1999 november 1999

30/11/1999 Today on the River Om, filming began of "Titanic 2". To commemorate the event, Ul. Dekabristov will be renamed Leonardo di Caprio St.

29/11/1999 Sibdermprom Vice-President, Ruslan Sultanov, appeared in court today to answer charges that he stole 4000kg. of fertilizer. He arrived in a red Cherokee accompanied by his counsel, famous Chicago lawyer, Vyecheslav Yolkin.

26/11/1999 Saddam Hussein, Muammar Kaddafi, Ehud Barak and Yasir Arafat arrived yesterday in Omsk for a Middle-East peace conference. In the evening they were the guests of Governor and Mrs. Polezhaev at the Music Theater for a special performance of Jesus Christ Superstar.

25/11/1999 Yesterday Omsk Prosecutor, Sergei Kazakov, requested the public's help in locating his stolen car. It is a red Jeep Cherokee with tinted windows and California license plates.

22/11/1999 Yesterday on Green Island, Governor Leonid Polezhaev and Omsk historian, Ivan Shikhatov, dressed as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, attended the ceremonial opening of Siberian Disneyland.

19/11/1999 Omsk Deputy Mayor, Gennadi Kopeikin, drank the first glass of beer produced by Sibpivpererabot, a beer recycling plant that opened yesterday on Dostoevsky Street next to the Palace of Culture.

18/11/1999 Mayor Valeri Roshchupkin announced that, because the City's computers are not ready for Year 2000, in January there will be complete chaos in Omsk. However, he doubted that anybody would notice any difference.

17/11/1999 At the suggestion of Monica Polezhaeva, Red Star Stadium has been renamed Kenneth Starr Stadium.

16/11/1999 All the enterprises represented at the Small Business Exhibition in the Pushkin Museum have one thing in common - they all began as large businesses.

15/11/1999 Yesterday, following the delivery of 10,000 rickshaws from Singapore, the Omsk Municipal Rickshaw Service began. Mayor, Valeri Roshchupkin and Governor, Leonid Polezhaev, pulled by famous Omsk dissident, Victor Korb, took a ceremonial 20 kilometer first ride from 22nd of April St. to Circular Lake and back.

14/11/1999 Yesterday in Omsk, when asked by a reporter if accusations were true that he had used public funds to buy his new Mercedes, Omsk Regional Minister of Education and Culture, Ivan Shadov, replied, "F--- your mother"

12/11/1999 Leonid Polezhaev announced that he could do nothing to help the famous Omsk dissident, Viktor Korb, obtain a replacement for his stolen Russian passport. However he promised to ask Mrs. Polezhaeva to use her considerable influence with the U.S. Government to obtain for Mr. Korb an American passport.

11/11/1999 Monica Polezhaeva presided at the official renaming of Lenin St. which will now be called John Lennon St.

10/11/1999 Yesterday Omsk Public Prosecutor, Sergei Kazakov, announced the arrest of Sibdermprom Vice President, Ruslan Sultanov, after 4000 kg. of stolen fertilizer were found hidden in his apartment.

05/11/1999 Yesterday, Monica Polezhaeva, accompanied by her son, Elvis Leonidovich, presided at the opening ceremony of the fertilizer factory, "Sibdermprom", located on Krasny Put' next to the Palace of Culture.

03/11/1999 The Singapore Minister of Public Transport, Hong Lee, arrived today in Omsk. Tomorrow he will meet with the Omsk Regional Council to negotiate the sale of 10,000 second-hand rickshaws which are needed to alleviate the public transport crisis.

02/11/1999 Governor Leonid and Monica Polezhaev, suntanned after their honeymoon in Mongolia, held a reception at the Commercial Center to welcome Hillary Clinton, who is spending a week in Omsk to promote her Autobiography. Monica presented Mrs.. Clinton with a box of Siberian "Sibtabakprom" cigars to give to President Clinton.

01/11/1999 Yesterday, the Omsk Tourist Board announced that the Russian gay activist group, Golubaya Rossiya, have chosen Omsk as the site for their annual convention in December. Over 60,000 gays from Russia and 30 other countries are expected to attend. Because of the shortage of hotel rooms, the Tourist Board is looking for 35,000 Omsk familes to act as hosts.