The film "Paradise" directed by Andrei Konchalovsky entered the short list of the Oscar prize in the nomination "Best Foreign Language Film". In total, nine films were included in the short list. In addition to “Paradise” in the list films from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Iran, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The Long list of the nomination was attended by 85 films.

The Internet portal "Kinopoisk" has compiled a selection of quotes of Soviet film critics, reasoning about the release of Star Wars. The material is divided into five parts: from anger to the adoption of the Lucas trilogy. Soviet observers in their articles scolded the “war of stars”, accusing the anti -Soviet propaganda, and also retold the plot, mentioning who the father of Luke Skywalker.

On Leninsky Prospekt, passers -by saved the girl from rape and were able to detain the criminal before the police arrived, reports the Main Investigative Committee of the IC of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg. According to the investigation, on the night of December 15, a man attacked a local resident at the house of 128 on Leninsky Prospekt. He tried to rape her, but the girl actively resisted, which attracted the attention of passers -by.

A chapel is demolished on Sennaya Square On Sennaya Square, the dismantling of the chapel began in the name of the Holy Great Martyr John Sochavsky. An excavator works on the site enclosed by the fence. Video: "Radio Baltic" The chapel, built in 2003, is demolished before a large -scale reconstruction, told in the parish of the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The area of ​​the room is intended to expand from 16.6 to 109 square meters.

From December 19 to December 31, traffic on both sides of the Neva will be blocked due to the New Year's light show, the Committee for the Development of Transport Infrastructure reports . The first to block Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt. Its right strip on the site from the Kronverkskaya embankment to the Trinity Bridge and on the bridge itself will be inaccessible to travel from December 19 to December 31.

The Petersburger made his way to the Zenit stadium and climbed onto the roof of the arena under construction Rufer Alexander Monastyrev made his way to the construction of the new Zenit stadium and climbed onto its roof.

The court arrested the property of the former Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev, who is accused of extortion and receiving a bribe, Interfax reports with reference to its own source. When arrested and what property of the former minister was arrested was not reported.

The opening of the central section of the WHSD led to the beams in unexpected places, but in general it became free on the roads, said Yandex.prob analyst Leonid Mednikov. According to him, a difficult situation is now on the ZSD itself on the site from Leninsky Prospekt to Blagodnoye. There, from December 4, problems arose in the morning hour-rush. But, if on the first day the drivers lost 20 minutes on the site there, now it’s already 3-4 minutes.

The work of collectors in Russia can be suspended from January 1, 2017, Kommersant reports . The publication notes that, according to the presidential decree, from the beginning of next year, only those collectors that will be included in the special register of the bailiff service will be able to work in Russia. However, this decree is not enough to start supervision of the collectors and the formation of the register.

At the weekend, Petersburgers are waiting for warmth and ice At the weekend in St. Petersburg, he will warm again, said Yuri Kutkevich, head of the weather bureau of the Russian State Hydrometeorological University. The temperature on Saturday afternoon will be about -1 ..+2 degrees, light snow with rain is expected. On Sunday, about 0 ... -2 degrees are expected. On the roads and sidewalks there will be ice.

Employees of the Department of Economic Security and Combating Corruption of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the region came with searches for the Circus on Fontanka. Operators seize documents in the cabinets of the circus. According to Fontanka, searches are associated with the alleged theft of funds under the state contract of 2014-2015. According to preliminary information, we are talking about the purchase of Shapito.

The publication "Business Petersburg" analyzed the vocabulary of the Leningrad group. Journalists downloaded all the texts in one file and, using a special service, found out what words are most often found in songs, what is the percentage of repeated words in different albums and whether the cords began to swear less on the stage over the past year. The words “everything”, “love”, “woman” turned out to be the most common.

Yandex made a film for Kandinsky's anniversary using neural networks Yandex, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the artist Wassily Kandinsky, released a film created using neural networks that were trained on the work of the abstract artist.

On Tuesday, December 16, 2014, the ruble collapsed in relation to the dollar and the euro, the last course grew to 100 rubles. Two years later, the euro lasts at the level of 64–65 rubles - this is its lower border over the past year and a half. By the two years of the Black Tuesday, “Paper” found out from the Petersburgers standing in line to the exchange point, why they came to change the money, as they behaved two years ago and what they expect from the New Year.

At the Obvodny Canal, a woman fell under a moving bus At the stop at the Obvodny Canal metro station, the woman fell under the moving bus, the traffic police said. The victim was hospitalized with severe injuries. According to eyewitnesses, the woman “became bad”, she staggered when the bus began to move from the stop. Due to the accident on Ligovsky Prospekt, a cork was formed.