Petersburg took third place among the regions of Russia in the number of serious crimes
Petersburg entered the top ten regions, in which the most crimes were committed for 2017, follows from the data on the website of the portal of legal statistics of the Prosecutor General. The leaders of the list were Moscow and the Moscow Region (140 134 and 84 307 crimes, respectively), as well as the Chelyabinsk region (68,213 crimes). In St. Petersburg, from January to December 2017, 52,138 crimes were registered.