At the beginning of 2017, St. Petersburg journalist Arseny Vesnin launched the archaeological project “ Oikumene ”. For a year and a half now, he has been taking everyone on expeditions to the Black Sea and Kazakhstan to excavate ancient necropolises and ancient settlements of the Viking Age. Found artifacts are transferred to museums.

The St. Petersburg Union of Scientists wrote an open letter to President Vladimir Putin with a request to release Viktor Kudryavtsev, a scientific employee of TsNIIMASH, who was accused of GOSMENA from the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. It is reported by Kommersant.

Here and below are albums from the archive of Marina Kalashnikova. Photo: Egor Tsvetkov In the 19th century, handwritten albums were popular throughout Europe, including Pushkin writing about them in Eugene Onegin. Girls and young men left memorable notes for each other: popular poems or impromptu poems, which were decorated with dried flowers and drawings.

The St. Petersburg network of bookstores "Bukvoed" will unite with the Moscow "Read Gorod", reports "Fontanka". Denis Kotov, Director General of Bukvoeded, said that we are not talking about absorption, but about integration. According to the publication, the Moscow Network believes that the “book -eater” should sell more books, not souvenir products. Perhaps Moscow shareholders will decide to close 10-12 unprofitable stores.

The residents of the Priozersky district found a small roe with a wound on the leg. The animal itself went to people for help, according to the Veles Center group. Presumably, the roe deer has a fracture of the leg. It formed necrosis, experts say that the injury is very neglected. Later in the comments, representatives of Veles wrote that Kosul had died at night. “The mesh went out to the great regret, did not have time to help, apparently came to people on the last clock,” the group said.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation included in the register of foreign agents the St. Petersburg non -profit organization "Youth Human Rights Group". This was reported on the website of the department. NPO is headed by activist Maxim Ivantsov - a school teacher who opposed the discrimination of LGBT. For 10 years he taught geography and social studies at school No. 216.

The leadership of VKontakte promises to publish the “general statistics of requests” that come from the authorities and concern users data. This was reported by the Russian BBC service. “We plan to make the process more transparent and share the general statistics of requests,” said representatives of the social network. However, they did not specify when the statistics will be available, as well as what kind of information it will contain.

Azat Divaev I am a musician and for a long time organized tea apartments in St. Petersburg. The word "tenant" itself is traditionally connected with the Russian underground - names such as BG, Kinchev and so on. I do not drink alcohol, and the idea of ​​tea came to my mind spontaneously. We hooked on her, tried to spend tea apartment several times. The people liked it. It is a mistake to think that the musicians are people who hipp, bomber, sleep in obscure places and drink.

Petersburg metro in the telegram channel "Metro. Everyday life ” spoke about the stations that changed their name. There are only three of them: “Devyatkino”, “Sennaya Square” and “Novocherkasskaya”. According to the subway, earlier "Devyatkino" was called "Komsomolskaya", "Sennaya Square" - "Square of the World", and "Novocherkasskaya" - "Krasnogvardeisky". The names of the stations were changed in the early 90s.

As a result of the collapse of the automobile bridge, 38 people were killed in Genoa, the Ministry of the Interior said . Officials suggest that the number of victims can grow. It is clarified that among the dead there are two teenagers 12 and 13 years old, as well as an eight -year -old child. According to the Italian television channel Rai News 24, several people are missing.

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the proposal to create a military town in Kronstadt, where all the naval educational institutions of St. Petersburg will be collected. It is reported by Fontanka. According to the publication, the idea of ​​creating such a town appeared back in 2008. Then it was assumed that the center of the town would be the military educational and scientific center of the Navy "Kuznetsov Naval Academy". University buildings in St.

The ITMO graduate student Gennady Korotkevich won the world's programming tournament for Google Code Jam Championship. This was reported in ITMO. The tournament has been held since 2003. This year, more than 60 thousand people took part in it, and only 25 participants reached the final. Early Korotkevich won the first places at the competitions of the Russian Code Cup, Facebook Hacker Cup and Yandex.Adalgorithm. Korotkevich entered ITMO in 2012, now he is 23 years old.

Mail.ru Group, which belongs to VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, appealed to the State Duma, the Supreme and Constitutional Courts and to the Ministry of Justice with a request to amnesty convicts for reposts in social networks. This was reported in the press service of the company.

The British street artist Banksy said that he has nothing to do with the exhibition of his works in the central house of the artist in Moscow. The organizers confirmed this. Banksy published on his Instagram a correspondence with a subscriber who sent a photo with the poster of his exhibition. From the correspondence it follows that Banksy did not know about the exhibition.

The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications sent a positive review to the bill on the abolition of criminal liability for reposts in social networks. About this the deputy head of the department, Alexei Volin, was informed by Rns. The bill was introduced to the State Duma from the Communist Party of the Communist Party Sergey Shargunov and the chairman of the Rodina party Alexei Zhuravlev.