Daytime rehearsals of the Main Naval Parade in St. Petersburg will restrict the movement of drivers in the city center. The ships will go out to practice maneuvers on the morning of 18 and 22 July and will finish the training run in the afternoon.
As specified in the transport committee, restrictions will be introduced on eight embankments, three avenues and streets, several avenues and lanes.
In addition, Liteiny, Troitsky, Palace and Blagoveshchensky bridges will be closed for pedestrians and drivers.
A Renaissance masterpiece was brought to the Hermitage from the Louvre. The painting by Raphael Santi “Madonna with Child and Little John the Baptist in a Landscape” (“The Beautiful Gardener”) will be available to residents and guests of St. Petersburg in one of the halls of the Winter Palace from 21 July.
Originally created at the beginning of the XIV century, the canvas was supposed to be brought to the northern capital in December 2020, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, these plans did not come true. The painting will be exhibited in the Apollo Hall and will occupy the ceremonial niche, becoming a continuation of the Raphael Line 1520-2020 exhibition.
Residents of the northern capital were warned about the continuation of the abnormal heat wave at the weekend: on July 16, the city administration for the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that the air temperature on Saturday and Sunday will again exceed the climatic norm by at least seven degrees. According to the forecast of forecasters, in the coming days, the thermometer will show +30 … + 31 degrees.
Intercessor from the State Duma, bribes and the course to arrest Bazhanov
State Duma Deputy Sergei Boyarsky spoke in support of small businesses who lost their income due to a temporary ban on work in shopping centers. The parliamentarian declared that it is necessary to allow the islets in the shopping center of St. Petersburg to operate if their tenants provided 100% vaccination of the staff.
Meanwhile, the Vyborg District Court ruled to detain and detain ex-banker Sergei Bazhanov in the case of embezzlement of funds from the International Bank of St. Petersburg (MBSP). At the moment, the suspect in the fraud Bazhanov is outside the country. therefore, the decision will take effect from the moment of his arrival in Russia or in the event of extradition.
It turned out to be much easier to detain an employee of the St. Petersburg Healthcare Committee: on July 16 it became known that one of the leading specialists of the department for the development of healthcare institutions was suspected of taking bribes in the amount of at least 2 million rubles.
The former head of the site at the Sredne-Nevsky shipyard, Nikolai Karagodov, was arrested altogether. Investigators believe. that he extorted bribes from subordinates for the opportunity to work overtime. The ex-employee of the shipbuilding enterprise will remain under arrest until the end of August.
Employees of the city administration of the Federal Tax Service (FTS) spoke about the effectiveness of their work. During the round table “DP”, the head of the St. Petersburg Federal Tax Service, Alexander Gnedykh, said that in the first quarter, the average amount of additional charges based on the results of an on-site tax audit amounted to more than 200 million rubles. At the same time, in Russia, this figure reached only 40 million.
In connection with the abnormal heat, additional electric trains will be sent from the Finlyandsky railway station to the suburbs of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. Additional trains will run all weekends until the end of July. In total, 12 electric trains will be included in the regular schedule on Saturdays and Sundays.
Nudity, reckless behavior and crime
A resident of the Frunzensky district of St. Petersburg became a defendant in a criminal case because of his temper. The man decided to intercede for his mistress, choosing a knife as an argument in a scuffle with her offenders. As a result of the fight, one of the attackers was killed.
While some Petersburgers suffer from aggression, the majority are still languishing in the stifling heat. Someone solves the problem by walking without clothes, and someone is trying to escape from the abnormally high temperatures with the help of adrenaline.
Last night, an unknown man was noticed on the dome of the House of the Singer Company in the center of St. Petersburg. The video with the participation of the roofer ended with the conquest of the globe, located at the highest point of the building.
The morning of July 16 began with much darker news: a few days ago, a dismembered corpse of a man was pulled out of the Fontanka. A terrible find was discovered by random passers-by.
