On New Year's Eve, fragments of operas and songs from Soviet films will sound in the center On the night of December 31 to January 1, festive events will be held in the city center. For citizens from 22:00 until 04:00, three sites with an entertainment program will work. This was reported on the website of the city culture committee. The main platform for the celebration of the New Year will be installed on Palace Square near the exit to Millionnaya Street.

Facebook: How feminists and the media are discussing the public "VKontakte" "appraisal" The fourth day on social networks discuss the public “VKontakte” “appraisal”. After one of the users of the social network found their photo there, the media wrote about this, and representatives of the feminist community called for blocking such resources. "Paper" followed how a group with 500 subscribers became a reason for discussions.

Travel on the head section of the Petersburg -Moscow highway will cost about 300 rubles Today in Moscow, the head section of the highway M11 "Moscow-St. Petersburg" has opened. The cost of movement along the new highway passing through the Khimkinsky forest in the Moscow region will be approximately 300 rubles, TASS reports. The exact cost of the fare will be called closer to the summer, until that time the fare will be free.

The truck that lost the trailer created a cork on Stacke Prospekt The truck entering the turn on Stacken Avenue in the Kronstadt Square area lost the trailer, which provoked a traffic jam of more than 3.5 km, eyewitnesses were reported in the DTP and Emergencies of St. Petersburg. According to the Yandex service. Traffic jams ”at 9:00, the length of the traffic jams on the strike of Stackes is 3.6 km, the flow rate does not exceed 5-7 km/h.

Since 2016, a 50 percent discount will apply for some traffic police fines Today, Vladimir Putin signed amendments to the Code of the Russian Federation on administrative offenses, according to which drivers who prematurely pay fines for frivolous violations will be able to receive a 50 percent discount, writes TASS . The new law will begin to operate on January 1, 2016.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the wife of the former director of the Corruption Fund The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the leaders of the Bureau-17 advertising agency Alexandrina Markvo and Andrei Mylnikov and the head of the company Slava Olga Voznikov, who, according to state contracts in 2011-2014, held events in Moscow that popularize reading. This was reported on the website of CC.

On the green line of the metro train, trains went with an increased interval The green line trains from Vasileostrovskaya station to Mayakovskaya go with an increased interval. Readers reported this by the editors of Fontanka.ru . Such information is reported to passengers by speakerphone. Readers also write that the reason for the difficulty of moving along the third line is the breakdown of the Neva composition. However, this information has not yet been confirmed.

The police detained a participant in the opposition campaign under the slogan “Crisis. Inevitable! Winter! Yours! ”, UPD The police detained the activist of the RPR "Parnassus" Andrei Ermachenkov. Ermachenkov was among those who hung a poster on the bridge with the image of Putin and the inscription “Crisis. Inevitable! Winter! Yours! ”, Reported in the group“ Help for detainees in St. Petersburg ”.

Clients of the St. Petersburg travel agency are looking for missing company leaders with money About two dozen tourists cannot contact the leadership of the tourist agency Sunny Sky Travel, which ceased to answer calls and disappeared from the rented office, the girl Maria, who paid for the ticket to the agency, told Paper .

From January 1, tariffs for travel in suburban trains will increase According to the order of the Petersburg Tariffs Committee from January 1 to December 31, 2015, the maximum maximum tariffs for travel to the natural train will be increased, Fontanka.ru reports. This will also affect retail prices for tickets. For the first 20 kilometers of travel, the maximum tariff will increase from 34.6 to 38 rubles, the cost of each next kilometer - from 1.73 to 1.9 rubles.

Cinema -birch Aleksey Medvedev - about festivals of a new format, a letter in support of Putin and the main fears of the organizers Recently, in St. Petersburg, the disgraced Moscow Festival of Documentary Cinema "Artdokfest" ended. In the Ministry of Culture, the look was refused financing, but he not only did not close, but also expanded immediately to three cities.

Increase in imports for imported wine in 2015 can reach 50 % Import wine in the new year may rise in price by 30-50 %. This newspaper Izvestia was reported by suppliers of European wine for the domestic market. According to the publication, importers will be forced to raise the cost of alcoholic beverages due to fluctuations in the exchange rate. According to Svetlana Arsenashvili, the director of the Vintage M-Mporter company, the rise in price is inevitable.

The State Duma allowed to advertise Russian alcohol on television The State Duma on Tuesday, December 23, in the second and third readings, adopted a law allowing to advertise Russian wine and beer on radio and television, write RIA Novosti. New norms will enter into force on January 1, 2015, the newspaper writes. So, according to amendments, television and radio channels will be able to advertise beer, wine and champagne made in Russia from 23:00 to 7:00 local time.

On the days of the New Year holidays at the Palace, the Christmas 3D show will be shown On the facade of the General Staff, the 3D show “New Year's Journey” will be shown within a week. The New Year program is devoted to the traditions of Christmas celebration in different countries and from different nations. According to the city administration, the show will begin at 18:00 every day from December 28 to January 7. Entrance to the event on Palace Square is free.

"Soldiers' mothers of St. Petersburg" will challenge the status of a foreign agent The October Court of St. Petersburg will consider the statement of the NPO “Soldiers' mothers of St. Petersburg” on recognizing it illegal to enter it in the list of foreign agents, according to the organization’s website. The hearing will be held on December 23 at 11:30 in the Oktyabrsky District Court of the city. "Soldiers' mothers of St. Petersburg" were on the list of foreign agents in early August.