Tomsk is in tenth place in the ranking of quality of life in large Russian cities based on the results of 2015. According to sociologists, Tomsk was distinguished by high life satisfaction and a weak housing and communal services fund; for “roads” and “improvement” Tomsk received average marks. The rating was compiled by a financial university under the Russian government.

We talked about the profession of journalism and its future with Novaya Gazeta journalist Pavel Kanygin, Meduza editor-in-chief Galina Timchenko, journalist Tikhon Dzyatko, media expert Vasily Gatov, Slon.ru journalist Natalya Rostova, former editor-in-chief of RIA Novosti Svetlana Mironyuk, journalist Igor Yakovenko and director of the regional television company “Channel 4” in Yekaterinburg Alena Vugelman. Will non-state media in Russia survive the crisis?

Tomskvodokanal is trying to influence through the courts those consumers who have not installed water meters in their apartments. However, 84% of Tomsk residents prefer to resolve the issue before the trial, reports the department’s press service.

A Toyota Vitz hit a man at the intersection of Lenin Avenue and Proletarskaya Street in Tomsk, the city traffic police propaganda department Dmitry Filimonov reported. The accident occurred today, January 13, at 12.43. A Toyota Vitz hit a male pedestrian born in 1984. The victim is currently being examined by doctors at the scene of the accident. The circumstances of the incident are being clarified. Tags: Tomsk, accident, hit a pedestrian

Today, on Russian Press Day, the Rush Hour program also celebrates its birthday. Its first broadcast took place on TV-2 in 1993, 23 years ago. The program was last aired on February 6 last year. For two decades of its life, “Chas Rush” was the leader of information broadcasting in Tomsk. The city's information space was largely shaped by the work of the people who created this program.

Over the past year, 14,734 children were born in the Tomsk region. Among those born, there are an equal number of female and male children: 7,228 girls and 7,435 boys, the registry office reports. Most often, Tomsk residents preferred the male name Artem. The names Alexander and Maxim are slightly less popular, Dmitry is in fourth place, Ivan is in fifth place, and Mikhail is in sixth place. Girls born in 2015 most often received the names Victoria, Maria, Daria, Sofia, Anastasia and Anna.

Everyone here today is posting the judgment of our Ramzan Akhmatovich that anyone who is not with Putin today and uses difficulties to rock our boat is an enemy of the people, which means he is a traitor and must be dealt with according to the laws of our difficult times. The usual associations that arise on this occasion among people who are at least a little familiar with Russian history are understandable.

The investigation charged a private security company employee with beating a Tomsk store visitor to death and petitioned for his arrest, but the court refused the request, the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee reported.

KrasAvia Airlines will resume weekly flights on the route Novosibirsk - Strezhevoy - Novosibirsk from January 30, the press service of the Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport reported. In March 2015, KrasAvia Airlines began operating flights from Novosibirsk to Strezhevoy on an An-24 aircraft. “Partner of the Novosibirsk International Airport (Tolmachevo), KrasAvia Airlines, will continue to operate flights on the route Novosibirsk - Strezhevoy - Novosibirsk.

The winners of the Tomsk Polytechnic University Olympiad, who graduated from both Russian and foreign universities, will be able to subsequently enter the university’s master’s program without exams, the press service reports. Registration of participants has already begun on the Olympiad website . In the first, correspondence round, participants will have to create a portfolio and answer online testing questions.

Mystery shoppers have begun conducting mystery shopping checks on banks, insurance and investment companies to evaluate the performance of financial institutions in the region. The audits were organized as part of the VI interregional competition “Financial Prestige”.

Today, January 13, applications began for the competition of social projects, which is being held by Gazpromneft-Vostok for the third time as part of the Hometowns program. The total amount of the grant fund is 3 million rubles.

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov warned at the Gaidar Forum about the threat of a repeat of 1998 if the budget situation gets out of control. According to him, if the budget is not optimized, the crisis situation of 1998 will repeat, when the population “paid for it,” federal media reports. Previously, the Ministry of Finance instructed ministries and departments to determine by January 15 what expenses they would reduce by 10% .

Today, January 13, the Rush Hour program, which has stopped airing since February 2015, turned 23 years old. We offer you a short excursion into the history of the program.

According to Rosstat, the rate of price growth in 2015 was the highest in the last seven years. Annual inflation was 12.9% compared to 11.4% a year earlier, in 2014. In 2015, food prices rose the fastest. On average, in January-December, prices for fish and seafood increased by almost 29%, cereals by almost 42%, granulated sugar by almost 40%, and sunflower oil by 31%.