A court in Saint Petersburg sentenced the creator of the animated series «Masyanya», Oleg Kuvaev, in absentia to 4 years and 1 month in prison. He was found guilty on charges of calls for activity against the security of the state and violating the rules governing the activities of a «foreign agent», the press service of the St. Petersburg courts said.

#Israel #Masyanya #MinjustRossii #OlegKuvaev #Roskomnadzor #StPetersburg

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Bailiffs imposed an arrest within 115.5 thousand rubles on the funds of Say Agency, which organized the announced Kanye West concerts in Russia. The basis for the proceedings was a writ of execution from the Oktyabrsky District Court of Samara in a civil lawsuit for consumer rights protection.

#SayAgency #GazpromArena #KaneUest #Russiancourts #Samara #StPetersburg

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Russian regions are cutting investment programs, spending on the construction of social facilities, and urban improvement due to budget deficits. According to sources for the Open Nizhny portal in regional authorities, when drafting budgets for 2027, this may affect 60–65 of the 89 constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

#budgetoftheRussianFederation #WarinUkraine #MinistryofFinanceoftheRussianFederation #Moscow #StPetersburg #finance #Economy

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Court in St. Petersburg sentenced blogger Alexey Podnebesny to three years in a general-regime penal colony in a case involving lewd acts and sexual intercourse with a minor. According to investigators, in 2024 he had sex with a 15-year-old schoolgirl.

#AlexeyPodnebesnyi #EkaterinaMizulina #SafeInternetLeague #pedophilia #StPetersburg

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At the Klin hospital in the Moscow region, ophthalmologist Anna Kovalkina was fired after refusing to switch to new working conditions with her previous salary. Management proposed increasing outpatient hours from 33 to 39 per week, which would have raised the number of patients per day from about 35 to 50.

#healthcare #MinistryofHealth #ophthalmologist #Moscowregion #Rosstat #StPetersburg

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In the center of St. Petersburg, on Isaakiyevskaya Square, the historic K. L. Miller mansion near St. Isaac's Cathedral caught fire. The fire was assigned the third level of complexity, and there are no reports of injuries.

#KGIOP #culturalheritage #OsobnjakMillera #fire #StPetersburg

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On October 1, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced to the chargé d’affaires of Hungary the expulsion of employees of the Hungarian embassy in Moscow and the consulates general in Saint Petersburg and Kazan. The decision was made in response to the September expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats from Hungary, for which Budapest allotted two weeks.

#Hungary #Kazan #RFMFA #Moscow #RussiaandEurope #StPetersburg

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Ilya Traber regained his stakes in three companies, from which he exited after his detention on June 17. These are the «Primorsky UPC», the «Primorsky Universal Terminal», and the «Digital Projects Bureau».

#business #IljaTraber #crime #StPetersburg

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In St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, and Omsk, local authorities and management companies have begun collecting money from residents and businesses to equip shelters and bomb shelters in the basements of buildings. In Yekaterinburg, the targeted payment for residents of one district will amount to 841 rubles per person, and in Omsk, parents of kindergarten pupils are being asked to contribute 200 rubles for benches and a water supply.

#bombshelters #WarinUkraine #Yekaterinburg #Housingandutilities #Omsk #StPetersburg #StrikesagainstRussia

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In August 2026, for the first time since 2020, apartment rents fell in Russian million-plus cities, CIAN lead analyst Elena Bobrovskaya told Kommersant. One-bedroom apartments in the 16 largest cities became cheaper by an average of 3% year on year, and two-bedroom apartments — by 6%.

#mortgage #Lifestyle #Moscow #theproperty #Russia #StPetersburg #cyanogen

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In St. Petersburg, all coronavirus restrictions will be lifted starting October 1. The decision at Smolny was made on the basis of an order from the chief state sanitary doctor for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

#covid19 #WHO #ResolutionNo121 #Rospotrebnadzor #StPetersburg

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The Government of St. Petersburg will lift coronavirus restrictions on October 1. From that day, the decree of March 13, 2020, «On measures to counter the spread of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in St. Petersburg» will cease to be in effect.

#covid19 #Rospotrebnadzor #Russia #StPetersburg

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In St. Petersburg on September 25, residents complained about disruptions to mobile internet service on the day Russian President Vladimir Putin was due to arrive in the city. According to Downdetector, the number of complaints after 15:00 approached 300.

#CityParkingManagementCenter #mobileInternet #Putin #StPetersburg

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Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, at a meeting of the State Council of the Russian Federation commission as part of the XII St. Petersburg International Forum of United Cultures, said that the restoration sector is short of about 30,000 specialists with secondary vocational education. She also said that 80,000 people work in the industry, of whom 13,000 are certified.

#StateCounciloftheRussianFederation #MinistryofCulture #restoration #StPetersburg #TatianaGolikova #ForumofUnitedCultures

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The Russian Ministry of Finance has changed the terms of the «Family Mortgage» program: from October 1, the interest rate and maximum loan amount will depend on the number of children in the family and the region of residence.

#MinistryofFinanceoftheRussianFederation #Moscow #Russia #StPetersburg #Familymortgage

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The travel service «Tutu» reported that Russians who travel abroad earn an average of 75.6 thousand rubles per month per person. For those who travel within Russia, the average income was 60.2 thousand rubles.

#Moscow #Russia #StPetersburg #tass #Tutu

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After 95.1% of the published protocols have been processed, «A Just Russia» is gaining 5.04% of the votes and is crossing the five-percent threshold. According to calculations by Novaya Gazeta Europe, at least 67,000 votes for the party appeared in the protocols after the partial count.

#StateAutomatedSystemElections #UnitedRussia #StPetersburg #FairRussia #Ulyanovsk #cyc

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An analysis of voter turnout data in the State Duma elections following the first day of voting revealed 12 regions where it grew by more than 10 percentage points compared with 2021 for no apparent reason. In four of them, researchers also saw an unnatural distribution of interim turnout.

#elections #TheStateDuma #UnitedRussia #StPetersburg #cyc #electronicvoting

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In the first half of 2026, 4.3 thousand healthcare and social services workers in Russia were laid off due to staff reductions, according to Rosstat data. Another 161.3 thousand people left of their own accord, and total employment in the sector fell by 19.3 thousand people over six months.

#healthcare #Rosstat #StPetersburg #Sberbank #FederationCouncil #socialsphere

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Moscow resident Alexey Zykov has filed a lawsuit against Say Agency, which organized Kanye West’s concert in Saint Petersburg, and is demanding a refund of 46,000 rubles for the ticket and a 4,200-ruble fee. The hearing date has not yet been set, and this is already the second similar lawsuit against the company.

#GazpromArena #KanyeWest #MoscowCityCourt #entertainment #Russia #StPetersburg

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