In St. Petersburg, the Total Dictation wrote about 2 % of the participants on “excellent”. This was announced by the chairman of the expert commission in the city of Svetlana Deviyko-Dolzhanskaya. The dictation in Peteburg was written by more than 10 thousand people. This year, the writer Guzel Yakhina became the author of the text. In 2017, almost 10 % of the participants wrote on the Five. In 2016 - 1 %.

The Smolninsky District Court fined the owner of the Khizhina Raccoon contact zoo, where animals bit visitors a year ago. Enotov will be sent to state zoos, the Committee for Nature Management said. In July 2017, officials seized seven raccoons from the contact zoo after visitors' complaints. The zoo checked the Committee on Nature Management, Veterinary Office and the Prosecutor's Office.

The Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service for St. Petersburg called the unreliable information about the violent death of Valery Pshenichny in jail. The material about wheat came out in the Novaya Gazeta, the text spoke of possible torture, rape and murder of the arrested in jail. The Federal Penitentiary Service said that the media used false information from unverified sources. The New Gazeta referred to the conclusion of forensic experts.

In St. Petersburg, on the twentieth of April, cooling is expected. This was announced on Facebook by the main city weather forecaster Alexander Kolesov. According to Kolesov, in the coming days the temperature will drop to 4 degrees, which is considered the norm for April. The current warm weather, according to Kolesov, is abnormal for this month. On the afternoon of April 18, according to Yandex, up to 11 degrees of heat and light rain are expected in St. Petersburg.

The founder of Telegram Pavel Durov on his page on VKontakte announced the start of payments of bitcoin grants to the administrators of the proxy and VPN services. According to Durov, grants will be paid "within the framework of" digital resistance " - decentralized movement in defense of digital freedoms and progress." The creator of the messenger added that he intends to sacrifice millions of dollars from personal funds for these purposes.

Director Andrei Zvyagintsev will be part of the jury of the 71st Cannes Film Festival. This was announced on the air of the EUROPE 1 radio station by the Director General of the festival Thierry Fremo. “I can confirm that Andrei Zvyagintsev will be in the jury. He is now going on intense in English, ”Fremo said. The Cannes Film Festival in 2018 will be held from May 8 to 19. The chairman of the jury will be actress Kate Blanchett.

Employee of the special services reads someone else's love message: Hioshi installed on the sink embankment an art object about Telegram blocking The St. Petersburg street artist Hioshi installed a mini-sculpture of clay on the embankment of the Moika River due to the locking of Telegram.

Representatives of the Public Supervisory Commission Jan Teplitskaya and Ekaterina Kosarevskaya and lawyer Vitaly Cherkasova, who defends the defendant of the “Anti -Fascist affairs” Viktor Filinkov, is haunted by the crew with the microphones of the NTV television channel. A man with a camera and a woman with a microphone approached Kosarevskaya on April 14, when she left the Gaaz prison hospital.

The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, in his telegram channel, laid out a sticker with a dog in a black hood impended over his eyes. It included 12 stickers. Previously, Durov published an image with a mascot, which became a symbol of “digital resistance”. Durov explained that “digital resistance” is a “decentralized movement in defense of digital freedoms and progress”. In addition, VKontakte added a gift with a dog in a hood. Each user can hand up up to three such gifts for free.

Serbian engineer Dragan Muscovich moved to Russia from Belgrade and lived in Moscow for more than 20 years. After he was offered a job at Lakhta Center, he moved to Petersburg, which from the first visit reminded him of Paris. Now Moskovlevich is going to “become a Petersburger” and stay here until retirement. In partnerships with Lakhta Center , Serb tells how, after the first winter, in Russia he began to wear a headdress, why doesn’t understand how to drink vodka in one gulp, and why the St.

The Roskomnadzor website has not been not available for users on April 17. Periodically, he resumes the work, but it can be displayed incorrectly. The agency told RBC, which recorded at night and on the morning of April 17 two DDOS attacks on its official resources, but everything works properly. However, at 11:05 the main page of the site did not load, after it continued to work with interruptions.

The authors of the largest Telegram channels complained about copies in the TAMTAM messenger, owned by Mail.ru Group. This was written by the newspaper Vedomosti, the full version of the article is available by subscription. Representatives of the Nygar, Stalingulag, Tuskulag, Tablet, as well as several media, including Medusa and RBC, spoke about the clones in Tamtam. Tamtam said that the service was not involved in the creation of fake accounts.

In the bars on Red October on April 27, we will hold a festival about why science is a real rock and roll. After all, it is scientists who created psychostimulants and study violence, and engineers design materials from the future and launch rockets into space. Lecturers will tell you whether it will be possible to grow potatoes on Mars how nuclear warheads fly and what parts of the body can be replaced by artificial materials today.

Petersburg photographer Mikhail Lebedev published on Facebook a photo project about visitors to the glass of Bar Baron in Kolomna. Mikhail Lebedev, from the description of the project: Mikhail Lebedev took pictures of the visitors to the glass and recorded their stories for several years. Mikhail Lebedev , from the description of the project: - Kolya. He has always been to me and remains Uncle Kolya. Grandfather, who always behaves like a child, loves to harass incoherent words.

On the evening of April 16, Roskomnadzor began en masse entering the IP addresses of Google and Amazon into the register of prohibited sites in connection with the blocking of Telegram. By 1 pm on April 17, millions of IP addresses were unavailable. Because of this, company websites and services, including those that use Amazon servers, operate intermittently.