In St. Petersburg, winter is still more similar in spring: there is no snow and ice, the temperature does not drop below zero. January 16 became the warmest in the history of meteorological observations. Nature reacts to the anomalies accordingly: the buds swell on the trees, the verba blooms, the pans, primrose and margaritians bloom. "Paper" collected pictures of Petersburgers photographing the spring city in mid -January.

The Corruption Foundation demanded that Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin explain how his wife Vladlena Mishustin earned 790 million rubles in nine years. The post about this appeared on the website of Alexei Navalny . As follows from the declarations of a policy on the website of the Federal Tax Service, from 2010 to 2018, his income amounted to about 20-30 million rubles annually, and his wife's income was about 50-150 million.

Russian President Vladimir Putin in the evening of January 15 signed a decree on the creation of a working group that will prepare proposals on amendments to the Constitution. This was reported by the Kremlin website. The order comes into force from the day of signing. The group included 75 people. Petersburg in it is represented by the director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky and the dean of the legal faculty of St.

The Russian football Premier League will be expanded from 16 to 18 clubs. The decision was made after the vote of club representatives, reports Sports.ru with reference to the general director of CSKA Roman Babaev. According to the publication, most RPL teams supported the idea of ​​expanding the league. Representatives of the Zenit and Spartak clubs voted against. From what season 18 teams will begin to perform in the league is still unknown.

Gazprom Neft is looking for a contractor for the construction of a building on Okhtinsky Cape. The competition is held closed, the details of the project are unknown. Because of this, city-defenders are worried: they are worried about the fate of a unique territory with many archaeological monuments. It was they who became one of the reasons why Gazprom had to abandon the construction of a skyscraper on Okhta.

In St. Petersburg on January 16, a second temperature record in a row was recorded. This was reported by the weather forecaster of the Fobos Center Mikhail Leus . According to Leus, record values ​​were recorded at 7 a.m. At this moment, the temperature reached 6.8 degrees. The previous record was set in 1975, when on January 16 the temperature reached 5.4 degrees. The final record will be known after 21 hours, when meteorologists will take readings from the maximum thermometers.

In St. Petersburg on the morning of January 16, 7-point traffic jams were formed. This follows from Yandex.Cart data. Problems with movement arise in the center of St. Petersburg, in the northern regions, in the south and east of the city. Drivers primarily blame the weather: on Thursday morning in St. Petersburg there is heavy rain. Many congestion were formed due to accidents. "Fontanka" also pays attention to a traffic jam with a length of 7.7 km on the inside of the room.

Petersburg took fifth place in the world ranking in terms of growth in residential real estate prices. This was written by RBC with reference to the study of the British company Knight Frank. Experts compared the cost of housing in 150 cities for the third quarter in 2018 and 2019. During this time in St. Petersburg, prices rose by 14.2 % and the city rose in the ranking from 37 to 5th place. Moscow took 11th place, but last year also rose - from 133 positions.

Blogger Dmitry Chernyshev asked on his Facebook why there were special nooks in the St. Petersburg courtyards. He noted that it would be much more convenient to make the walls straight - and the spaces in the house would have become more. Subscribers offered different options - that this place served as a kind of “pipe”, where smoke and smells of food from the kitchens went, or contributed to the house more than the light.

On Nevsky Prospekt, the driver of the Hyundai car shot down a man at a pedestrian crossing. Soon the driver was detained. reports Fontanka with reference to the press service of the traffic police in St. Petersburg. The accident occurred on the morning of January 16. According to preliminary information, a 59-year-old man who crossed the road at a pedestrian crossing was injured. From the blow, the man flew to the sidelines, he was hospitalized in a state of moderate severity.

In December, Science Slam was held in St. Petersburg, at which six scientists made lectures on the Arctic. Its winner was the senior teacher of the Department of Ethnography and Anthropology of St. Petersburg State University Stanislav Kiselev, who talked about how the Nenets adapt modern technologies. “Paper” spoke with Stanislav and found out how modern Nenets live, why they drink blood and eat raw meat, as well as in which supernatural creatures they believe.

The post of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, instead of Dmitry Medvedev, should be in the near future by the head of the Federal Tax Service Mikhail Mishustin. His candidacy for this position was proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mishustin was never a public official, and users of social networks did not immediately understand who we were talking about, so many media published texts about the future of the Prime Minister.

On the evening of January 15, Petersburgers noticed a multi-meter projection of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the facade of the Leader Tower business center on the Constitution Square. They published photos with an unusual sight on social networks, comparing Putin with a big brother from the 1984 Antiopia novel.

In the center of assistance to wild animals, Veles from winter hibernation came a brown bear Potka. The video of his awakening was published by the organization’s employees. The record shows that the wallpaper has not yet come to his senses after sleep, but is already ready to dine. The employees of the center treated him with chicken. The air temperature in St. Petersburg in the first 15 days of January became the highest in the history of meteorological observations - since 1881.

The All -Russian vote on amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin is planned to be carried out before May 1, 2020. This was reported by TASS with reference to a source in the Federation Council. According to the source, the vote will be held on the weekend. The voting procedure is still being developed, he said.