World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji is 700 kilometers along rivers, jungles and rocks on the islands of the Republic of Fiji. The distance must be completed in 11 days, that is, almost without rest. The last time Amazon.com held an international race was 19 years ago; last year they decided to revive the show, and for the first time a team from Russia took part in it. A Siberian was also among the top five athletes: businessman Valery Cherkasov from Novosibirsk.

There is just over a week left before the elections to the Tomsk City Duma, and citizens are increasingly interested in how the voting will take place. The New People party answers the most frequently asked questions. “One of the most popular questions is: “I want to vote for you, but I don’t know where my polling station is located. Can you tell me?" It's pretty simple.

Volunteers of the Lisa Alert search and rescue team are looking for a grandfather and his four-year-old grandson who went into the forest to pick mushrooms. They went into the forest on September 5 at 11 am, the detachment group reported. “Vitaly Alekseevich Desyatov, 58 years old, and his grandson Vladislav, 4 years old, disappeared.

Tomsk police drew up more than 21 thousand protocols for violating the self-isolation regime, about 19 thousand administrative cases were sent to the courts, which issued almost 9 thousand fines and 5.5 thousand warnings. The regional administration reports this. Let us remind you that from May 18, a mandatory mask regime was introduced in the Tomsk region. The mask regime applies to public transport (including taxi rides) and places where people gather in enclosed spaces.

In Tomsk, defrauded shareholders picket the regional administration building; they demand that the building with 511 apartments on Kievskaya, 1 be handed over. Shareholders went out on single pickets to the regional administration building from 9 am, they replace each other every hour. It is planned that 30 people will replace each other in a single picket. The apartment building on Kievskaya, 1 has not been rented out since 2014. There is still no electricity in the house.

This morning, 34 firefighters extinguished a fire in a private brick residential building on Karierny Lane, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the region reports. While extinguishing the fire, a gas cylinder exploded; the three remaining cylinders were evacuated by firefighters. — In Tomsk, on Karierny Lane, the walls inside a private brick residential building were burned, the attic floor was burned, and the walls of the garage were burned.

The Tomsk region ranked second among Siberian regions in terms of the increase in COVID-19 cases. The Information Center for Monitoring the Coronavirus Situation (ICC) provided comparative data on the increase in identified cases of COVID-19 in Siberia for the week from August 29 to September 4. Thus, at the end of the week, Kuzbass remains in the all-Russian TOP-3 territories with the largest percentage increase in COVID-19 cases.

Over the past 24 hours, 52 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the Tomsk region. 36 patients recovered during the day, for a total of 4,899, and there were no deaths during the day. The total number of identified cases of COVID-19 in the region has increased to 5,942. Of those who fell ill with COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, 16 showed signs of acute respiratory viral infection, while 36 had no symptoms. There is one person in the observatory near Tomsk.

Early voting in regional elections has begun in Siberia. In the Tomsk region, the “Map of Violations” of the movement for fair elections “Voice” received 17 complaints from voters. On the map, voters complain about campaigning and coercion of state employees to vote. The voter said that propaganda posters with the image of Rector Eduard Galazhinsky and Vice-Rector for Social Work Sergei Kulizhsky were placed at TSU. They are United Russia candidates.