Hundreds of metal detectors in the St. Petersburg metro, designed to protect citizens from terrorists, do not fulfill their task a year after installation. This text was published in November 2016. “Young man, please come through,” - in the upper lobby of the Chernyshevskaya station, a metro police officer addresses a Novaya correspondent who has just passed through the frames at the entrance.

The explosion in the tunnel on the blue branch between the Sennaya and the Technological Institute occurred at about 14:40. 14 people died, about 60 were injured. 23:53 The first suspect that the press wrote about came to the police and stated that he was innocent.