The summer street festival “Chekhov's Fridays” will open its fourteenth season on June 2. On Friday, June 2, at 19:00 on the Tom embankment at the monument to A.P. Chekhov's holiday program will begin with a “red” flash mob. In connection with the upcoming centennial anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, festival guests will be greeted by “Vladimir Ilyich Lenin”, who will arrive in an armored car along with soldiers and sailors.

Vladimir Korotkevich served his sentence in correctional colony No. 4 in the city of Tomsk. Today, read on our website an interview with Vladimir Korotkevich, made immediately after his release from the colony. Former gen. the director of Siberian Chemical Combine was convicted on two counts: commercial bribery and abuse of power. He was originally supposed to be released on February 2, 2018. But later his sentence was reduced.

Students and graduates of the Novosibirsk Law Institute, a branch of Tomsk State University, fear the closure of the university due to problems with accreditation. The old certificate expires on July 28, 2017, and nothing is known about obtaining a new one. TSU denies information about problems in the branch. Taiga.Info writes about this today. The publication reports that state exams and thesis defenses hastily began at the Novosibirsk Law Institute.

"Children, drink milk and you will be healthy!" - under this slogan, the world celebrates World Milk Day on the first day of summer. The Village Milk company could not pass up the professional holiday, and invites Tomsk residents to celebrate Milk Day this Sunday. On June 4, from 12:00, on the square near Tomsk Goods, citizens will be treated to various competitions and dairy-themed performances with fairy-tale characters, games and sports competitions. And also a costumed mini-carnival.

Photo: photos provided by the Eskimo company On June 3, Tomsk will host perhaps the sweetest event of the summer - Ice Cream Day. The organizer of the holiday, the Eskimo company, invites Tomsk residents to Novo-Sobornaya Square, where from 12.00 to 16.00 they can take part in tastings, try their luck in drawings, listen to good music and dance.

Fines for non-payment of travel in the Platon system may increase from five thousand to 20 thousand rubles. This was reported by Radio Liberty with reference to the bill of the Ministry of Transport. Presumably, the law will come into force on June 15. According to the document, the fine for repeated violations in the amount of 10 thousand rubles will be canceled.

2006 Author Sergey Sedov. The area in front of SFTI was filled with children. A competition of children's drawings on the asphalt "I love you life" was held here. And this is just part of the campaign to combat tuberculosis - White Flower. Participants are children of two age groups from 7 and 12 years old. And among them is the mayor. He also completed the competition task, but he was not among the winners. About how the mayor communicated with children.

The Tomsk region left the top twenty regions with the most developed investment climate and took 24th place. In 2016, the Tomsk region occupied 12th place. “All indicators for supporting SMEs have seriously improved, by an order of magnitude,” said the head of the ASI.

What does it mean - green in the face? Who does the seminars in investigative journalism interfere? Why do the Russian authorities react so nervously to any uncontrolled activity of journalists? The TV2 correspondent talked about this with one of the creators of the Investigative Journalism Fund Galina Sidorova. Galina in the past - worked in the journal New Times (theme - hot spots and diplomatic affairs). For three years she was an adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Kozyrev.

On June 3, the TV2 local history expedition sets out on a new route. Alexey Bagaev will take participants on a walk through the territory of Akademgorodok and introduce them to the history of the creation of scientific clusters in Tomsk and Novosibirsk. The hike will take place through a picturesque forest area, where in the recent past there was a complex of ski jumps, and Tomsk “flying” skiers were considered one of the strongest in the country.

Acting Governor of the Tomsk Region Sergei Zhvachkin and Deputy General Director of Gazprom Neft PJSC Alexander Dybal held a working meeting at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Sergey Zhvachkin thanked the oil company for supporting the Tom football club and discussed further steps in this direction with the top management of Gazprom Neft.

According to Mr. Ugolnikov, “at the moment, the television schedule of most Russian TV channels contains practically no films, television programs, or musical works from India, China, Brazil and South Africa.

20 thousand residents of the Tomsk region cannot travel abroad due to debts totaling 6 billion rubles, reports the press service of the bailiffs. The majority of debtors are alimony workers - 10 thousand people owe an amount of 1.6 billion rubles. A bailiff can restrict travel outside the Russian Federation for any citizen against whom a court decision has been made, with a debt amount of 10 thousand rubles or more.

Director Andrei Zvyagintsev presented his new film “Loveless” to Novosibirsk residents on the first day of Russian distribution, Taiga writes. info. It so happened that the story of a 12-year-old boy who left home at the moment when his parents who hated each other were getting divorced was shown in the director’s hometown on June 1, Children’s Day. The director spoke with the first viewers of his film about the time in which we live and the need to love.

The exit of the ex-director of the Siberian Chemical Combine from the walls of the colony was scheduled for 11.30. His relatives and friends arrived before 11 o’clock, but they had to wait an hour and a half: Korotkevich left the colony at 12.30. After a five-year separation from my family: my wife, daughters, grandchildren... My little granddaughter is not here yet, my daughter has not yet arrived from St. Petersburg...