The final results of the municipal elections in St. Petersburg are still unknown. Minor officials falsify results in front of an astonished public. Two days after the voting, it is impossible to say definitely about the success of this or that political force in the municipal elections. The last message on the City Election Commission website was published on September 8 and talks about the progress of voting by 18:00 - when the polls had not yet closed.

The voices of St. Petersburg voters were bought in a photo studio, and not only in it. On the day of the elections, since the morning, people in bright salts with green folders appeared on the Vasilyevsky Island in St. Petersburg from the polling stations. Particularly curious they answered that it was eczitpols: they interviewed voters. The "sociologists" behaved strange.

The court left the St. Petersburg defendants in the Network case in custody*, without assessing their readiness to be exemplary house arrests. Viktor Filinkov and Yulian Boyarshinov have been behind bars since January 2018. The state prosecution completed presenting its evidence three months ago, but insists that the defendants are still able to influence it if they find themselves outside the pre-trial detention center.

The victory of Alexander Beglov in the gubernatorial elections in the “cultural capital” surprised many. However, there is no need to be surprised. Beglov is quite adequate to the city, which throughout the 20th century went through several brutal “purges” (Bolshevik repressions against “old cadres”, Stalinist repressions, the fascist blockade, the “Leningrad affair”) and lost a lot of people.

Particularly active for the acting governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov voted the townspeople, who left for the summer as far as possible. In the election of the St. Petersburg governor for Alexander Beglov, according to preliminary data, about 64% of voters voted with a 30 percent turnout. But there is some anomaly. The most actively voted Petersburgers, who were on August 8 in the Pskov region. 82.5% of them took part in the vote, giving a record 81% of the vote for Beglov.