The former head of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Senator Vadim Tyulpanov, died. Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, whom journalists, when working in the parliamentary pool, considered insufficiently democratic and constantly teased him. It was only later that everyone realized that in modern realities he was perhaps a greater liberal than many “regular” oppositionists. A senator whose hand did not raise his hand to vote for the “Dima Yakovlev Law”, and he said he was sick.

An explosion on the stretch between the Tekhnologichesky Institute and Sennaya Ploshchad stations occurred around 2:40 p.m.; another explosive device, at Ploshchad Vosstaniya, was discovered 10–15 minutes earlier (according to other sources, later). Just at this time, Vladimir Putin was finishing his conversation with journalists at the ONF media forum “Truth and Justice.” Does it make sense to link these events? Putin traditionally attends St.

How taxi services complied with the order to transport people for free, and volunteers saved the city for no reason. An hour and a half after the terrorist attack, it became known that the city metro was closed. And immediately two VKontakte communities – SPB.AVTO and Autovolunteers – posted the following entry: “We ask all drivers to help people for free!

If the frame metal detector system worked, then how did a bag with a kilogram of explosives end up in the subway? Four months ago, Novaya published an article “The Illusion of Security” - about the fact that the metal detector frames installed at all St. Petersburg metro stations are profanation. Officials then swore that “everything was under control” and the townspeople had nothing to worry about. Today their assurances sound especially relevant.

What eyewitnesses of the events of April 3, their loved ones and those who were spared by the tragedy write on social networks. *** “Take care of each other... I’m alive, I left five minutes before the explosion ... I’m going home in shock... The kingdom of heaven to those who died, and recovery. To those who are wounded... Relatives and friends of those with whom trouble happened... Hold on!!!!!!!!!!!” *** “My sister found herself at the epicenter of events.

On the night of April 4, St. Petersburg residents honored the memory of the victims of the terrorist attack in the metro. Improvised memorials of flowers and candles formed near the Spasskaya and Tekhnologichesky Institut stations in the evening after the explosion . Half an hour before midnight, Vladimir Putin appeared at Tekhnolozhka with a bouquet of red roses.

. Lara GALL, writer, translator: “Terezka, my youngest daughter, a student, was traveling home from lectures in the carriage where the explosion occurred between Senna and Tekhnolozhka. The Lord saved her, with some minor deductions - the eardrum in her right ear burst, a piece of muscle on her thigh (the size of a nickel) was torn out. There are many micro-splinters embedded throughout my body that cannot be removed - very tiny, superficial wounds.

The opinion of Tatyana Shumilova’s bibliographer dismissed from the RSN of the bibliographer does not affect the process of merging libraries, they found out in court. But her excessive professional activity is alarming. On April 4, a preliminary meeting on the claim of Tatyana Shumilova against the ex-employer was held in the Smolninsky District Court. "New" has already written about the circumstances of the honored bibliographer of the Public.

By the centenary of the events of 1917-18. Museum workers are looking for new approaches to the involvement of the audience So far, the official state ideology seeks to give domestic history the format of a strict vertical, Russian museums (following the world) are increasingly abandoning the direct assessment and interpretation of the events of the past.