Director died, who made the film "In love with his own free will" In St. Petersburg, at the age of 93, director Sergei Mikaelyan died. This was reported by the Lenfilm film studio. The date and place of farewell to the director have not yet been named. People's Artist of Russia and a veteran of the Great Patriotic War Sergey Mikaelyan is known for the paintings “In love with his own free will”, “Prize”, “I am going to a thunderstorm”. Michaelyan made many films at the St. Petersburg Lenfilm.

Russia and Japan plan to facilitate the visa regime in relation to each other. This was announced by the press secretary of the Japanese Foreign Ministry of Yashis Kavamur. According to Kavamur, this will be announced during the visit of Vladimir Putin to Japan on December 15-16. The weakening of the visa regime will spread to all regions of Russia. The fact that Japan intends to facilitate the visa regime for Russians was reported in May 2016.

The Committee for the Development of the Transport Infrastructure of St. Petersburg is preparing documents of the competition to continue the embankment of the Obvodny Canal. The cost of work will be 1.5 billion rubles. The price of the competition increased by 150 million rubles compared to the past. In October of this year, the city did not receive a single application for participation, since the price did not suit potential contractors.

Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuri Timchenko was arrested until February 7 under Art. 290 "Receiving a bribe on an especially large scale." The chief of the Main Directorate of Own Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the North-Western Federal District is suspected of receiving a bribe of 50 million rubles. In the courtroom, Yuri Timchenko said that he did not consider himself guilty: “He did not exhaust and did not receive money.

The authorities of the Leningrad region promised to punish the oranizers of anti -terrorism teaching at a medical college in Tikhvin. It was attended by people dressed in costumes with fake suatherers. Preliminary verification revealed violations. According to the deputy chairman of the Leningrad Region Government Nikolai Emelyanov, strict disciplinary and administrative punishment measures will be taken. Claims for teaching concern both students' informing and the visual component of the event.

The remaining Galaxy Note 7 circulation will be forcibly locked Samsung promised to forcibly disconnect the Galaxy Note 7 circulation. Updating the software that will be released on December 19 will block the charging of batteries and connect to mobile networks and Wi-Fi. The companies failed to solve the problem of fire batteries. Users handed over about 93 % of the purchased phones of this model.

The swimmers of the Russian male team took the gold to the relay of 4 by 50 meters by rabbit. Their result was one minute 24.32 seconds. The medal has become the eleventh for the competition. This is the biggest result of the country's national team after ten medals in Dubai in 2010. The Russians went around the United States national team. The Americans showed the result of one minute 24.51 seconds.

Russia will reduce oil production by 300 thousand barrels per day. Such a decision was made after the OPEC countries at the end of November 2016 entered into an agreement to reduce production. Together with other countries that are not part of the OPEC, Russia also decided to reduce prey. The volumes will be reduced by 300 thousand barrels per day. At the same time, other countries will reduce production by 600 thousand barrels per day.

In St. Petersburg, they will hold an exhibition of computer graphics Boris Grebenshchikov On December 13, an exhibition of computer graphics by Boris Grebenshchikov “Infra Petersburg” will open in the St. Petersburg Gallery “Borea”. The exhibition will present the city landscapes of St. Petersburg in the interpretation of Boris Grebenshchikov. In his works, the musician draws a parallel between St. Petersburg and Tibet.

90-minute and 24-hour travel tickets will go on sale in St. Petersburg in March 2017. First Deputy Chairman of the Transport Committee Elena Osintseva told Radio Baltika about this. Both types of tickets will only be valid on public transport. It is assumed that a 90-minute ticket will allow you to change transport an unlimited number of times in an hour and a half. The cost of the new types of passes is not yet known. They will begin testing in January 2017.