The chairman of the Committee on Social Policy, Alexander Rzhannkov, did not support the idea of ​​conducting grocery certificates for the poor, which was previously announced by the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov. Rzhanenkov said that he does not support such a program in large cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg. But such support measures can be tested among the rural population.

The Russian BBC service found out that the cultural institutions of Moscow and St. Petersburg from the end of 2016 do not pay salaries in full or partially. Among other things, the salary is not paid at the Moscow Conservatory named after Tchaikovsky. A similar situation has developed at the St. Petersburg Conservatory named after the Rimsky-Korsakov, the Opera and Ballet Theater of this Conservatory, the State Institute of Art of Arts and the Russian Institute of Art History.

Corruption fighters asked the Prosecutor General to figure out why the deputies cannot be dismissed in St. Petersburg Representatives of the anti -corruption organization Transparency International wrote an appeal to the prosecutor’s office, since in St. Petersburg it is impossible to dismiss deputies even after their serious violations. This was announced by the head of the St. Petersburg branch of the organization Dmitry Sukharev.

The lifestyle of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril is far from the luxurious, said the head of the Synodal Department for the relationship between the Russian Orthodox Church with society and the media, Vladimir Legoyd on the air of the RTVI television channel. Vladimir Legoyda , Quote for Interfax: - He does not have a luxurious lifestyle. He has inhuman loads and inhuman schedule.

An explosion occurred in the garages on Ryabovskoye Shosse. There is a victim An explosion occurred in the garages on Ryabovskoye Shosse. As a result, a man who was at the epicenter of the explosion was badly injured. According to Fontanka, explosives arrived on Ryabovskoye Shosse, 151 at 20:40. Presumably, the victim received serious injuries of hands. According to preliminary information, the cause of the explosion could be a shell located one of the premises.

The Director General of the RND Alexander Vislyi and the head of the Moscow RSL, Vladimir Gnezdilov, unveiled a document with a proposal for the merger of libraries. This happened during a press conference in TASS. “The unification of the resources of the RSA and the RSN has long been shaken and due to the rapid development of information technology and the complex financial and economic situation,” the letter said in January to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in January.

The St. Petersburg SKS adopted a bill on the renaming of the Parnassus municipal district to Sergievskoye in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh in the third reading. According to the head of the district, Alexei Cherezov, the municipal district is constantly confused with the Opposition Party "Parnassus" and the residents during the elections had to explain more than once that they were in no way connected. The idea to rename the municipality belongs to the deputy Yevgeny Marchenko.

Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, commenting on the situation around his dissertation, said that "some unemployed opposition figures have nothing to do." Vladimir Medinsky , Minister of Culture: - There is an authority of Moscow State University. When some unemployed opposition figures do not know what to do ... I have something to do, but they have nothing. I don’t even remember their names. And I do not want to remember.

The director of the Russian National Library (RND) Alexander Visly explained the dismissal of the chief bibliographer Tatyana Shumilova. Visly claims that he fired her for violation of labor discipline. Alexander Visly , the head of the RND: - I am the general director of the library, in which women mainly work. There was no case in a year so that I did not sign a permit for a absence for half a day, for a day, for two. Children, grandchildren, etc., various other reasons are.

The real income of Petersburgers fell 3.1 %in 2016, Petrostat reports on March 1. At the same time, the average salary in the cities amounted to 48.7 thousand rubles, which is 10.5 % more than in 2015. But the real wage, calculated with inflation, grew by only 3.3 %. At the end of the year, there were 11.9 thousand official unemployed in the city, which is 12 % less than a year earlier. At the same time, St. Petersburg employers owed 1342 employees of 116 million rubles.

The first flowers blossomed in the botanical garden In the park of the Botanical Garden, the first flowers - spring -related ones, blossomed this year. Today in St. Petersburg they recorded the warmest first day of spring.

In 2017, the warmest first day of spring was recorded in St. Petersburg. This was announced by the chief weather forecaster of the city, Alexander Kolesov. The previous record was set in 1989. Then the air temperature on March 1 in Leningrad reached +5 degrees. Today in St. Petersburg it was already warmed up to +5.2 degrees. Forecasters expect that during the day the temperature will increase a little more. The final results will summarize at the end of the day. “Follow the turn!

On March 1, the authorities of St. Petersburg announced a competition for the organization of the city exposition and the events of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (PMEF). The contractor will have to prepare stands, catering and souvenir products for 51 million rubles. In addition, it will be necessary to prepare a design project and build up the exposition of the city with an area of ​​at least 3 thousand square meters.

On International Cats Day, in the Leningrad Zoo they talked about a cat Dus, who lives with Lynes Linda. Animals have been friends for ten years. When they were settled together, both of them were about two months. Once Dusya and Linda were almost the same size. Now the lynx is ten times more. Animals are lunch separately, but play together.

On the International Theater Day, March 27, the action "Theater.go" will be held throughout Russia. For 24 hours at Yandex.apisha, spectators will be able to buy tickets for performances until the end of the theater season with a discount of up to 90%. More than 100 theaters from 17 cities of Russia have already connected to the project, including more than 20 from St. Petersburg.