Google has updated its map service Street View. Now users can have a virtual walk in Kazan, Sochi, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg.

A collapse of a historical monument of wooden architecture - Fire Depot – occurred in Vasilevo Estate, the Torzhok District of the Tver Region.

In St. Petersburg unidentified vandals have once again profaned a monument to victims of political repressions - the Solovki Stone – set up in the Troitsky Square.