More than 20 initiative groups of residents of St. Petersburg, protecting the green territories of the city, united in the "green coalition of St. Petersburg". The first meeting of the association will be held on December 21.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested the senior investigator of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Moscow District Igor Levchenko, who is suspected of receiving a bribe of 500 thousand euros. Levchenko was detained on December 15, the case was brought up for part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“receiving a bribe on an especially large scale”).

The Smolninsky District Court for a month arrested three people detained by the FSB on December 14 in the Central and Kirovsky districts. The case file refers to their connection with the previously detained Evgeny Efimov and Anton Kobz, who allegedly participated in preparations for the terrorist attack in the Kazan Cathedral.

The International Olympic Committee has developed the requirements for the equipment of Russian athletes at the Winter Olympic Games-2018. The R-Sport writes about the content of the document. The coat of arms of Russia on equipment must be replaced with Olympic rings, and the name of the country with the Olympic athlete from Russia (Olympic Athlete from Russia). The word Russia cannot be highlighted in a larger font.

VKontakte users drew attention to the fact that in the regional communities of social networks, entries with the hashtag #Putinkrut began to appear. Pictures with quotes of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the logo of the movement “Young Guard of United Russia” were attached to the posts. TJ writes about this. Users noticed that some posts were published from accounts that were inactive for a long time. On some of them they found records indicating that the owners of accounts died.

The US Central Intelligence Department transferred information to Russia that helped to detain suspects in preparing a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg. This was reported by the press service of the President of the Russian Federation. Vladimir Putin thanked US President Donald Trump in a telephone conversation.

In the courtyard of house number 61 on Budapest Street, unknown people tore the garland from the Christmas tree and tumbled down a tree. A local resident posted a video from the surveillance camera in the group "DTP and PE". In two hours, more than 400 comments were gained under the post. One of the users wrote that the author of the post himself set the Christmas tree, and the children living in the area decorated it.

On Friday, December 15, the FSB announced the prevention of terrorist attacks in the Kazan Cathedral and crowded places in St. Petersburg, which were supposed to occur over the weekend. Department officials detained seven people who were allegedly members of an Islamic State cell. Five of them were arrested by December 17.

St. Petersburg residents with bitcoins and litecoins tell what they will do with the cryptocurrency that has risen in price hundreds of times paperpaper.ru “Paper” publishes four anonymous stories of owners of bitcoins and litecoins who bought them on the exchange or received them as salaries

In the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg on December 17, 1837, a fire occurred, which lasted 30 hours and destroyed most of the interiors of the residence of Emperor Nicholas I. On the day of the 180th anniversary of the fire, the newspaper Side restored the fire chronology. The imperial family was at the Bolshoi Theater when the fire began, but Nicholas I quickly arrived at his residence and ordered to protect the Hermitage from the fire.