The sculptor and creator of the St. Petersburg angel Roman Shustrov died in the Mariinsky hospital. This was announced on Facebook by the deputy of the Zaks Boris Vishnevsky. Shustrov at the beginning of May went to the hospital with pneumonia. Familiar sculptures on his page on social networks write that he was sick with Covid-19. This was not officially reported. Roman Shustrov is a Russian artist and sculptor. In 1985, he graduated from the Repin Academy of Arts.

This Sunday, May 17, the Fund of Infrastructure and Educational Programs (Rusnano group) and Paper will first hold the Science Bar Hopping festival online. In one evening, ten scientists with lectures on how the pandemic changed the world will perform on the air and what we wait in the near future. All broadcasts will be held in the St. Petersburg and Moscow publics of the festival in VKontakte . There will be two parallel streams: the first will begin at 16:00, the second at 16:30.

On the afternoon of May 14, a strong hail was held in the southern regions of St. Petersburg. Before that, it was snowing in the city, snow with rain and pouring rain. Forecasters predict abundant precipitation throughout the day. By evening, they expect up to +9 degrees.

On the morning of May 14, all passengers without masks stopped letting all passengers into the St. Petersburg metro. This was reported in the press service of the subway. Petersburgers complain about this. In the entrance to the lobby of the stations, the metro employees are checked by those who do not have masks and ask them to put on or buy in a special apparatus, the press service said.

Is there a chance to go abroad before the end of the year and will unused visas extend? Is it possible to plan foreign trips until the end of 2020, which countries will extend an unused visa due to coronavirus and what restrictions to wait after the opening of the borders? "Paper" answers the main questions about traveling abroad during the pandemic. Will I be able to go abroad until the end of 2020?

Visual Science, which is engaged in scientific visualization, has created a detailed 3D model SARS-COV-2. According to the company, the animation is based on modern scientific data on the structure of coronaviruses. Visual Science worked on the model for three months, including communicated with virus. Previously, the studio has already created detailed HIV models, as well as pathogens of fever of Zik and Ebola.

After July 2020, the Transport Committee will reduce more than 60 commercial routes in St. Petersburg. This was written by Kommersant with reference to three sources in the transportation industry. The information was confirmed by the Paper in the press service of the committee. According to the Transport Committee, they are already discussing with the professional community how bus transportation will be organized in St. Petersburg after July 16.

In early April, St. Petersburg journalist Sasha Bogino was hospitalized in early April with suspicion of pneumonia. She was lying in a hospital for war veterans for two weeks and kept a diary about the conditions in the hospital - she wrote about cockroaches in the wards and a lack of protective equipment from the medical staff. Sasha handed over the Coronavirus test three times, she was informed only one result - he turned out to be negative.

"Medusa" issued a large investigation dedicated to mortality from coronavirus in Russia . The publication with reference to demographers, pathologists and doctors reports that the country allegedly underestimates the number of dead patients. Earlier this was written by The New York Times and Financial Times, now their materials are checked by Roskomnadzor. According to Medusa, experts drew attention to the fact that coronavirus mortality in Russia is much lower than in other countries.

On the morning of May 14, in several areas of St. Petersburg, snow fell. Citizens are photographed by white trees, cars and streets. It should be rained during the day, in the city they expect up to +9 degrees. "Paper" collected 13 posts from social networks about late snowfall and weather change.

The Flow Musical Festival in Helsinki will not be held in August 2020 due to Pandemia of Coronavirus. The organizers reported this on the project website. “Ma followed the development of the situation with the Covid-19 and expert assessments, hoping that the situation is normalized. Unfortunately, now it has become clear that the active preparation of such a large event as the Flow Festival, which should take place in just a few months, is unsafe, ”the organizers wrote.

The military prosecutor's office began checking applications for the application by the FSB of violence with respect to the defendants in the case of the terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro Abrra and Azram Azimovs, found guilty. This was reported by lawyer Abror Azimov Munavar Kanitsrov. According to Canticerova, the investigation initially refused to initiate the case after statements about the torture of the Azimovs by the FSB officers in the investigation of the terrorist attack.

In Russia , over the past day, coronavirus confirmed in 9974 people. This follows from the data of the operational headquarters to combat the distribution of the Covid-19, published in the morning of May 14. In St. Petersburg, 460 new cases were recorded. The total number of confirmed cases of infection in the city reached 8945. 69 new cases of infection were recorded in the Leningrad region. Over the past day in St. Petersburg, six cases of death were also registered due to coronavirus.

The Petersburg Health Committee changed the procedure for providing payments to health workers who infected with coronavirus or dead as a result of the disease. The corresponding order is published on the Smolny website. Now information about the infection of the health worker can be provided to the commission created by the employer by himself or the institution that treated the sick.

The co-owner of the St. Petersburg North-Metropol network Elena Shevchenko said that 33 documents must be collected in order to receive a salary loan at Sberbank. She published a photo of the list on Facebook. Shevchenko also said that her friend in Germany received a subsidy of 15 thousand euros, while he was not required to report. “Our Sberbank has been tormenting us with a list of necessary documents for a month,” the entrepreneur writes.