More than 93 thousand users signed a petition on the Change.org website with a request to withdraw amendments to the Law on Educational Activities. They fear that many educational projects can be closed due to the requirements introduced. The bill was introduced to the State Duma by a group of senators and deputies led by Andrei Klimov.

The plane on which the politician Alexei Navalny flies landed at the Moscow Airport Sheremetyevo. This follows from Flightradar24 data. Update from 20:54. Leaving the plane, Navalny gave a comment on the background of a poster with a look of the Kremlin: “I am completely happy that I flew. This is my best day. Here is my house, I’m not afraid and with an absolutely normal feeling I go to border control, I will go out and go home because I know that I'm right.

The City Coordinating Council of Cover Covid-19 announced a possible increase in the number of sick and an increase in the number of directions to hospitals in St. Petersburg. This is stated in the information certificate of January 16. According to the Council, on January 18, the average incubation period of COVID-19 disease will end after a long weekend.

On the weekend, January 16 and 17, the Petersburgers again went for walks along the icy waters of the city. Photos are published on social networks. Citizens are divided by pictures of people walking on the ice of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Under the Anchkov bridge, a picket “Lessons of juggling cobblestones” was held - implying that the ice is solid and it allegedly cannot even break through the stone.

Petersburg photographer Anton Galakhov published pictures of the top of the Lakhta Center tower, which was covered with hoarfrost due to night frost. Photos are available on Galakhov Instagram. The photographer filmed the designs of the "Lakhta Center" from the drone. In other photographs shot from afar, hoarfrost is not visible. As Galakhov told Paper , he took pictures on the night of January 15, when there were 18 degrees on the street.

The probability of getting an infection with coronavirus in a public place in St. Petersburg grew compared to previous days. This was announced on January 17 by the City Coordinating Council for Cover Covid-19. The council notes that the risk of infection has grown up, as it took a week after the end of the long -term New Year holidays. “People who could become infected after going to work and study on January 11, may begin to feel the first signs of the disease,” the expert report said.

On the evening of January 17, law enforcement officers of Russia detained at least 69 people at the Vnukovo airport, where politician Alexei Navalny was supposed to fly. It is reported by the OVD-Info. The New Gazeta reported that some detainees were carried by the hands and feet. According to Znak.com, they are detained, among other things, Olga Buzova fans, who arrived at the airport allegedly met the singer. “Important stories” wrote about the beatings and the use of electric shockers.

Smolny published a list of 18 seats in which bathing is allowed for baptism. Fonts will appear in nine areas. Most of the fonts will be placed in the Petrodvortsov region: three in Strelna and one in Peterhof . Two fonts will appear in Vyborg , Kolpinsky , Krasnoselsky , Kurortny and Petrograd districts. One at a time in Kronstadt , Krasnogvardeisky , Primorsky and Pushkinsky districts.

The St. Petersburg policeman and his father, a pensioner of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, prevented the murder of a 96-year-old resident of the besieged Leningrad. This was reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

Petersburg activists held an action in support of Alexei Navalny , who is returning to Russia from Germany. They visited Pulkovo Airport in masks with the face of a politician. This “paper” anonymously announced one of the activists. Activists photographed and shot masked videos in the airport waiting area, at the scoreboard, at the exit, as well as in the bus. They called one video “The FSBSHNIK's Stior Dream”, the other is “a lot of bulk. Do not transplant everyone!

The coronavirus vaccine, developed by the Scientific Center for Research and the Development of Immunobiological Preparations named after Chumakov RAS, may enter the civil circulation in March 2021. This was said by the Deputy General Director of the Center Konstantin Chernov. The head of the Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said on January 15 that the Vaccine of the Chumakov Center should be registered “the other day”. “The results of the clinic are already very good, very revealing,” she said.

Evgeny Usov, a St. Petersburg journalist, expert of the Environmental Rights Commission, a spokesman for the Russian Greenpeace, died. This was reported by the Green Coalition and the Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. According to the Green Coalition, in early January, Usov was hospitalized in the dawn boarding house with lung lesions, which developed as a result of coronavirus.

Six activists were detained in St. Petersburg, who went to the Moscow Airport of Vnukovo to meet the opposition politician Alexei Navalny , returning from Germany. On the evening of January 16, police officers detained the coordinator of the regional headquarters of Alexei Navalny Irina Fatyanov and civil activist Ilya Gantwarga, the Apology of Protest said . According to human rights activists, they were “removed straight from the train”, on which they went to the meeting of Navalny.

The policy of Alexei Navalny was detained at the Moscow Airport Sheremetyevo. This was reported by eyewitnesses, as well as the FSIN . Judging by the broadcast from the scene, Navalny was detained at passport control. He was asked to go to the police station - and he left with the police. The press secretary of the politician Kira Yarmi wrote that Navalny was detained to "clarify the circumstances of the intersection of the state border." “Alexei was taken by police officers on the border.