The project "Your Budget" has existed in St. Petersburg since 2016. It helps residents to improve the city at the expense of the budget. Any Petersburger can offer your idea - for this you need to leave an application on the site . The winner is selected by a special budget commission. For four years, the program “Your Budget” implemented more than 30 projects, for example, bicycle paths on the Fontanka embankment were laid and arranged a shower point for the homeless in the Admiralty district.

The authorities did not have time to organize free access to socially significant Internet resources for Russians by March 1, as previously planned . About this writes "Kommersant". It was assumed that from March access to the public services portal, as well as to sites of all federal and regional authorities will be completely free. This was reported in January in the Ministry of Communications.

Blogger-urbanist Ilya Varlamov visited the Petersburg village of Shushary and ridiculed him on his blog, ironically calling him "little Switzerland." Varlamov, who regularly criticizes the dense and high -rise buildings of microdistricts in the cities of Russia , is ironic and “admires” the shushars in the post. For example, he talks about “special water tanks” along the sidewalks, applying photos with asphalt flooded after rain.

President Vladimir Putin amended the second reading of his bill on amendments to the Constitution. Among them there is an amendment with the mention of God and considering marriage as an union of a man and a woman, the State Duma speakers said. According to the speaker Vyacheslav Volodin , one of the president’s amendments provides for the mention of God in the Constitution.

In March, on the Griboedov channel, an unusual ice formed again, which reminded Petersburgers of the painting by Van Gogh. This is an icy fat - a thick layer of small ice crystals on the surface of the water. In the photographs of the Griboedov channel dated March 2, it can be seen that the ice has already melted in many places. Earlier, ice fat was noticed on the rivers of St. Petersburg in late January.

Journalists Ksenia Sobchak , Alexey Pivovarov and Rodion Chepel demanded that the heads of the Investigative Committee and Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation resume the investigation of the criminal case of the murder of Vlad Listyev. All three journalists, independently from each other, published films-investigations about the murder of Listyev and, as they said in joint circulation, came to similar conclusions.

At the Eurovision Song Contest, Russia will be represented by the St. Petersburg group Little Big. This was reported on the air of the Time program on Channel One. The competition will take place from May 12 to 16 in Dutch Rotterdam . The song with which the group will perform at Eurovision will be published in the coming days. The decision to send the group to the competition was made by the first channel.

In the abandoned territory at the intersection of ash street and the Far Eastern Avenue, Eco -activists installed a scarecrow in a gas mask. This was reported in the Group "Civil Patrol" on VKontakte. Scarecrow was given the name Eucarpius Droumidontovich, and also made accounts in social networks, where he “thanks” Smolny for the landfill. Thus, citizens want to pay attention to the environmental problems of the Nevsky district.

During February, the sun in St. Petersburg shone for 37 hours. This was written by the leading weather forecasting of the meteorological forecasts of the Hydrometeorological Center Natalya Mironicheva in the newspaper St. Petersburg Vedomosti . In December, the sun shone 2.5 hours. Forecasters did not publish data for January. In general, February, like December since January, turned out to be an abnormally warm - the average monthly temperature exceeded the climatic norm by 7.4 degrees.

In the resident area, the passenger attacked a pregnant woman who drove him in a taxi. This was reported in the press service of the Russian Guard in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. According to the Russian Guard, in the evening of March 1, a man sat in a taxi. When he was taken to Klenovaya Street in Repin, he attacked a taxi driver, began to strangle, and having received a rebuff, beat and threatened with reprisals.

MTS, Beeline and Tele2 signed an agreement on the construction of infrastructure in the sections of the St. Petersburg metro. They plan to provide passengers with stable voice bonds and high -speed mobile Internet all the way, including between stations. MTS will be engaged in blue and orange lines, Beeline - red and green (from Vasileostrovskaya to “Rybatsky”), Tele2 - purple and green (from “Primorsky” to “Begovaya”).

The Russian who returned from Italy confirmed the presence of Covid-19 in the coronavirus body. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the operational headquarters for monitoring and counteracting coronavirus. According to RIA Novosti, the sick person returned from Italy to Russia on February 23. It is reported that the disease proceeds in a mild form.

The Red Cube chain of stores denied the departure from the market, which was previously reported in the media. This was written by TASS with reference to the brand representatives. Red Cube does not plan to close its own retail stores, only unprofitable franchise points will stop work.

The St. Petersburg Garrison Military Court sentenced to four years of the conditional term of Sergeant Sabit Mukashev for abuse of authority (paragraph “a” of part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, he beat his subordinates, writes the combined press service of the vessels of St. Petersburg.

Vyacheslav Bocharov and Rodion Shishkov. Photos provided by "Samokat" The pioneer in the Russian market of the express delivery was the Petersburg “scooter”, which was launched by former top managers Vyacheslav Bocharov and Rodion Shishkov. By March 2020, the service provided almost the entire city with the delivery of products in 15-30 minutes and continues to open points in St. Petersburg and Moscow.