Residents of the historical house No. 19 on a large ranging street complain of cracks that arose in the apartments and on the facade of the building. In their opinion, this is due to the construction of an elite house in a neighboring site, writes Fontanka. In addition, residents report distorted doors and windows, as well as crumbling plaster. The construction site of the new building adjoins their house. Similar problems are experienced by residents of another neighboring historical house No.

The Veeam Software International IT company, founded in St. Petersburg, sold to the American venture foundation INSIight Venture Partners for a record $ 5 billion. About this writes "RBC". The companies concluded the final agreement on January 9, and plan to close the transaction in the first quarter of 2020. According to William Largent, General Director of Veeam, this will give the project great opportunities for growth in the US market.

The spouses of Dinara Irsaliev and Anton Vasiliev have been looking for a raccoon Yokki for almost two weeks, who has lost in the Scandinavia park in the Vyborg district of the Leningrad region. During the search, they live in a tent in the park. Petersburgers rested in the park at the end of 2019, the raccoon escaped from the cottage on the morning of December 31.

In Peterhof, near house number 7 on Chebyshevskaya Street, a rally was held against the construction of objects for the processing and sorting of garbage. It is reported by the movement "Beautiful Petersburg". The improvement committee previously announced the start of public discussion of the draft territorial scheme of waste management.

Russian Railways will spend about 600 billion rubles on the development of the railway unit of St. Petersburg. It is assumed that the company will create a new type of public transport in the city. According to Kommersant, Russian Railways completed work on the concepts of a new railway junction, the main provisions of which were the modernization of the freight and passenger traffic.

Iran’s armed forces admitted that they shot down the passenger aircraft of the International Airlines of Ukraine on the morning of January 8. The blow occurred as a result of a “human error”, stated in a message from the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, widespread on January 11 by the ISNA agency. The statement says that the plane was in the immediate vicinity of one of the important military facilities of Iran, in the form and height of the flight allegedly resembled an enemy object.

The Mayakovsky library allowed its visitors to take books to all owners of the readership. For the first time, registration in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region will not be required. The library believes that this will help, in particular, to nonresident students who were forced to ask to take a book from classmates with a residence permit in St. Petersburg. Moreover, the changes will affect only Russian citizens.

Six-year-old Petersburger Leon Sokol took part in the shooting of advertising Vesna-summer 2020 from Gucci. This was reported on Instagram by his agency Macaronis Kids, publishing the first photo of the campaign. Attention to this was drawn by the publication "Snow..ru". Together with Leon, a six -year -old girl from Kaliningrad starred in advertising. Macaronis Kids reported that they became the first children from Russia to participate in Gucci advertising.

Russian schools will have the opportunity to assess the “counted” in some subjects in the certificates of students. This was reported to the "Russian newspaper" by the Minister of Education Olga Vasilieva. According to Vasilyeva, the Ministry is already developing a new procedure for issuing certificates about the main general and secondary general education. It will allow the assessment of “counted” on visual arts, music and physical education.