At the end of 2018, Instagram appeared on Instagram with the works of 81-year-old St. Petersburg artist Yulia Aleshicheva. There they lay out embroidery on which she depicts cats and world -famous paintings. Once she created embroidery with portraits of the participants of the Spice Girls group. Attention to the account was drawn by Wonderzine. The grandson of Julia Aleshicheva Yang Gorkunov created an account @ girl_from_1938 for her work at the end of 2018.

Astrophysics showed the first black hole picture in history Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project showed the first photograph of the black hole in history, RIA Novosti reports . A picture of a black hole located in the center of the Messier 87 galaxy was demonstrated during a press conference at the National Scientific Fund in Brussels.

The sculpture of the Russian museum did not try to steal, the press service of the Museum "Paper" said. Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Guard Valery Gribakin announced an attempt to steal a sculpture at the Mikhailovsky castle. According to the Russian Museum, on the morning of April 10, two men went down the rope from the three -part bridge at the entrance to the front court of the Mikhailovsky castle.

Prosecutorial inspections recorded violations in the FSIN institutions and revealed massive cases of illegal use of physical strength and special means for prisoners in each second subject of Russia . This was told by the prosecutor general of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika, speaking with a report on the Federation Council, Interfax reports . The Seagull said that the Prosecutor General’s Office began a large -scale audit after “egregious cases” of cruelty in 2018.

Acting Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he intends to introduce a daily fee for foreign tourists in St. Petersburg. This was reported by Vedomosti. Foreigners will have to pay 100 rubles a day during stay in St. Petersburg. The money received will be directed to the repair of facades of historical houses.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced the activist of the Lenin Communist Union of Youth Victoria Severin by seven days of administrative arrest for the fact that she and two young people brought boxes with garbage to the office of United Russia. This is stated in the telegram channel of the press service of St. Petersburg courts.

After the snow melted, mountains of garbage and dirt remained on the streets and in the rivers of St. Petersburg. The townspeople scold people who were shooting during the winter, and complain about the work of services who cannot quickly clean the city. In the first week alone, Petersburgers sent more than five thousand complaints about poor cleaning. "Paper" tells how the city is drowning in garbage and how Petersburgers are fighting this.

The shopping centers Mega Parnas and Mega Dybenko were evacuated in St. Petersburg In St. Petersburg on the evening of April 10, the mega Parnas and Mega Dybenko shopping centers were evacuated. This is reported by eyewitnesses on social networks. As users write, people from buildings began to be withdrawn at about 19:00. Buyers were informed that evacuation is carried out for technical reasons. According to Fontanka, the evacuation could begin due to a report of the mining of buildings.

"Standing Square": Petersburg drivers complain about traffic jams and discuss Putin On the evening of April 10, strong traffic jams formed in St. Petersburg, which Yandex estimates at 7-8 points. Drivers are in the city center, as well as in the area of ​​the Frunzenskaya and Moscow Gate metro station. “Paper” gathered “conversations” of St. Petersburg drivers from the Yandex mobile application, where they discussed traffic jams on the roads of Vladimir Putin.

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested for two months the deputy head of the tax inspectorate No. 18 of Vasily Makar under the article on receiving a bribe (part 5 of article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This was reported by the United press service of the city courts. Vasily Makar was charged with receiving a bribe by a group of persons with elements of extortion (subparagraphs “A” and “B”). He asked to choose a house arrest.

The Council of House No. 24 on Kirochny Street plans to open the Museum of the profitable house of Juliana Buck. About this writes "Snow.ru" with reference to the head of the council Marina Zhukova. Zhukova says that activists have already begun work on the museum. According to her, the Council is already developing the concept of the museum and has already found a suitable room and part of the exhibits.

Nine children with acute intestinal infection were hospitalized from kindergarten No. 53 of the Krasnogvardeisky district. This was reported by the Office of Rospotrebnadzor in the city. According to the agency, 21 children fell ill in total, nine of them were sent to a medical institution. “Clinically, diseases proceed in the form of gastroenteritis, enterocolites,” writes Rospotrebnadzor.

The Petrograd District Court refused to extend the house arrest to the vice-rector for administrative work of the St. Petersburg State Chemical and Farmets University Sergei Khozin. This was reported by the United press service of the city courts. In February, a block of ice fell from the roof of one of the buildings of the university, as a result of which one student died , the second received severe injuries.

In St. Petersburg on August 10 and 11, the Zavtra music festival will be held, dedicated to the problems of ecology and gender equality. This was reported on social networks and on the website of the festival. According to the organizers, ZAZ, Ivan Dorn, Mumiy Troll and Therr Maitz will perform at the event at Sevkabel Porto. Tickets can be bought at the festival website. It will also be held in Moscow on August 10, 2019.

There was a glitch in the Sberbank Online service. Users complain that they can't log in or transfer money On the morning of April 10, a failure was recorded in the Sberbank Online service. According to the Downdetector service , more than 1,000 reports of the problem were received after approximately 11:00. The failure was also confirmed by Sberbank. The problem will be resolved soon. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.