At the procession in support of protests in Khabarovsk, which took place in St. Petersburg on August 1, OMON and the police detained more than 20 people. The names of the five detainees are known: these are Alexey Nikolaev , Peter Ilyin, Nikita Chirkov, Maxim Leonov and Vladimir Vasilenko. The police began the detention after the activists followed the column along Nevsky Prospekt.

The Alexandrinsky Theater will begin a phased discovery for the audience in late August or early September. This was stated by the artistic director Valery Fokin with reference to an agreement with Rospotrebnadzor. Valery Fokin Artistic Director of the Alexandrinsky Theater (quote for TASS) - We have agreements that we will gradually open the theater for the audience.

The governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov told TASS that the working group under the Law on Naivaiki has time to finalize it before the entry into force on January 1, 2021. He called on the draft bill " in the interests of conscientious entrepreneurs and residents " Beglov also tried again to explain why he signed a law that, as he says, was not finalized at the preparation stage.

On Malaya Sadovaya Street, a promotion was held in support of protests in Khabarovsk, which was announced by the St. Petersburg branch of the Libertarian Party of Russia. Eyewitnesses report that more than 150 people gathered there. On Malaya Sadovaya, there was also a collection of signatures against amendments to the Constitution, which was also organized by the LPR.

Russia will resume air traffic with Switzerland from August 15, 2020. This was written by TASS with reference to the statement of the operactor. According to the agency, flights from Moscow to Geneva and vice versa will be executed once a week. TASS reports that the operational headquarters under the chairmanship of Tatyana Golikova made the decision to resume the air traffic on a mutual basis.

The Hamalea Center in Moscow completed clinical tests of the vaccine from coronavirus infection. This was stated by RIA Novosti Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko. According to Murashko, a package of documents for registering the drug is now being prepared. After receiving a registration certificate, as the minister says, “special groups” are vaccinated in Russia : doctors and teachers. Mass vaccination is planned to be carried out since October, he said. Update from 17:45.

On the morning of August 1, employees of the Ministry of Emergencies neutralized a 500-kilogram high-explosive bomb from the Great Patriotic War, which was found on the Pulkovo highway in St. Petersburg. This was told by the press service of the department.

By August 1, 5462 new cases of infection with coronavirus were revealed in Russia , of which 161 were reported in St. Petersburg. This was reported by the operastble. In Russia, less than 6 thousand cases of Covid-19 are recorded on the 13th in a row in a row. At the same time, less than 200 cases of coronavirus infection every day are detected in St. Petersburg.

Andrei Grishin, an assistant to the deputy of the Roman Roman Koval, was hospitalized in the Elizabethan hospital after the detention of the FSB. This was stated by his lawyer Rostislav Zimin in a court to choose a preventive measure, writes Fontanka. According to the defender, after the detention of the FSB by Grishin, a hematoma of the temporal region and a tearing wound on his forehead appeared.

Less than an hour from St. Petersburg is the village of Pavlovo, which appeared thanks to the scientific town of Ivan Pavlov built there in the 1920-30s. It was there that he conducted experiments with dogs and chimpanzees. The complex, which is now part of the Pavlov Institute of Physiology, looks unusual: laboratory and household corps located among the greenery, not far from which residential cottages were grouped.

On the morning of August 1, in the courtyard of Semenov’s house on Rimsky-Korsakov, 39 workers began the dismantling of a historical paving, which in July found under a layer of asphalt. The work began at about 10:00, and after 14:00 the police and KGIOP arrived at the place. The Ministry of Internal Affairs decided to stop work, as the stones were loaded in Kamazi along with garbage.