The head of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko on April 4, demonstratively went to work on the subway in order to dispel the fears of Petersburgers with their example, who are afraid to go down to the city subway after the attack on the eve of the attack .

The supermarket in the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg was evacuated due to the ownerless bag found there, but nothing dangerous was discovered, Fontanka reports with reference to the press service of the Directorate of the Russian Guard in the city. Around 9:20 in the morning on April 4, the police received a message that in the Lenta supermarket on Babushkin Street, 125 in the cell of the storage room found a suspicious object. Law enforcement officers and explosives left for the place.

The Olympic Sochi Champion in women's solitary skating, the skater Adelina Sotnikova ceased to cooperate with the mentor Elena Buyanova and began to work with Evgeny Plushenko, who announced the beginning of the coaching career. This was reported by the Agency "R-Sport" with reference to a source familiar with the situation. 20-year-old Sotnikova began to work with Buyanova at the age of eight.

The media are trying to find out why there were ineffective metal detectors installed two years ago in the metro of St. Petersburg, who did not prevent the explosion on April 3, which claimed the lives of 14 people. The authorities will deal with the causes of the tragedy at the federal level. On Tuesday, it became known that the senators intend to discuss the issues of countering terrorism with Deputy Minister of the Interior Alexander Gorov.

The alleged suicide bomber, who arranged a terrorist attack in the metro of St. Petersburg, was called Maxim Aryshev, reports Fontanka . According to the publication, a 22-year-old man was a native of Kazakhstan. His body was allegedly in the epicenter of the explosion, which gave the basis the investigation to assume about his involvement in the terrorist attack. In the Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan, this information was refuted.

In recent months, the predictions of the probability of cancellation of Western sanctions against the Russian Federation have changed dramatically, economists no longer wait for it this year, Bloomberg writes. Of the 20 economists surveyed by Bloomberg from March 28 to 30, only three (15%) expect that both the United States and the European Union will begin to mitigate sanctions in the next 12 months.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that exempts from paying taxes in Russia to individuals under the sanctions of the West. It is called the Timchenko Law on the basis that, as the press wrote, in reality, only a narrow circle of people from Putin, businessmen Gennady Timchenko and Arkady Rotenberg , head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, can take advantage of the amendment to Chapter 23 of the Part 2 of the Tax Code. The document is published on the official portal of legal information.

The head of the Department of Judgeing and Inspecting the Russian Football Union (RFU) Andrei Budogossky denied information about his resignation. The media reported that he submitted an application for departure from his position.

Ilya Novikov “That immediately after the explosions, the middle authorities ran like headless hens and began to strengthen chaos in every way - this happens everywhere. No one is ready for terrorist attacks except Israel,” the lawyer writes Facebook . “True, we have this chaos with its color. In St. Petersburg to the subway, where all the bad things have already happened, for some reason the riot police dump truck was sent.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov considers the attack in St. Petersburg a challenge for Vladimir Putin - as for any other Russian. The Kremlin spokesman drew attention to the fact that the explosion in the subway occurred when the head of state was in the northern capital. “Of course, the very fact that the attack was committed while being in the city of the head of state makes us think about it. This is an object for analyzing special services.

In Turkey, 18 people were detained when trying to illegally go across the border from Syria, including a Chechen with 1.5 kg of explosives, Daily Sabah reports with reference to the statement of the country's Ministry of Defense. In addition to explosives, the native of Chechnya had two hand grenades with him. The Turkish special services suspect him of his intention to commit an attack, an investigation has begun.

The authorities of New York, after a terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro, decided to strengthen the security of their own subway, Bill de Blazio, mayor of the American metropolis, said at a press conference on Monday at a press conference. According to him, law enforcement officers armed with long -range firearms and service dogs will appear on the streets of the city.

Russia arranged a deliberate provocation, deciding to send to the international song contest "Eurovision 2017" in Kyiv singer Yulia Samoilova, said Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko at a briefing in Latvia. "Russia did not require participation in" Eurovision ", it required a provocation," his site quoted 112.ua quotes.

At the end of 2017, the Russian holding Schwabe will conduct a powerful ship laser in the Arkhangelsk region, designed to crack ice in front of the ship. The message about this was published on the holding website . The laser ship installation was developed by the specialists of the Schwabe enterprise - the National Center for Laser Systems and Complexes of Astrophysics.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ironically commented on the recent joke of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson about the inability to dance with the head of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation. “My mother also forbade me to dance with the boys,” RIA Novosti quotes Lavrov’s answer to the request to comment on Tillerson's words.