The shopping center was evacuated on Culture Avenue On Culture Avenue, 41 evacuated the shopping and entertainment complex "Park House", eyewitnesses in the group "DTP and PE" reported. Police and firefighters have already arrived in the place.

In St. Petersburg, law enforcement officers during the search found 605 million rubles in the old sofa, writes Fontanka. This information was confirmed by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Irina Volk. The searches took place in connection with the case under Article 172 of the Criminal Code (“illegal banking in an organized group with the extraction of income on an especially large scale”).

A drawing with riot police and a demonstrator appeared on the building of the political police museum On the building of the Museum of the Political Police (branch of the Museum of Political History) at 2 Gorokhovaya Street, an image of OMON employees appeared who detained the demonstrator with the Russian flag. The picture was published on Facebook by St.

Petersburgers share photos and videos of a powerful starfall in the sky above the city in social networks. Earlier, NASA warned that on the night of December 14, the inhabitants of the Earth would be able to see the meteor stream of heminida. Heminids are one of the most powerful meteor streams. It is due to the fact that the Earth passes through the swarm of small particles thrown into space asteroid of the phaeton.

The human rights organization "Agora", representing the interests of Telegram, turned to the UN with a request to influence the situation around the messenger. The Agora believes that in the coming weeks, Telegram can be blocked in Russia. This was announced in his telegram channel the head of the organization Pavel Chikov.

In the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic, on December 19, the “Requiem” of Giuseppe Verdi will be performed . The concert will be dedicated to Dmitry Hvorostovsky. About 200 musicians from different countries, including the soloists of the Bolshoi Theater Dinar Aliyev and Dmitry Beloselsky, the soloist of the Mikhailovsky Theater Olesya Petrov and the Italian tenor Francesco Meli, will enter the scene of the Philharmonic.

The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov in an interview with Russia 24 said that the Kremlin did not see competitors to Vladimir Putin in the upcoming elections. Dmitry Peskov , quote for Interfax: - We see many worthy people, but we do not see competitors. Still, from my point of view, the competitor to Putin has not yet matured, even close. Earlier, Putin said that he would participate in the presidential election in 2018.

VKontakte social network allowed to delete messages in the dialogue for all interlocutors. Previously, the remote text disappeared only with the sender, the rest of the dialogue participants could still read it. Now, after the user selects the “Delete Message” option, the “Delete for everyone” will be available. You can erase the selected messages only within 24 hours. On November 27, VKontakte has the opportunity to edit messages.

In December, on Nevsky Prospekt, 30 began to work as a restaurant of Panician cuisine "Shikari". The institution presents dishes from China, Japan, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and Korea. The restaurant’s bar is offered Asian drinks (lassi, coconut water, Vietnamese coffee, Latte match, blue Thai tea), as well as classic and branded cocktails and teas, juices and coffee.

On Thursday, December 14, the final press conference of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin was held. He talked about the prevention of Navalny to elections, self -nomination, explained what he was thinking about criminal cases against Serebrennikov and Oleg Navalny, and also commented on the situation with the economy in the country.

Lawyer Dmitry Dinze on Facebook said that on the morning of December 14, special services detained his father of the accused of preparing a terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro Abrore and Akram Azimov. Ahrala Azimova was taken to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kuntsevsky district of Moscow. Dmitry Dinze, along with Olga Dinze, represent the Azimov brothers in court.

The Moscow District Military Court found guilty under Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Assistance of terrorist activity” by a citizen Kyrgyz, Office of Abdyrasimov. He passed the accused in the case of the recruitment of probable accomplices of Akbarzhon Jalilov, who was considered a suicide bomber who committed a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg on April 3. The verdict of Abdyraimova is reported by the United press service of the vessels of St. Petersburg.

The Leningrad Region authorities told what forestry can be cut for free for the New Year holiday. You can contact the representatives of the sites now. On the website of the Committee on Natural Resources of the Leningrad Region, instructions have been published: you need to choose the nearest forestry and conclude an agreement with it for the harvesting of fir trees. Plots for harvesting trees were allocated in 19 forestries.

Petersburg violinist played the anthem of Zenit on a gala concert in Hamburg The St. Petersburg musician and founder of Dogma Chamber Orchestra Mikhail Gurevich played the anthem of the Zenit football club on a gala concert in Hamburg. Petersburg violinist Mikhail Gurevich performs the anthem of the Zenit football club at a gala concert in Hamburg 🎻 It's just great! pic.twitter.com/utlanspyne - FC Zenit (@zenit_SPB) December 14, 2017

In early December, the Vice Speaker of Zachs Sergey Solovyov proposed riding the Duma street from clubs and bars. Two days later, riot police arrived there. The establishments were checked for drugs, the availability of licenses, compliance with age qualifications and paying taxes.