Yantar ski resort near Seversk. Athletes from different regions of the country came to it. The main discipline was towing race on skis.