The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent a 16-year-old teenager to pretrial detention in a case on aiding terrorism. According to investigators, Vladimir believed he was corresponding with representatives of the Russian Volunteer Corps, but in fact his interlocutors were officers of Russia’s FSB.

#Russkydobrovolcheskykorpus #StPetersburg #pretrialdetentioncenter #terrorism #FSB

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In St. Petersburg, monkeypox was laboratory-confirmed in four residents, and all of them were hospitalized in a city hospital. Their condition is assessed as moderately severe.

#Domodedovskajabolnica #Moscowregion #monkeypox #Ramenskajabolnica #Rospotrebnadzor #StPetersburg

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At night in Moscow and St. Petersburg, airport operations were restricted. In the capital, nearly 160 flights were delayed or canceled, and at Pulkovo — 46.

#Vnukovo #Domodedovo #Moscow #Pulkovo #StPetersburg #Sheremetyevo

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The St. Petersburg administration has banned foreign citizens with a work patent from working in healthcare, hairdressing services, cosmetology, retail trade, and the field of physical culture and wellness. The restriction will remain in effect until the end of this year.

#TheStateDuma #eez #KrokusSitiHoll #migracionnajapolitika #StPetersburg #Smolnyi

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The 1st Western District Military Court in St. Petersburg sentenced television producer Kapitolina Averina to 6.5 years in a general-regime penal colony in the case of calls for terrorism. According to the case file, she was charged with three counts.

#WarinUkraine #Kommentarii #repressions #Russiancourts #Russia #StPetersburg #FSB

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Novy Urengoy and Salekhard topped the seventh annual ranking of the 100 largest cities in Russia by the purchasing power of salaries, compiled by RIA Novosti. Grozny and Nalchik were at the bottom of the list.

#Moscow #NovyiUrengoi #RIANews #Salekhard #StPetersburg

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The Wall Street Journal writes that NATO has prepared a response plan to a possible Russian attack, providing for strikes on targets near St. Petersburg, in the Kaliningrad region, and in Belarus. The concept was outlined at the security forum in Warsaw by the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, Alexus Grynkewich.

#Belarus #Warsaw #KaliningradOblast #NATO #Russia #StPetersburg

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The group Shortparis released the album «Iliad», which features the voice of frontman Nikolai Komyagin, who died on February 20, 2026, at the age of 39 from cardiac arrest. The record is already available on Spotify, Apple Music, and major Russian and international music platforms.

#Attaquedepanique #shortparis #Iliad #CaroArt #NikolaiKomjagin #StPetersburg

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According to Agency, Vladimir Putin’s plane, after returning from Turkmenistan, may have been directed to land in St. Petersburg, and then it took off for Moscow almost immediately. This happened amid attacks by Ukrainian drones and balloons, which led to the «Carpet» plan being introduced at Moscow and Moscow-area airports and more than 300 flights being delayed or canceled.

#VladimirPutin #Moscow #Pulkovo #CISsummit #StPetersburg #Turkmenistan

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«Kommersant», citing two sources, wrote that American rapper Kanye West received about $20 million for concerts in Saint Petersburg, which were later canceled. On October 4, it became known that ticket buyers had begun receiving refunds, and the St. Petersburg police began a preliminary investigation into the organizer on suspicion of fraud.

#SayAgency #GazpromArena #KaneUest #music #entertainment #Russia #StPetersburg

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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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