On November 25, VKontakte began testing audio for users. The company representative Yevgeny Krasnikov also confirmed this information. Now the social network is testing it at a “several percent” of users, so “a chance to catch an advertising video is close to zero,” he says. Testing is carried out only in the web version of VKontakte. The advertising audiololic is reproduced after the completion of the track.

The chairman of the board of directors of the National Media Group and the champion of rhythmic gymnastics Alina Kabaeva kept her funds at the bank of the ROC Peresvet, writes Forbes with reference to a source in the bank. According to the source, in Peresvet there were also the funds of the Boxer-Stylawes Alexander Povetkin and volleyball player Ekaterina Gamova. The representative of Povetkin could not confirm or refute the information that the athlete was a client of Peresvet.

“This is not absurdity, but a crime against culture”: Vitaly Mansky - about documentary cinema in Russia and the policy of Medinsky In St. Petersburg on December 1, the tenth festival of documentary films "Artdokfest" starts. Its President Vitaliy Mansky has long been in conflict with the Ministry of Culture: Medinsky refused to support all the director’s projects, and his recent film about North Korea was shot from the show in some cinemas.

Arzamas retold the history of Russian art of the 20th century with the help of a 25-minute video The educational portal Arzamas released a 25-minute video about the history of Russian art in the 20th century. The video talks about how over a hundred years Russian art was able to go from the “tormented Burlak” by Ilya Repin to the “frantic dog” of Oleg Kulik.

Putin called for accelerating the work on the Law "On Responsible Management of Animals" after the case of the "Khabarovsk flayer". The president noted that recently the topic of animal handling has received a wide public outcry, and criticized the State Duma for slow work. He recalled that the deputies were already developing the bill “On the responsible handling of animals”, but did not adopt it.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the head of FIFA Gianni Infantino and told him about the process of building a stadium in St. Petersburg. “This is a very sad story. The builders promise to correct everything by the end of this year, ”said Putin. At the same time, he noted that this is not the largest long -term construction in world sports history.

The Ministry of Emergencies warned Petersburgers about snowfalls and ice on the weekend The State Emergencies Ministry in St. Petersburg warned that in the morning and afternoon of November 26, heavy snowfalls would be held in the city, on the roads in places of ice. At the same time, the weather will begin to deteriorate tonight. In the coming hours on the roads of St. Petersburg and the suburbs there will be ice. Rescuers ask drivers to be more accurate.

St. Petersburg residents took part in the world-famous #MannequinChallenge flash mob, in which people pretend to be mannequins to music. In a video published on social networks, citizens showed their reaction to the increase in the cost of tokens in the metro. The first video with the hashtag #MannequinChallenge was published on October 27. During a flash mob, the camera films people frozen while performing some action.

The blogger Ilya Varlamov wrote a post in which he stated that the new microdistricts like the St. Petersburg Parnas must be demolished. He called such microdistricts a “ghetto” with a lack of infrastructure. As an example of solving the problem of Varlamov, he cited such microdistricts that have already been demolished in other countries of the world. Ilya Varlamov , blogger: - Sooner or later it will become clear that such a format of housing hides a bunch of problems. So what to do?

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko gave guarantees to the International Football Federation (FIFA) that the Krestovsky stadium in St. Petersburg will be ready on time and will host the 2017 Confederations Cup matches. Mutko spoke to FIFA representatives in English, Interfax reports . Vitaly Mutko , Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation: - I gave them all the guarantees, I said “ah uh guarantee.” The 2017 Confederations Cup matches will be held in Moscow, St.

A film crew from the Dozhd TV channel has disappeared in Donetsk. Dozhd correspondents Sergei Erzhenkov and Vasily Polonsky stopped communicating today, November 25. Before his disappearance, Polonsky managed to inform the editors that the film crew was detained by the “Ministry of State Security of the Donetsk People’s Republic.” The MGB hotline told Dozhd that the department made no arrests on Friday.

The Police of St. Petersburg returned the 100-year-old war veteran 2.5 million rubles stolen from his savings, Fontanka reports . The fraudster has already been detained - they turned out to be a lawyer who previously served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At the end of 2015, the war veteran Konstantin Zemkov, who received several orders of the Red Banner at once, came to the bank to withdraw money, but there were no money on the account.

Former vice-governor of St. Petersburg, Marat Oganesyan, appealed his arrest. The St. Petersburg City Court reported that the accused of particularly large fraud during the construction of the stadium on Krestovsky Island did not agree with the arrest for two months and appealed to a higher court with an appeal. The complaint was accepted for production, it will be considered on December 14.

Photographer Sergey Misenko speaks with a Calligraph Painted Lampas [Lead] [p] Lampas Rrashe-25-year-old Calligraph from St. Petersburg. He works in his own technique of Calligraphuturism and experiments with non -standard formats. Among his works, for example, is a series of calligraphy on naked girls. His paintings can be found on buildings in France and Portugal, a personal paint exhibition in Seoul has recently been held.

In the St. Petersburg metro they will begin to sell "plantain" with symbols of Crimea From November 28, in the St. Petersburg metro, the Plantain cards with the symbols of Crimea will be sold. On the map, on the one hand, the sights of Crimea are depicted, and on the other, the symbols of St. Petersburg are depicted. They are connected by the Crimean bridge.