On Wednesday, June 2, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum began. In the city, meetings of businessmen and discussions on the topic of investment, rights and ecology, as well as parties and concerts are expected. On Friday, President Vladimir Putin will arrive in St. Petersburg. We tell and show how the first day of the forum in St. Petersburg goes. PMEF-2021 officially opened in the Expoforum at 10:00. However, the first guests arrived at the site earlier - before 9:00.

On Kazan Street, 25 Raskroi design space opens, the creators of the site told Paper . The project will begin work on June 3, the space will work at the junction of fashion, retail and technology. After launch in Raskroi, a cafe, coworking, lectureur and retail space will open. It is also planned to conduct master classes, exhibitions, lectures and other events related to the fashion industry.

The accreditation of universities in Russia from March 1, 2022 will become unlimited, TASS reports with reference to the press service of Rosobrnadzor. According to the deputy head of Rosobrnadzor Svetlana Kochetova, the department will begin to accredit universities under new rules. Now, institutions will not be evaluated from the point of view of compliance of educational programs with standards, but by the quality of training of students.

In St. Petersburg in the evening of June 2, an informal part of the International Economic Forum takes place. At different sites for participants are Grigory Leps, Zivert and the Kino group. Sergei Shnurov presented his new Zoya project with vocalist Ksenia Rudenko from Krasnodar. "Paper" shows a photo and video from parties. Zoya project. Photo: " PMEF Direct " Group "Kino" in the Qin restaurant on Vasilyevsky Island At the PMEF party from Kommersant, the Kino group plays.

Megaphone opened the test zones where 4G and 5G communications operate. One of them is located in the area of ​​Nevsky Prospekt, and the other in the Expoforum congress and exhibition center. Technology is available to all subscribers with supporting devices. The maximum possible speed of mobile Internet in the new range is up to 4.1 Gb/s, and in existing ones - up to 1 Gbit/s.

Open to visit from 10:00 to 18:00 every day, except Monday and Tuesday. The entrance costs 250 rubles. Gatchina is a popular direction for suburban trips, while there are many places that tourists do not know about. Admire wooden buildings in the Art Nouveau style, inspect the castle of the Maltese knights and the palace farm, look at the estate of the cartoonist artist and arrange a picnic in the gazebo by the lake. In a cycle of guides on the suburbs of St.

In the New Holland, the summer pop-up-project was launched-the street cafe Bazar Kebap, located between the building of the forge and building No. 17, told Paper in the press service of the public space. The seats are located under a green canopy with traditional Turkish lanterns. Restors Ilya Bazarsky and Pavel Steinlukht are engaged in the project. The kitchen is led by a young cook from Turkey of Seven Yigit.

A meteor began to walk between St. Petersburg and the Ostrov Museum-Historical Park in Kronstadt, the Person of the Forters press service told Paper . He will operate four flights daily. The starting point of the route is the pier "Senate Pier" at the copper horseman. From there, meteors are sent for passengers to the palace embankment, and then to Kronstadt - to the berth at the fort, Peter the Great. The final point of the route is the winter pier in Kronstadt.

At the Peter and Paul Fortress, a red-white tent was installed to the PMEF, in which they will hold a closed event for the forum participants. The territory continues to work on the territory, the correspondent of the “Paper” reports. According to employees, in the tent they organize a circus performance. Near the structure are parked vans for artists. When exactly there will be a show, it is not specified. Photo: Anastasia Rozhkova / "Paper" Read how the PMEF-2021 will pass .

Deputies of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly as a whole adopted amendments to the city law on municipal elections, the Parliamentary press service reports . The bill initiates the opportunity to elect municipal deputies through a three -day vote. From the proposed amendments it follows that if the municipal elections coincide with the elections to the State Duma, then the decision on a three -day vote will be made by the Central Election Commission.

In St. Petersburg, on the evening of June 2, the Palace Bridge was blocked. This is evidenced by Yandex.Maps data. The closure caused traffic jams on nearby streets. For example, cars are parked in Dvortsovy Proezd, on Admiralteysky and Voznesensky Avenues. There are also heavy traffic jams in the area of ​​Sadovaya Street, Gostiny Dvor and Moskovsky Station. Update from 20:05 . According to Yandex.Maps, one-way traffic has been opened on the Palace Bridge.

The Qatar Investment Authority Cataru Supposed Foundation agreed to buy 24.99 % of the shares at Holding MSS LLC - a company that fully controls the operator of the Northern Capital Railway. This was reported on the website " VTB" . It is planned that the deal will be closed in the second half of 2021. This requires several conditions - for example, the approval of the federal antimonopoly service. The amount of the transaction is not disclosed.

The government approved the new rules of remote sale of drugs, the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers reports . Non -set pharmacies will be able to trade over -the -counter drugs on the Internet from September 1, 2021. Government Chairman Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree that makes changes to the rules for issuing permits for remote sale of drugs.

The residents of the Baku House created one of the most famous communities in St. Petersburg: they held a volunteer cleaning and developed excursions in their house. To collect donations for restoration, the neighbors registered a non -profit organization. Recently, a conflict has occurred between the residents, which can affect excursions on the front -line city. One of the reasons for the quarrel is the “museum” in one of the apartments and the failed attempts to agree on the donation system.

The police are checking after the man ran into a 4-year-old boy on an electric scooter in the park of the 40th anniversary of the Komsomol in the Kolpinsky district. This was reported to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. The incident occurred on June 1. The child was hospitalized in serious condition, the department establishes the circumstances of the incident. Another collision on the child occurred on the afternoon of June 2.