When was the last time you saw bullfinches? As a child? The question of where the elegant, red-breasted birds, pecking at rowan trees in city parks, have gone is a little more complex and interesting than it seems at first glance. Let's start with the relationship between bullfinches and mountain ash. Our memories and children's books do not deceive; bullfinches willingly feed on fruit-bearing rowan trees.

City deputies agreed to reduce payments to parents whose children go to private childcare groups from 3 to 1.7 thousand rubles. Earlier, the regional Duma adopted amendments to the law regulating the payment of compensation for attending kindergartens. Now the potential number of recipients of this benefit has decreased, according to preliminary estimates, by 12 thousand people - from 27 thousand to 15 thousand.

Deputies of the City Duma approved the budget of Tomsk for 2017. Earlier, Tomsk residents approved the draft budget at public hearings. Thus, city budget revenues for 2017 are planned in the amount of 12,378.4 million rubles, expenses will amount to 13,025.2 million rubles. The budget deficit in 2017 will be 646.8 million rubles.

Residents of the city will be able not to pay for travel on “alternative”, “custom” buses, which can begin operating in Tomsk from January 1 as buses duplicating the routes of the new network. Deputy Mayor Alexander Tsymbalyuk reported this. Earlier, the mayor's office announced auctions for the right to transport on 29 city bus routes. The terms of reference listed the requirements for carriers.

The Oktyabrsky court found Zoya Sukhareva and Vladimir Kravchenko guilty of deliberate bankruptcy of the Green Factory enterprise, the court's press service reported to AN TV-2. The “Green Factory” enterprise for deep wood processing was supposed to be launched in Itatka. The idea of ​​the project appeared in 2005, and construction began in 2006. The Green Factory complex was planned to reach full capacity in 2018.

The press secretary of the head of Buryatia Alexander Maltsev believes. “This is undoubtedly a political order in the framework of the beginning pre-election struggle,” said the last publications on the New Buryatia website, the press secretary of the head of Buryatia, about the fact that Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn, in the case of the inappropriate use of the budget for the guest house, commented.

His journey certainly implied the possibility of incidents. After the picket “Hating gays is an anti-scientific delusion” held in the capital of Dagestan, Makhachkala, he was beaten by a crowd of unknown people. Later, a video of the beating appeared on social networks, which shows how a Tomsk resident is being beaten by a crowd of young people, and the police do not intervene. At the police station they didn’t even accept Alexander Sidorov’s statement.