The team of 82-year-old siege survivor Lyudmila Vasilyeva failed to collect enough signatures to nominate her for governor of St. Petersburg. This was reported in the Telegram channel of Vasilyeva's team. They noted that they managed to collect over 5.5 thousand signatures. Vasilyeva, as an independent candidate, needed to collect at least 76 thousand signatures. The city election commission previously specified that this is 2% of the 3.8 million residents of St.

Test about the most dangerous Russian insects The temperature on the planet continues to grow - 2023 was the hottest in the history of observations. Fetting affects not only people: it significantly expanded the habitat of harmful insects, and they began to spread to new regions, previously too cold for them. Many of them pose a danger to humans: tolerate deadly diseases, viruses and parasites. Check what you know about these insects, in the dough of the "cold".

The Academic Council of the European University in St. Petersburg has closed the political science department at the university. Political scientist and dean of the department Grigory Golosov reported this on Facebook. According to him, the academic council made a similar decision last Wednesday. Those who completed their master's degree this year defended their theses and, as Golosov noted, became the last graduates of the faculty.

Strange messages from the disappeared lead the police to the secret cellar of the latter who saw him alive In a small Chinese village, with a difference of two days, the Liu brothers disappear. The police are heating, but the investigation begins. Soon, a series of messages from one of the missing leads them to the house of a local resident. For seven years she managed to hide her crimes and adjust everything so that they did not even begin to look for victims.

Employees at the World Economic Forum in Davos have spoken out about discrimination against women and people of color, as well as harassment by management, The Wall Street Journal reports . The article states that at least six employees faced pressure, including dismissals, due to pregnancy and after returning from maternity leave. Another six employees reported harassment by senior managers, some of whom are still employed.

China's Tianbing Technology, part of the Space Pioneer venture, said the first stage of its Tianlong-3 rocket had broken away from the launch pad during testing, Reuters reported . The incident occurred due to a structural failure. The broken off part fell near the city of Gunyi in central China. The agency notes that parts of the rocket stage were scattered in a "safe zone" but caused a local fire. There are no reports of casualties or injuries as a result of the incident.

American rapper Kanye West, who officially changed his name to Ye in 2021, has arrived in Moscow. This was reported on the Telegram channel by producer Yana Rudkovskaya. "Kanye West is already in Moscow! This is super news! He stopped in the very heart of the capital! Fingers crossed for a show in Luzhniki in the future!" Rudkovskaya wrote. The magazine Moskvichka published a video in which, allegedly, the rapper is walking along an underground passage near Okhotny Ryad.

Sponsors of the US Democratic Party are discussing the possible replacement of incumbent President Joe Biden with another candidate in the upcoming presidential election, The New York Times reports , citing sources. One of the people involved in the discussions said that rules were discussed with political advisers under which Biden could be removed from the ticket against his will and replaced at or before the Democratic National Convention.

Russia has jammed the GPS signal on more than 100 UK aircraft this year, The Telegraph reports , citing data from Flightradar24. The reporters' analysis of the data looked at flights made by 63 British aircraft between January 1 and April 30, covering a total of 1,467 flights across Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Journalists found that GPS interference was observed on 142 transport and observation flights out of 504, the route of which passed through Eastern Europe.

The head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, stood up for Evgeniya Makeeva, a doctor from Khasavyurt, who was subjected to harassment after messages spread on social networks that she allegedly refused to serve a patient wearing a niqab. Melikov published the post on his Telegram channel.