The Japanese have become fans of St. Patrick

The Novorossiysk sea trade port became the owner of a 50 percent share in the Baltic stevedoring company.

Leningrad region in 2007 will allocate 1.2 billion rubles for road repairs in the region, the federal treasury - 1.5 billion rubles.

An explosion at a mine in Kuzbass claimed 104 lives

The Moscow City Court remanded the former head of the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund in custody

On the roads of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, 13 accidents occurred on March 16-18, killing 8 people.

A main gas pipeline ruptured in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug; there were no casualties or threat to the environment.

Optimal exchange rates for US dollars and euros in banks in St. Petersburg on March 19 at 15:00.

USA in 2008 will invest $1.1 billion in product safety control

V. Matvienko introduced a bill allowing the city government to offer city property for transfer into the ownership of the Russian Federation.

The Railways will invest 1.2 billion rubles in the reconstruction of railway bridges across the Obvodny Canal in St. Petersburg.

In St. Petersburg, the Ministry of Emergency Situations rescues 3 fishermen caught on an ice floe in the Gulf of Finland.

L. Verbitskaya, A. Arshavin and O. Dmitrieva officially refused to work in the parliament of St. Petersburg. — RBC

St. Petersburg presented a technology park project worth 13 billion rubles at the CeBIT-2007 exhibition in Germany.

In St. Petersburg, the Ministry of Emergency Situations carried out an operation to rescue 3 fishermen stranded on an ice floe in the Gulf of Finland.