KGIOP refused the organizers of the Light festival in holding a holiday in the Moscow Victory Park, writes Fontanka. The show will be held only at the St. Petersburg "Petersburg". According to the publication, an initiative group insisted on the cancellation of the festival in the park, mainly consisting of descendants of the blockade. They stated that it was unethical to hold a show there, since there was a crematorium in this place during the Great Patriotic War.

Yandex announced the launch of its car sharing "Yandex.Drive" in St. Petersburg. Registration of drivers is open from October 25, and the service itself will start in December. The Karchering park at the start will include 750 cars Renault Kaptur, Volkswagen Polo, Skoda Rapid and Audi A3. You can register through the Yandex.Drive mobile application. The company clarifies that Yandex.Drive tariffs are calculated taking into account the road situation and demand for cars.

The graduate students of the Mining University was asked to come to a meeting with TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov on a forced manner, Vesna's activists said with reference to the student of the university. In the group of traffic, screenshots from the university graduate student community were published. One of them is a post in a group, which says that a visit to Solovyov’s speech for graduate students is mandatory.

The Lutheran Church of St. Anna in St. Petersburg raised more than half of the funds for installing the Cross Church on the dome, which has not been there for 80 years. At the time of publication, 239 thousand rubles were collected - this is 54 % of the required amount. As the Deacon Annenkirche Evgeny Perekatov told the “paper” , despite this, the cross was already made, and in any case it will be installed by October 27.

The State Duma adopted in the third, final, reading a law that allows deputies of parliament and members of the Federation Council to voluntarily abandon the surcharge to retirement. The law must enter into force on January 1, 2019. To refuse a pension, the parliamentarian will have to write a statement addressed to the Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation.

By the end of 2018, information stands of A1 format will be installed at stops in St. Petersburg. This was reported by the St. Petersburg State Property Committee "Organizer of Transportation". The stands will depict routes that pass through the stop. The transport schedule and the cost of the fare will also be indicated there. In total, they plan to install 1625 stands. Previously, 105 electronic displays were also planned at the stops of St.

How is champagne fundamentally different from ordinary sparkling wine, is it possible to buy a quality drink for 1000 rubles and whether they know in France about the "Soviet champagne"? " Paper " talked about champagne with winemaker Nicholas Lain from Dom Pérignon. The material is informational in nature and is not advertising - Why in many countries of the world, champagne has become a synonym for luxury and the main festive drink?

The State Duma deputies in the first reading voted for the adoption of a bill under which self -employed citizens and individual entrepreneurs who do not hire employees under labor contracts will pay a special tax. For self -employed, providing services to individuals, it is proposed to establish a tax rate of 4 %, for those who provide services of individual entrepreneurs and legal entities - 6 %. The transition to the new tax regime will be voluntary : using the mobile application "My Tax".

In the Leningrad region, zoo defenders save a raccoon dog, which the dogs attacked The zoo defenders of the Veles Wild animal Center, which works in the Leningrad region, try to save the raccoon dog, which the dogs attacked. In the animal, the spine is broken. In the comments, representatives of the center write that with such a fracture there is a little chance of surviving. Now in the center there are four raccoon dogs in the center.

The Kirovsky District Court of St. Petersburg found the guilty chief accountant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Krasnoselsky district Svetlana Buzukina. According to investigators, from July 2013 to September 2017, she used 43.7 million rubles from the personal account of the department. So, Buzukina bought an apartment and an Infinity car for the money of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it turned out during the audit.

A canopy on a stone island. Photo: Yegor Tsvetkov / "Paper" Since 1908, exhibits of the international construction and art exhibition have been on the Stone Island: a reinforced concrete canopy, similar to a bus stop, pavilion and four rectangular blocks. Although all other designs were dismantled after the end of the exhibition, these structures remained on the embankment for some reason.

Members of the Public Supervisory Commission (PMC) of St. Petersburg prepared a report on how the FSB officers torture detainees and witnesses. It is based on complaints of violence and recorded damage. In all of the above cases, applications for torture were rejected by the court or the prosecutor's office. The report is supplemented by the material of “Team 29” with video executions. The report tells about six cases when the FSB officers, according to the PMC, used torture.

"I'm looking for people with a feeling of change." Why is the German Blog about the life of Russians in Berlin and for what loves the inhabitants of Moscow and St. Petersburg Beatrice Grundheber lives in Berlin and has been leading a blog about Russian Berlinograd for four years. She tells the stories of city musicians, artists, photographers or bars. It can be both recent emigrants and Russians who grew up in Germany.

The LGBT-Kinofilia "Bok O Bok" transferred the opening to 19:00 to Thursday, October 25. The planned beginning of the festival on Wednesday was ripped off by the State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov. This was reported to the "paper" by the organizers. At the opening, the audience will show two films at once: “Fantastic Woman”, which they should have shown the day earlier, and “With Love, Simon”.

"Snow.ru" summed up the results of its annual prize "What is where there is in St. Petersburg." She was awarded the best institutions of the city, their employees and dishes. In the category “Best New Restaurant”, Birch won, which earned at the end of December 2017 on Kirochny Street. The “Best New Bar” was the “gloomy”, which this year has already opened the second institution in the city.