Since October 1, in St. Petersburg, the Leningrad Region, the Far East and the Kaliningrad Region, the electronic visa mode began to operate , which allows you to freely draw up a document through the Internet to citizens of 53 foreign countries. Electronic visas are available for citizens of Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Denmark, China, Cyprus, DPRK, Serbia, Turkey and others. The full list can be found here .

On the morning of October 1, a dam was closed in St. Petersburg due to the threat of flooding and forecasts of stormy wind. This was reported by the Directorate of the Complex of Protective Structures of the City. The dams were finally closed at 7:12. Preparations for this began at night, having coordinated actions with the Ministry of Emergencies, writes Fontanka.

By 14:00 in St. Petersburg, at least three trees, a road sign, a traffic light fell, and a metal sheet flew off the roof and the trolleybus wires broke off. Eyewitnesses report this. So, even before noon, the village of Lensovetovsky fell on the car, which was due to which the cork gathered. The trees also fell on the Moscow highway and in one of the squares of a pine boron. In the Primorsky district, presumably, trolleybus wires broke off due to the wind.

The Japanese game designer and game developer Hideo Kojima will answer questions from VKontakte users. The video will be published on October 7th. This was reported by the press service of the social network. Kodzima will come to Russia at the Moscow exhibition “Gamemir 2019”, which will be held from October 3 to 6 at the Crocus Expo exhibition center. At this time, he will visit the VKontakte section and answer user questions.

In the Liteiny District, where most mandates were received by representatives of Yabloko, decided to take pictures of Beglov and Putin from the walls. This was reported in the party itself. Instead of photographs of politicians in the building of the municipality, a portrait of Andrei Sakharov, who was the leader of the human rights movement in the USSR , will be placed in the “apple”. The first decision in the St.

The Frunzensky District Court of St. Petersburg registered the case against seven people accused of selling drugs. According to the prosecutor's office, a former employee of the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN, was abolished in 2016) is accused of leading the process of sales. According to investigators, the group was sold methadone: they allegedly received orders by phone, then distributed the drug on bookmarks.

Rescuers went 18 times a day to eliminate the consequences of the storm in St. Petersburg. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies. At the same time, no information was received in the department. Earlier, the Ministry of Emergencies reported the storm impending on St. Petersburg. Gusts of wind in places reached 24 m/s. In the afternoon, trees, road signs and traffic lights fell in the city, and a hail passed in places.

The Wizzair European low -cost airline launched daily direct flights from the airports of St. Petersburg and Moscow to the Luton Airport in London. This was reported by the press service of the carrier. As follows from the data from the Wizzair website, the first flights will begin on Tuesday, October 2 - a ticket for it is sold for 59 euros, that is, about 4,200 rubles. Already on Saturday, October 5, a ticket can be bought for 22 euros, that is, for a little more than 1,500 rubles.

On the anniversary of the 20th anniversary, since the commissioning of the Russian federal troops into Chechnya, the Department of Special Projects of the publication “Such Affairs” was released by Podkast with the memoirs of participants in the Second Chechen campaign. This is the continuation of the project "this has never happened." The memories of people were collected by the street artist Glory of the PTRK, together with the St. Petersburg group of SBPH during work on the clip “1999”.

On the afternoon of October 1, an unknown man attacked an employee of the central apparatus of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation at the department of the department in the center of Moscow . The man died of injuries. This was reported by the UK. The attacker was detained, but his name was not officially revealed. According to the source of Interfax, this is a 39-year-old resident of St.

On the morning of October 1, 7-point traffic jams formed on the streets in St. Petersburg. They are associated with poor weather and accidents on the roads. This follows from the Yandex.Maps service. Traffic jams were formed on Stacken Avenue, Cuban Street, at the metro station “Alexander Nevsky Square” and “Novocherkasskaya”, as well as on Sredneokhtinsky Prospekt, Uralskaya Street and other sections of the city.

From October 1, tourists from 53 countries can enter St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region on a free electronic visa. Applications on the first day were submitted by more than 3 thousand people. The authorities expect that the innovation will significantly increase the tourist flow and replenish the budget. In addition, it can lead to the appearance of new directions from Pulkov. "Paper" tells how the electronic visa works in St.

On Tuesday, October 1, the Russian media, including Echo of Moscow , Mediazona , New Gazeta , Rain , such deeds , Snob , MBH Media , 7 × 7 , Pskov province and moss , simultaneously published an open letter from the Pskov journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva, which is accused of justification of terrorism. Prokopieva faces up to seven years in prison or a fine of up to 1 million rubles from the author’s column on the Radio “Echo of Moscow in Pskov”.

Photo: Victor Yuliev Nick Darlison ‌pereh ‌v‌ ‌petersburg‌ ‌ ‌ ‌2018 ‌ year. ‌ In the UK, he learned to physics, but then became a teacher of English. In St. Petersburg, he works in a language school, and in his free time he monitors the matches of the Nottingham Forest football team and skiing in the Leningrad region. The Briton tells why he fell in love with local weather, why the Russians seem friendly to him and how Petersburg reminds him of his hometown.

Dud interviewed economist Sergei Guriev - about Russian economy in simple language An interview with the former head of the Russian Economic School and the chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Sergei Guriev was published on the Vedud show. Yuri Dud asked Guriev about the Russian economy “on the fingers”, the US public debt, pension reform, Putin, universities, and why the economist left Russia because of the “case of Yukos experts”.