Almost half of the Levada Center surveyed believe that in 2020, corruption scandals, resignations in the government and new mass protests are possible in Russia . This is written by Vedomosti with reference to the results of the survey. According to Vedomosti, loud corruption scandals and resignations of officials called 66 % of respondents possible (this is a maximum of 2013), mass protests - 45 % (growth by 1 percentage point for the last year and 10 points in two years).

At the end of December 2019, the St. Petersburg artist Lislub created a “Monument to anyone” - she wrote with golden letters on an empty pedestal on the Fontanka Embankment “Nobody I”. The communal workers painted over the work, but the girl restored it. For the second time, the artist wrote on the pedestal “Nobody II”, and under the photograph on Instagram stated that “The game began”.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the police who detained the correspondent of Medusa Ivan Golunov. The journalist himself told about this on Facebook, attaching a photo with a notification to the post. The case is excited under the article on exceeding official powers with the cause of grave consequences.

In the village of Kurkiyki in Karelia there is an estate Lars Sonya - the only surviving construction of the famous Finnish architect in Russia. In the Soviet years, there was a kindergarten and a hostel for workers, in the early 1990s, the dilapidated building was bought by Lidia Ivanova Petersburger. Together with her husband, she restored the house and opened a museum in it. Now at the estate they conduct excursions and hand over the rooms to tourists.

On January 13, Los Angeles announced the Oscar-2020 Prize. The results are published on the official Yetuub-channel of the award. For the title of the best film this year, such paintings as “Ford via Ferrari”, “Irishman”, “Rabbit Jojo”, “Little Women”, “Marriage History”, “1917”, “Once in Hollywood” and “Parasites” will compete.

In the USA, in Detroit, film director Konstantin Bromberg, who was 80 years old, died. This was announced on Facebook by director Mikhail Idov. On the website of the chapel Hebrew Memorial Chapel in the suburbs of Chicago also published a necrologist Bromberg. According to him, the director died on January 10. Two days ago, director Konstantin Bromberg, director of the Soviet megahits "sorcerers" and "... ... Gepostet Von Michael Idov Am Sonntag, 12.

The St. Petersburg skater Andrei Mozalev received second place in the men's single skating at the winter youth Olympic Games in Switzerland. According to TASS, Mozalev scored 237.94 points in total for a short and arbitrary program. The gold medal went to the Japanese to Yume Kagiam (239,17), Russian Daniil Samsonov (215.21) became a bronze medalist.

The deputy head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Igor Krasnov said in an interview with Kommersant that Russian journalists Orhan Dzhemal, Alexander Rastorguev and Kirill Radchenko were killed in the Central African Republic for the purpose of robbery.

On the Avenue of the Unconquered, in the area of ​​house No. 47, specialists are conducting restoration work on the water pipe, which broke through January 12. Due to the communal accident on the avenue there was a flood , and the water reached the level of the doors of the machines. As can be seen in the published photographs from the scene, they dug a large hole leading to the pipe to replace it. Vodokanal reported that he stopped the streams of water by 22:00.

The Petersburg Museum "Neva Zastava" again organizes free excursions for the townspeople, repeating the routes of the inhabitants of the besieged Leningrad. This was reported in social networks of the site. In 2020, new directions will be added to the history of the author of anti -fascist playing cards of Vasily Vlasov and technologist Alexei Panchenko. For example, participants will be offered to repeat the path of the Bolshevik working plant Dmitry Bogdanov and the poetess Olga Bergholz.

On Sunday, January 12, 2020, several St. Petersburg media , citing a meteorologist of the Phobos Center, Mikhail Leus and wrote that a new daily record of the temperature maximum may be set in the city. However, this did not happen, Les himself said on his page on Monday. According to the meteorologist, this year on January 12, the air temperature reached +4.7 degrees. And the daily record belongs to January 12, 2009, then the temperature was +5.1 degrees.

On the Kremlin’s website at the end of December 2019, an album was published on the 20th anniversary of Vladimir Putin in power. On January 13, the archive was replenished with new personnel, now photographs taken before 2009 are available there. In the pictures, Putin meets with politicians, hugs a school teacher, fish, poses against the background of Egyptian pyramids and sculpts a pot of clay. New photos will be added to the album for several weeks.

In the area of ​​the Square of the uprising from the end of summer, you can meet a mini-pig Dulsinei-in a few months she became a local celebrity. Dozens of people were photographed with her, including rapper Oximiron, and activists of the Central District shot a video about Dus and her mistress Julia Suprun. “Paper” talked with Julia about why she called a mini-page in honor of Picasso’s picture, is it difficult to take care of such a pet and how Dulsinea gets along with two cats.

Alexander Maltsev. Photo: Ivan Kleimenov Petersburger Alexander Maltsev is the most titled world synchronist and the first man from Russia, who began to professionally engage in this sport. He came to synchronized swimming at the age of seven. Alexander did not abandon the workouts either from the sport all his peers-boys, nor when he collided with ridicule colleagues-synchronists. The athlete often changed the coaches, and he did not allow him to large tournaments - because he is a man.

Unknown persons painted black tears on a high -profile in the form of a mermaid’s head, which is located on the house of Nikolaev on 25 Sadova Street, this was reported in the group “Central District for a comfortable habitat”. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the police were checking and establishing the circumstances of the incident.