Alexander Beglov took the post of acting governor of St. Petersburg on October 3, 2018. From this moment on, city media and telegram channels are written about him daily, and on street displays they show videos with his participation. In terms of mentioning in the media, Beglov among the mayor is inferior only to Sobyanin. The acting governor avoids communication with opposition publications. But VTsIOM says that half of the Petersburgers support him.

The abolition of the concerts of rappers and music groups (Husky, “Fredson”, IC3PEAK and Elja) was associated with the decision of the organizers themselves. This was reported in the answers of the regional prosecutors to the request of the State Duma of the State Duma of Anatoly of the Electoral and the Head of the Youth Parliament under the chamber Maria Voropaeva. The department also claims that law enforcement agencies did not interfere with concerts.

At night on April 8, near house number 49 on the 2nd Komsomolskaya Street, a pipe broke. At the scene, the human body was found, the head of the press service of the GUP “TEK” Sofya Andreeva told “Paper” . Editions 78.ru and Fontanka wrote that a resident of the house died as a result of an accident. According to them, the boiling water fountain knocked out the windows of one of the apartments on the ground floor of the house and scalded a woman.

The law on disrespect for power approves 39 % of Russians surveyed, and not approve of-53 % of respondents, follows from the results of the Levada Center's hundredth question, which RBC published . According to the survey, 55 % of respondents approved the punishment for the spread of false news, 33 % did not approve. Levada-Center said that 23 % of respondents believe that laws are designed to ensure the reliability of news in the media and the Internet.

The State Unitary Enterprise "TEK St. Petersburg" will pay the family of 2 million rubles of compensation due to the breakthrough of the Petersburger pipe. This was reported by the publication "Outpost North-West." On the night of April 8, a pipe broke out on the 2nd Komsomolskaya Street in the Krasnoselsky district. The boiling water pierced the windows of the apartment on the ground floor and scalded a pensioner, she died on the spot.

The traffic police compiled a list of regions on the number of those who died in an accident in 2018. This was reported on the official website of the department. According to the traffic police, in 2018, the most person died in the Krasnodar Territory. There, as a result of the accident, 1053 people died. The second place was taken by the Moscow region, where 938 people became victims of the accident, the third - the Rostov region with 554 dead. Petersburg became the sixth in the ranking.

The Moscow City Court changed the measure of restraint to the director Kirill Serebrennikov from house arrest for a recognizance not to leave, Interfax reports . A similar decision was made in relation to other defendants in the case of the Seventh Studio - Sofia Apfelbaum and Yuri Itin. Another person involved in the case, producer Alexei Malobrodsky, was already under the subscription about the lower room.

The blogger Stas Davydov in the video on the “This is good” channel announced that he closes the show in the format of viral video reviews. Now the stories about the rollers will be released during streams. As Davydov said, he will stop releasing reviews on the video because this "format is frankly tired." The blogger also notes that his team "has already fed up with this, and many of you watch." Stas Davydov has not yet talks about which videos will be released on the channel.

"Paper" is looking for a news editor in the team. Who we are looking for: we need a competent author who wants to study and is ready to take responsibility. Experience can be small, the main thing is to understand what the work of the newsletter is. What you need to do: write news and other texts in accordance with the formats of the publication, as well as invent the topics of materials and work a little with social networks.

Petersburg local historians from the Ganging association, together with the volunteers, washed the majolica panels in a profitable house on Kamskaya Street. This was reported by the organizers of the action on social networks. Participants laundered 20 panels in two ceremonial rental houses. At the same time, the local historians did not cleanse one majolica so that she reminded "about the layer of dust and paint that was on each." The local historians spent about five hours to work.

The FSB included the "Network" to the list of terrorist organizations, according to the website of the department. Attention to this was drawn by the Mediazon. The FSB acted on the basis of the decision of the Moscow District Military Court of January 17, the decision of which entered into force on March 14, the site said. In total, 30 organizations are included in the list, including Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb countries, the Right Sector unit in Crimea and the Islamic State .

In Dovlatov’s square on Zagorodny Prospekt, local residents installed a commemorative sign with a writer and fox terrier Glasha, offering Dovlatov a faceted glass. Photos with a sign of Petersburgers published on VKontakte. The signature was left on the plate: "A modest initiative of ordinary citizens." One of the authors of the initiative, Music teacher Mikhail Lovov told 78.ru that the locals themselves raised funds on a sign and made it.

On the morning of April 8, rescuers evacuated about 100 people from house No. 17 on the Fontanka River embankment due to fire in the ventilation system, the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies said . Information about the fire entered the Ministry of Emergencies at 11:15, by 12:03 the fire was eliminated. According to the press service, garbage was smoothing in the ventilation shaft. Information about the victims was not received.

On Sunday, April 7, the official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Svetlana Petrenko spoke to reporters and spoke about the investigation of the metro attack, which occurred on April 3, 2017. Petrenko said that 11 suspects who were accused of a terrorist attack were detained in a month.

The police detained a man who reported an impending explosion in the House of Creativity in the village of Kommunar in the Leningrad region. A criminal case was instituted about a deliberately false message about the act of terrorism. After the message was received, the employees of the emergency services completely checked the building. Explosives and explosive devices were not found there. Last week, due to a false message about mining, a police officer was detained .