In St. Petersburg, tour operators received 95% of tourists' failures from tours to the city, which were booked on New Year's holidays. The total amount of rounds that canceled amounted to almost 223 million rubles. This was reported by "Interfax" with reference to the "RST-Sevele-West". “None of the companies can boast of the positive dynamics of tourist flow according to the results of the year,” the company writes.

Aino, Olga and Mary Lintunena The official directive on the elimination of Finnish citizens living in the USSR was signed on December 14, 1937. In fact, by this moment at least 478 people were arrested in Karelia, later convicted in the framework of this operation . In total, 11 thousand people became victims of the “Finnish operation” of the NKVD in 1937-1938, 9078 people were sentenced to shoot, 3340 people were shot in Karelia “along the Finnish espionage line”.

Yuri Dmitriev The head of the Karelian Memorial, historian Yuri Dmitriev became the laureate of the Franco-German Prize "For Human Rights and the Supreme of Law." This was reported by the international "memorial". The Prize was established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France and Germany. It is awarded annually for contribution to the defense and promotion of human rights in its country and at the international level.

Show more Show Less Coronavirus affects not only people's lives, but also the life of animals. There is a private oceanarium in Murmansk, where the most elderly eared seal in the world lives nicknamed Phil. He worked in the oceanarium all his life, but because of the pandemic, all the performances were canceled. Animals are waiting for hundreds of visitors to gather again for their representations, while the oceanarium itself lives in debt.

Alexey Navalny The poisoning of the founder of the Foundation for the Corruption of Alexei Navalny in Tomsk was the second attempt to attempt on him, this is stated on the Navalny website. The investigation was conducted by the Bellingcat group with the participation of the publication The Insider, CNN, Der Spiegel and the Navalny Corruption Fund. Journalists called the names of the FSB officers, who, according to investigators, are involved in the poisoning of Navalny.

Vladimir Medinsky The former head of the Ministry of Culture Vladimir Medinsky was awarded with a special prize at the Window to Europe Film Festival, which took place in the city of Vyborg, Leningrad Region. This is stated on the website of the festival. Medinsky was awarded the prize "For patriotic service, the cause of preservation and study of the history of the Fatherland forces for cinematography." The awarding of the former minister was without spectators.

Oleg Sokolov The prosecution asks the Petersburg historian, the former assistant professor of St. Petersburg State University Oleg Sokolov to 15 years in a maximum security colony on charges of murder of Anastasia Yshchenko and the illegal acquisition of ammunition. The online broadcast of the court session was held in YouTube.

In the Murmansk region, the police detained an 18-year-old resident of the Arkhangelsk region and a 16-year-old resident of the city of Kandalaksha on suspicion of desecrating the feelings of believers. Investigators believe that the girls in mid -November painted inscriptions on the walls of the Orthodox Church, located along Dzerzhinsky Street in the village of Umba. What exactly was drawn is not specified.

The court in Arkhangelsk issued convictions in the waste of almost 20 million rubles belonging to 47 equity holders of the Leningradsky residential complex. The director and employee of the Stroyresurs LLC Andrei Kolmakov and Andrei Borodin were condemned for four years conditionally - everyone. This was reported by the regional prosecutor's office. Brother Borodin, Alexei Borodin, also passed the accused in the case.

The 88-year-old resident of Syktyvkar Raisa Litvinova through the court obtained from the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Komi the disclosure of the secrets of her adoption. She needs a document to receive the criminal case of her biological father in the FSB archive, repressed in 1942. This was written by "Kommersant" with reference to the international "memorial".