The Government of St. Petersburg published a draft resolution on the creation of civil defense forces in the city and "maintaining them in readiness for action." The document is placed on the portal of anti -corruption examination. The document states that civil defense forces will be created by authorities. They will have to organize them in enterprises and institutions subordinate to them until December 31, 2022.

Despite locks and censorship, new projects continue to appear in the Russian -speaking media space. They write about the war, imperialism, LGBT+rights, emigration, as well as other countries. "Paper" has already collected a list of eleven new media that appeared after the outbreak of war. This turned out to be not enough - read about seven more independent journalistic projects. Paper Kartuli Local media about Tbilisi and Georgia from the “Paper” team in Russian and Georgian.

On Wednesday, August 17, information on the procedure for settlement of freshmen in the hostel appeared on the website of St. Petersburg State University. According to the report, state employees will begin to be populated on August 25, and only on August 30 students.

LLC Petrofond is an executor of the state contract for the improvement of Sosnovy Bor. According to SPARK, the owner and general director of the company is Tatyana Novikova, but the investigation considered Evgenia Novikov the actual leader of Petrofond. The Investigative Committee suspects two officials and a businessman from the Systroy of the embezzlement of a third of the amount allocated for the improvement of the park.

Estonian border guards refused to enter the country to several Ukrainian refugees. This was announced on August 16 by the St. Petersburg human rights activist Grigory Mikhnov-Vitenko. According to him, this is not an isolated case. The Ukrainians were not missed if before that they were in Russia for several months or incorrectly answered the question of self -determination of the inhabitants of Mariupol.