Он наркоман, это знает весь Томск. Его в 1969 выгнали из меда с диагнозом “полинаркомания”. Подсел на опиаты (морфин). Еще нескольких человек выгнали - остальных посадили. Журналист, который опубликовал эти данные через 2 месяца загадочно утонул. Макаров (”этот чувак”) жестокий беспредельщик, который выжег практически все исторические деревянные здания Томска, которыми был знаменит город. Фактически, это национальное достояние - русское деревянное зодчество 18-19 века. Очень часто эти дома горели вместе с жителями. Он “приватизировал” ВСЮ землю в городе, ни одного участка не было продано

‘The budget of Yekaterinburg adopted for 2007 does not provide for the restoration of the bridge in Schevchenko St. This year, the city has spent 130m RUR out of the allotted 160m RUR to build the bridge, but the investment flow has been stopped until the reason why it fell down has been found. The damage will be claimed after the investigation is completed, and those responsible for the accident will have to pay,’ Head of Financial and Budgeting Department Andrei Koryukov announced at the municipal Duma meeting devoted to the next year’s budget.

The law-enforcement agencies of Sverdlovsk Region keep revealing and preventing cases of production or sales of consumer goods that do not meet the health and safety requirements. This year, the public prosecution authorities have initiated over 1,200 criminal suits that have to do with production, storekeeping, transportation, or sales of goods or rendering services that are unsafe (Article 238 of the Criminal Code). Over 1,000 claims were placed with the courts after the inquiry. The public prosecution bodies of Zheleznodorozhniy district of Yekaterinburg started criminal action against a

MegaFon Ural, the mobile operator, has been offering its clients a chance to discuss the company’s activities and ask their questions using the company’s online forum The forum participants are expected to make their proposals and offer their ideas in terms of network performance, services, and tariff schemes, which will allow MegaFon Ural to promptly respond to these ideas as well as create some new terms of service that would be both convenient and attractive. The forum has been operating for over a year, and its most active participants are invited to use the special loyalty scheme that

The municipal Duma adopted the city’s budget for 2007 after the second reading today. The budget scheme has not actually changed against the first reading. The profits come to 13.451bn RUR, the expenses come to 14.753bn RUR, with the budget deficit thus amounting to 1.302bn RUR, or 9.9% of the profits. This is expected to be covered by the income from the land auctions and due to regional and federal subsidies. Some changes in the spending patterns have been made to the budget in the course of the second reading, for example, the sums of money to be used for pension subsidies for former local

‘Our company is not worried about the Moldavian wine for the time being,’ the Purchase Director of Ural Liquor Company Ltd. Sergey Lapshin said to UrBC representative, relating to the recent requirement for a special state trademark in Moldavia. On January 1, 2007, it will become impossible to export wines from Moldavia to Russia or any other country without this trademark. ‘While the Russian law was preventing the entrepreneurs from importing Moldavian wine, the product niche has already been filled, so it might be difficult for the producers to regain their share of the market,’ Mr Lapshin

SKB-Bank has recently introduced a new office in the village of Reftinskiy, Sverdlovsk Region. The visitors are welcome at 4 Molodezhnaya St., with the whole range of services for both businesses and private clients available. The office is open for the natural persons from 9 AM to 7PM on weekdays and from 9 AM to 4 PM on weekends; businesses and legal entities will be serviced from 9 AM to 4 PM on weekdays. SKB-Bank has 53 offices now; all of them are based in Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk, and Rostov Regions, reports the bank’s press officer

Krasnolesie car center supported the Off Road Club project – a Land Rover expedition to the Cold Pole. Last year, the participants of Polar Express 2006 were helped by the car center to successfully test the Land Rovers in the low temperatures of the trans-polar territories. This time, the expedition is going to head for Oimyakon in Yakutia where the average January temperature amounts to 50 degrees centigrade below zero, and drops to 67.7 degrees centigrade below on some particularly cold days. Krasnolesie car center conducted the presentation of the expedition team on December 20, 2006, and

According to the spokesperson for Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the bank started offering the small and medium-scale businesses the new overdraft schemes on December 18, 2006. ‘An overdraft is providing loans via a client’s bank account within a certain limit even though there is currently no money in this account. On December 18, the overdraft became available to the local businesses, and the service will be extended to all the offices and subsidiaries of the bank that offer loans to small and medium businesses,’ says the spokesperson. ‘The bank offers three types of

Ural Airlines transferred its first millionth passenger in the Ural Region on December 26, 2006. This was someone who bought the ticket for a daytime flight to Moscow; this person is to be congratulated by both the company and the representatives of the local authorities, reports the company’s press officer.

Ural Airlines will service around 3,500 passengers and will perform over 20 flights to Austria, Germany, Finland, Italy, Turkey, and Bulgaria. Since these directions enjoy increased demand at the moment, the carrier is offering its clients a chance not to pay for one piece of luggage that includes a snowboard or a pair of skis, special boots and a the ski poles. The equipment has to be wrapped in the special packaging for safety reasons, the company reports.

The insurance inspectorate in the Ural Federal District received some 250 complaints about the obligatory car insurance in January-September 2006. This means that there were 40% more claims than in the nine months of 2005, reports Deputy Head of the inspectorate Vyacheslav Tarasov. There are currently 17 regional insurance companies and 165 subsidiaries in the district that offer the obligatory car insurance service.

This year, the experts from the Ural Customs Administration have been trying to decrease the number of goods imported to the region from Kazakhstan that go undeclared or declared wrongly. Trying to declare lighter weights for fruit, vegetables ant other types of agricultural produce appears to be the most commons offense The customs withdrew 2.631m RUR worth of goods and initiated 453 administrative suits and 19 criminal suits in 2006, all due to the false weight figures. They also imposed 680,000 RUR worth of fines. It looks like the main reason for these violations of the law is the lack of

According to UrBC’s own sources, an accident occurred on the premises of Mega Trade Center on December 24, 2006. A worker fell down from the roof of the building and got seriously injured, with many broken bones, bruises, and a head trauma. He was taken to the municipal clinic 24. The hospital refused to comment on the condition of the victim.

Committee of Rosnedra (Russian Subsoil Resources) for early termination of enjoyment rights annulled the license allowing UralElectroMed to use the cinder dumps of Metallurgical Complex of Kirovgrad. The decision was taken on December 22, 2006 based on the examinations carried out by Rostechnadzor that revealed that even though the company had been supposed to start processing them no later than December 31, 2003, it actually never even drew up a plan for it.

Mayor of Berezovskiy Vyacheslav Brozovskiy held a meeting with the deceived co- investors of Noviy Grad on December 21, 2006, Vasiliy Ganzhin, Chairman of Right to a Dwelling, a non-profit organization, said to UrBC representative. ‘Mr Brozovskiy spoke about the building constructed by Noviy Grad in Berezovskiy. People who invested money in this building prepared a report on its condition and on the failed deadlines. Noviy Grad promised to put the ten-storey building in commission in the fourth quarter of 2007 and started signing agreements at the beginning of 2005,’ Mr Ganzhin said. ‘Yet Mr

The projects designed by Metallurgical Industrial Complex of Nizhniy Tagil (part of Evraz Group) are aimed at realizing the National Education Project in the Urals. For one thing, the company has recently conducted the competition devoted to the historic heritage of Evraz Group, with college students and professors as well as school teachers and students taking part. The contestants presented their research works on the history of metallurgical and ore mining industries in the Urals, and on the current performance of Evraz Group in the region (projects devoted to Metallurgical Industrial

Now that the holiday season is there, MegaFon Ural is offering its clients a new USSD-service known as Greetings to the Loved Ones. The subscribers can use the interesting greetings and toasts that can be easily edited, completed with names and sent to friends or relatives.

The competition for the best architectural design of Academic construction area is held in Yekaterinburg. The Rector of Ural State Architectural Academy Alexander Starikov, Managing Director of Academic Construction project Stanislav Pridvizhkin, and other members of the assessing board have already looked at the student projects. However, since there were very many of them, the board decided to look at them in all the detail within a week. The final meeting of the board has been scheduled for December 29, 2006. The competition was announced by the Academy and Renova Stroy Group on September

‘There are certain requirements for the minimal number of parking lots that have to be provided near shops and trade centers, but these requirements are somewhat outdated. They do not correspond with the current rate of car use in large cities and will have to be changed in 2007. Even now, no building, be it a store, an office facility, or a block of flats, can be put in commission without enough parking space, including the underground areas,’ Deputy Mayor of Yekaterinburg Viktor Konteev announced in the course of the meeting devoted to the consumer market success in 2006. ‘One reason why