The Ministry of Foreign Affairs began work on a bill, which will allow foreigners to visit the most popular tourist cities of Russia by electronic visas. The draft document is published on the portal of legal information. Now the entry on an electronic visa for foreign tourists is possible to Vladivostok and the Far Eastern Federal District, the Kaliningrad Region, as well as to St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, where this regime began to operate on October 1.

The property control committee held a raid against illegal trade near the St. Petersburg metro stations. According to its results, the committee officers revealed violations in 27 kiosks who sold coffee, although they should trade in newspapers. According to Fontanka, the stalls checked at 54 metro stations.

On Sennaya Square, in front of the entrance to the station "Spasskaya" metro station, single pickets are held in support of the defendants in the case of the network. The picketers are with posters on which the names of the defendants and information about the torture applied to them are indicated. Among the pickets are Nikolai Boyarshinov, the father of one of the defendants Julia Boyarshinov. According to Kommersant, about 50 people gathered around the picketers.

The Ministry of Culture revealed violations in the work of the Committee on Urban Planning and Protection of Monuments following an unscheduled audit. The committee claims that the identified violations were not included in their competence. The Ministry of Culture checked compliance by the Committee of Legislation in the field of protection of monuments of federal significance.

On the morning of October 19, a car sharing car and a minibus collided near the house 48 on Engels Avenue. Five people were injured, reports the propaganda department of the traffic police in St. Petersburg. Of the photographs published by eyewitnesses in the group "DTP and PE" it follows that the car sharing car "Delimon" was injured in the collision. According to the traffic police, the car drove into the oncoming lane and crashed into a minibus standing at a stop.

Smolny’s employees doused with gasoline were safe, they were not going to set fire to them. This conclusion was reached by the Investigative Committee following the investigation of the conflict in July, the Fontanka writes . In early July, unknown men attacked employees of the Smolny Property Relations Committee. The committee said that they were doused with gasoline and threatened with arson.

The Royal Park concert venue in Kaliningrad canceled the performance of the St. Petersburg Little Big group after complaints of local activists. This was written by the newspaper "New Kaliningrad". The director of Royal Production, owning the concert venue, sent a letter to Vagonka.pro to the concert organizers, in which he notified them of the termination of the contract.

In the Primorsky district, the roof of the parking, which was built for the Shuvalovsky residential complex, partially collapsed. This was reported by Fontanka with reference to the press service of the city department of the Ministry of Emergencies. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, the collapse occurred during the work of pouring concrete of the roof of the org: the reinforcing mesh collapsed. The area of ​​damage was 200 square meters. m.

The Advita charity foundation was not won by the Presidential Grant, which is why the palliative assistance program to people with cancer and other deadly diseases from December 1 will be left without financing. This was announced by the head of the program Ekaterina Ovsyannikova. According to Ovsyannikova, a program for helping patients with incurable oncological diseases has been operating since 2017 and has helped more than a hundred families annually.