Pavel Durov forbade his lawyers to participate in the lawsuit of Roskomnadzor against Telegram The head of the Agora human rights group Pavel Chikov said that Pavel Durov forbade his lawyers to participate in the trial in the lawsuit of Roskomnadzor against Telegram. According to Chikov, Durov does not want to "legitimize the frank farce with his presence." The lawsuit of Roskomnadzor will begin to be considered on April 13.

The film by Kirill Serebrennikov about the life of Viktor Tsoi “Summer” was included in the main competitive program of the Cannes Film Festival. The plot of the picture is based on a little -known history of relations Mike Naumenko, his wife Natalia and Victor Tsoi. It unfolds in the summer of 1981 in Leningrad, when Victor writes his first album, and Mike collects the Zoo group. The role of Tsoi will be played by Korean actor Theo Yu, Naumenko will play Roma Beast.

Ginza Project opened on a garden restaurant where they eat with his hands The Ginza Project Holding opened in St. Petersburg the restaurant "Eat our hands". The institution is located on Sadovaya Street, 41. The restaurant does not serve cutlery, all dishes are eaten with their hands. Visitors are given disposable gloves and apron. In the menu - grill, ribs, shrimp in batter, a set of seafood. The set includes crab, shrimp, mussels, potatoes and corn.

Video bloggers from the Troyban Show YouTube channel conducted an experiment during which they introduced themselves as Ukrainians and offered St. Petersburg residents a hug. During the experiment, not a single person came into conflict with bloggers. People either passed by or hugged the authors of the video. According to the bloggers themselves, about 80% of the people who paid attention to them came up to hug.

The yellow-red Nevsky Prospekt before sunset. In St. Petersburg - Spring In St. Petersburg, warm weather has been installed, for several days in a row in the city Solny. Ice melted in the rivers and channels, and in the botanical garden, primroses and crocuses blossomed . See what Nevsky Prospekt looks like in a pre -order spring light. Photo: Valentin Egorshin

The State Duma in the third reading adopted a bill that allows you to block sites where there is information that defeated the honor, dignity or business reputation of a citizen or legal entity. This was reported by the Moscow Agency. According to the document, the bailiffs will make a decision on the blocking, if the person who has posted on the network defaming information and received the executive document did not delete the information independently within the allotted time.

Petersburgers stood in large traffic jams at the Ice Palace due to the arrival of "specially protected persons" On the evening of April 11, drivers complained about traffic jams and a large number of police officers on the streets adjacent to the “Ice Palace”. On Kollontai Street, Klochkov Lane and Russian Prospekt as of 20:35, the speed of movement did not exceed 5-7 km/h. In the propaganda department of the traffic police in St.

“The boss gave me permission not to come. Thank you, Medvedev": St. Petersburg residents stand in traffic jams and discuss the arrival of the Prime Minister On April 12, several large traffic jams formed in the center of St. Petersburg. Some roads were blocked, and the GPS began to malfunction. Drivers attribute this to the visit of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who is holding a meeting of the commission on import substitution in St. Petersburg today.

The Russian short film “Calendar” was in the program of the Cannes Film Festival. The film was shot in St. Petersburg at the studio of the Word Order of the bookstore. Director Igor Poplaukhin shot the picture in the fall of 2017. This is the first film shot at the Word Order studio. The main role was played by the St. Petersburg actress Irina Salikova. Shots from the movie "Calendar" The Calendar was in the Cinéfondation program, which contains short films.

Roskomnadzor asked the Tagansky District Court to immediately block Telegram if the department’s claim to the messenger would be satisfied. The request was voiced at the preparatory meeting on April 12, Interfax reports . The consideration of the claim is essentially scheduled for April 13th. If on this day the court satisfies the lawsuit and decides on the immediate blocking of Telegram, the messenger will be able to appeal.

The bridge from the Novokrestovskaya metro station to the St. Petersburg stadium will be opened on May 13. This was reported in the apparatus of the vice-governor Igor Albin. The work will be finished by April 29, after which the bridge will be tested. For pedestrians it will be opened on May 13, when Zenit will play with the SKA (Khabarovsk) team. "Novokrestovskaya" is the Green Line metro station under construction.

The “Heat network of St. Petersburg” restarted the service, with which you can find out about the shutdown of hot water in the summer of 2018. This was reported in the press service of the company. To use the service, you need to go to the site and indicate your street and house number. Registration is not required. The site has information about 10 thousand buildings that are in the Teploset service area. In 2018, repair work will last from May 16 to August 7.

In Kuznechny Lane, where they are going to build a new building of the Dostoevsky Museum, single pickets were held against the development of squares in the city center. Activists stood with the posters “Leave a piece of nature” and “Museum to me a friend, but Petersburg Dostoevsky is more expensive”. Previously, similar pickets passed with Smolny. At the site of the Green Zone in Kuznechny Lane, they plan to build a new building for the Dostoevsky Museum.

Which police department did St. Petersburg residents “couldn’t settle in for a long time,” where they respond to “telegrams with reluctance,” which police station is praised for its comfortable benches in the bullpen, and why do visitors to one of the departments recommend choosing a third cell? “Paper” collected reviews of city police stations from Google and Foursquare.

The St. Petersburg Ornithologist Oleg Kenunen created an application that, using neural networks, recognizes birds by their singing. So far, there are 20 votes in the database: among them, for example, a nightingale, a thrush and a finch. How does the neural network distinguish a tit from a raven, after what improvements to “Shazam for Birds” can become available to everyone and what is working with bird voices similar to learning a foreign language?