In St. Petersburg, in the coming days, a new vice-governor will appear in charge of the construction industry. The online publication Fontanka.ru writes that the most likely candidate for this post is the head of the North-West Directorate (SDZ) for construction, reconstruction and restoration, Marat Oganesyan. He is now completing the construction of the second stage of the Mariinsky Theater, and before that he led the reconstruction of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.

An employee of the British charity organization who saved the children from the Akula attack on the Australian beach, was fired upon returning to his homeland. This was reported by the Russian BBC service . At the end of January, the 62-year-old resident of Wales Paul Marshashi drove off a two-meter shark from the shore, where the children frolic. For this, local media dubbed him by the national hero of Australia, and the plot about his heroic act spread around the world.

The St. Petersburg SKA defeated the Cherepovets Severstal in the fourth match of the quarter-final playoff series of the Continental Hockey League (KHL), securing the Gagarin Cup to the semifinals. The meeting, which took place on Tuesday in Cherepovets, ended with a score of 4: 2 in favor of the army from the banks of the Neva. The goals of the winners were abandoned by Dmitry Kalinin, Yuri Aleksandrov, Alexander Kucheyvenko and Evgeny Artyukhin.

The international project "Reading Petersburg" called the European writers selected as a result of the Internet voting, whose books this year were recognized as the best in the opinion of St. Petersburg readers, RIA Novosti reported with reference to Irina Tochilkin, the head of the Literature Department of the Library of Mayakovsky, who initiated the project.

The ex-Minister of Development of Great Paris, Maurice Leroy, will work as an adviser to the deputy mayor of Moscow for urban planning and construction of Marat Khusnullin on a voluntary basis, RIA Novosti told at the Mipim International Exhibition in France Khusnullin. “We pay him only flight and accommodation,” he said.

The authorities of Japan are concerned about the system of charging copyright rewards from the importers of household electronics by the Russian Union of copyright holders (RSP), the president of which is film director Nikita Mikhalkov. The country's embassy in the Russian Federation sent several official letters to the Ministry of Economic Development and the State Duma with a request for its review, Kommersant writes.

The journalist Anhar Kochneva admitted that she could file a lawsuit against the Katar Mezharab canal Al Jazeera: his journalists did not like how she recorded her appeals, which she did under the threats of the militants. According to her, the militants forced her to inform the reporters of the television channel things that are not true, the Russian News Service reports. “They forced me to say that on September 26 I translated some secret negotiations. Moreover, three times rewritten it.

People's Artist of Russia Conductor Wolf Gorelik died on Wednesday night at the 80th year of his life, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, in which the musician has passed the last 20 years of the creative life of the musician. “It happened unexpectedly - on March 10, Wolf Mikhailovich conducted a“ love drink, ”said the representative of the theater’s press service.

The Catholic archbishop of Los Angeles will pay $ 9.9 million as compensation to the victims of the priest Michael Baker, who was covered by the former archbishop of the city, Cardinal Roger Mahoni. According to the terms of the judicial transaction, clergymen do not admit their guilt, and four plaintiffs refuse claims.

Eighty percent of the inhabitants of Africa would like the election of the black pope, but many believe that the Catholic world is not yet ready. This is evidenced by the results of a survey, conducted among 20 thousand inhabitants of eleven African countries, the CNN television company and the Yana Mobile Company. So, 61% of respondents believe that the rest of the Christian world is not ready for the arrival of the African pontiff.

The State Duma deputy from United Russia Irina Yarovaya, who turned out to be a new object of "Pekhting", denies all accusations regarding the residence of an undeclared elite apartment in the center of Moscow. The parliamentarian does not give explanations, obviously, believing that there is no reason to justify. The lady only insists that the "information war" is being conducted against her.

Canadian police officers confiscated an impressive arsenal from their former colleague - a 55 -year -old Royal Horse Police, David Alan Kifta. About seventy units of firearms, including a gun on a carriage, resembling examples of the era of great geographical discoveries and marine pirates, were found in the dwelling of the former order in the province of Ontario. The owner of the arsenal was taken into custody with his 53-year-old wife Marion.

The world famous songwriter and poet Bob Dylan is the first of rock musicians will be a member of the American Academy of Arts and Literature (American Academy of Arts and Letters), writes The Guardian . The Board of Directors could not decide what Dilan’s achievements should be attributed to: to music or literature, therefore it was decided to make it just an honorary member of the Academy, just like Maryl Streep, Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese, whose works are a documentary about Dylan.

The British company Cars for Stars has developed a 4-door limousine design based on the Lamborghini Aventador supercar, Carclub.ru reports. So far, the 4-door Lamborghini Aventador exists only in the form of conceptual sketches, but Cars for Stars states that if there is a sponsor for this project, then the appearance of Aventador limousine is quite real. The specialists of the Cars for Stars, specializing in the rental of luxurious limousines, know the needs of the public as best as possible.

“By the way, another fun fact: the same psychiatrist Fyodor Kondratyev has been heading the expert department at the Serbsky Institute for more than 30 years. Such zealous support for Orthodoxy on his part looks especially wild. This Soviet-era institute itself and punitive psychiatry can be considered practically synonymous.