The Police of St. Petersburg conducts a preliminary investigation on the fact of a brawl that occurred in the theological cemetery, where the famous rock singer Viktor Tsoi was buried. To calm the hooligans, the police had to use weapons. Apparently, the perpetrators of the incident came to the grave of Tsoi to honor his memory on the anniversary of death.

Vladimir Kulikov, vice-president of the Athletics Federation of St. Petersburg, said that one of the participants in the US women's team, who won gold medals in the 4x400 m relay at the 2012 Olympics, passed a positive doping test. "The American athlete, who took part in that relay, was convicted of the use of prohibited drugs. And now, at the level of the International Olympic Committee, the issue of depriving the US Gold medal is resolved, " Baltinfo quoted Kulikov quoted.

The governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko met the day before with the top bloggers of Runet, who arrived in the Northern capital for the Saint Petersburg seminar through the eyes of the country, which discussed the primary tasks facing the city-the preservation of its historical center, the resettlement of communal apartments and the solution of a transport problem. Answering the question of what I managed to do during my stay in the post of Governor of St.

The famous journalist and co-founder of the Voter League Sergey Parkhomenko published on the Web a list of “phantom sites” in St. Petersburg, who allegedly voted in the president’s past elections on March 4 by the overwhelming majority of votes for candidate Vladimir Putin. “I continue to read about the presidential elections in St. Petersburg. A whole bag of lawsuits. One by one.

Strange precipitation was scared by the inhabitants of some areas of Omsk on Thursday morning - on the hoods of cars, foliage, asphalt and window sills lay small white and grayish powder, without smell, looking like washing or dental (a series of photographs, as well as the video , published by the local portal "City5.ru" ).

The Proton-M launch vehicle on August 6 did not bring the Express MD2 and Telkom-3 satellites to the calculated orbit due to the emergency work of the Breeze-M Higher Block, the head of Roskosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, confirmed to journalists on Thursday. According to him, the reason is "production in nature", Interfax reports. “There was a clogging of the boost of the additional fuel tanks of the fuel“ Bris -M, ”he explained.

A resident of Israel sued her husband, who for ten years refused to fulfill marital duties. For every night, spent on an empty marriage bed, a woman requires 165 shekels (about 41 US dollars), but she wants to recover about $ 149 thousand from her husband, writes Newsru Israel . In her statement, the offended woman indicates that before the wedding between her and her husband there was sexual relations, but they stopped shortly after they officially registered.

Former Foreign Minister Algeria Lahdar Brahimi agreed to replace Kofi Annan as the UN Special Snow and League of the Arab States in Syria. This was the first to report the Reuters agency. The candidacy of this diplomat was already called in the press . Recall, on August 2, Kofi Annan said that the UN emissar and the Lag to resolve the Syrian conflict will leave the post of emissary on August 31.

On the Kuril Island of Iturup, the volcano Ivan the Terrible occurred. Employees of the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics of the Fear for the RAS recorded its awakening on Wednesday, when the intensity of gases has increased on the northeastern slope, the representative of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies in the Sakhalin Region told RIA Novosti .

The change in the leadership of the State Space Scientific and Production Center named after Khrunichev, which is supposed to occur in the near future, will continue to continue the reform of the industry, which has been talked about the urgent need for a long time. Experts admit that the head of Vladimir Nesterov worthy of working as head of the center named after M.V. Khrunichev and, in fact, recreated the enterprise. However, his resignation will allow you to give way to young professionals.

By the end of the week, the Romanian specialist will be approved by the new head coach of Dynamo Moscow, a source in a football club told the R-Sport agency. On August 14, Petresu left the post of head coach of the Krasnodar Kuban. Dynamo was left without the head coach on August 6, when Sergey Silkin filed in resignation.

In Frankfurt-on-Main, an unusual exhibition in the style of pop art began work. The main theme of the exposition is the idea of ​​the "stupidity of" a modern person living in a consumer society. More specifically, the exhibition presents the most absurd samples of warnings published on the packaging and tags of most goods. "Caution!

LLC Dervis Industrial invests 4.3 billion rubles in the construction of a factory for the production of cars in the Stavropol Territory, Interfax reports with reference to the Directorate on Information Policy and the PR of the Nevinnomyssk administration. The automobile plant will be built in the second stage of the Nevinnomyssk regional industrial park.

On the eve of the announcement of the verdict, three participants of Pussy Riot Judge of the Khamovnichesky Court of the capital, considering the scandalous case of the anti -activists' trick in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, was provided with state protection. The need to ensure security arose due to the fact that the judge Marina Syrova began to act threats.

AvtoVAZ is considering the possibility of equipping the Lada Largus station wagon with a robotic gearbox. The acting director spoke about this in an interview with AvtoSreda. Director of the project "Cars on the B0 platform" Sergei Korzhenovsky. According to him, an automatic transmission for the Lada Largus was not initially planned, since the company did not have a suitable transmission that would combine reasonable cost and high service life.