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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 566

Saint Petersburg

Flowers and a poster with a photo of pro-war military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky placed near the site of an explosion at the 'Street Bar' cafe in Saint Petersburg, Russia, April 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
April 3, 2023, 10:28 pm
Russia blames Ukraine for bomb that killed pro-war military blogger in St Petersburg
26-year-old nabbed after video shows her giving online personality Vladlen Tatarsky a bust of himself, which investigators suspect hid explosive; suspect denies she knew contents
By AP
Vladlen Tatarsky, a Russian military blogger, who was killed in a bombing in Saint Petersburg on April 2, 2023. (Twitter photo screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 2, 2023, 9:00 pm
Russian pro-war military blogger killed in Saint Petersburg cafe bombing; 16 injured
Vladlen Tatarsky, from Russian-occupied Donetsk, has 500,000 Instagram followers; group that hired cafe calls incident ‘terrorist attack’
By AFP
Emily Mulner (Facebook photo)
December 6, 2019, 7:34 pm
Russia to release 4-year-old Israeli girl detained for overstaying her visa
Emily Mulner traveled to Saint Petersburg to participate in a special program but was detained two weeks ago, a day before her scheduled return to Israel
By ToI Staff
A woman prepares to cast her vote at a polling station during to the Moscow city Duma election in Moscow on September 8, 2019. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
September 8, 2019, 2:42 pm
Russians go to polls after summer of protests and police crackdowns
As all allies of opposition figure Alexei Navalny are barred from running in local and regional elections, some say vote has lost legitimacy
By Anna SMOLCHENKO
In this photo taken on July 31, 2017 security officers stand guard outside the US Consulate in Saint Petersburg. (AFP PHOTO / Olga MALTSEVA)
March 29, 2018, 9:16 pm
Russia to expel 60 US diplomats, close a US consulate – Lavrov
In tit-for-tat measure over Skripal affair, foreign minister says consulate general in Saint Petersburg to be shuttered
By AFP
Vyacheslav Datsik jailed in Oslo in 2010. (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 20, 2018, 6:23 pm
Russian neo-Nazi jailed for forcing prostitutes to march naked down street
Former MMA fighter Vyacheslav Datsik sentenced to 3.5 years for hooliganism, breaking into property, and premeditated attack
By AFP
This photo provided by the Information Center of the Russian National Antiterrorism Committee shows the damage inside a supermarket after an explosion, in St. Petersburg, Russia on December 28, 2017. (National Antiterrorism Committee via AP)
December 30, 2017, 7:34 pm
Russian security agency arrests supermarket bombing suspect
Islamic State group claimed responsibility for blast that wounded 18, but member of security committee in Russia’s parliament casts doubt on declaration
By Vladimir Isachenikov
Firefighters and police officers work at the site of a blast in a supermarket in St. Petersburg on December 27, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Olga MALTSEVA)
December 29, 2017, 11:55 pm
IS says it was behind Saint Petersburg supermarket bombing
Group claims explosion in Russian shop that wounded 14 people
By AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony to bestow state awards on military personnel who fought in Syria, at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 28, 2017. (Kirill Kudrayvstev/AFP)
December 28, 2017, 11:53 am
Putin calls Saint Petersburg blast ‘act of terror’
Russia’s National Anti-Terror Committee takes over probe into attack that hurt 13, which investigators initially treated as attempted murder
By AFP
Illustrative: Police officers guard the entrance to Sennaya Square metro station in St. Petersburg, on April 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/Olga Maltseva)
December 27, 2017, 8:03 pm
Blast in Saint Petersburg supermarket injures 4, say officials
Without mentioning terrorism as a possible cause, Investigative Committee spokesman says incident classed as attempted murder
By AFP
US President Donald Trump (left) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit, in the central Vietnamese city of Danang, on November 11, 2017. (AFP Photo/Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev)
December 17, 2017, 8:55 pm
Putin thanks Trump for CIA tip thwarting jihadi bomb plot
Intelligence supplied by the US allowed Russian security service to break up Islamic State group planning St. Petersburg suicide attack
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Likud MK Sharren Haskel, center, and Nahman Shai, next to her, at the Inter-Parliamentary Union assembly in Saint Petersburg, October 18, 2017. (Knesset spokesperson)
October 19, 2017, 1:18 pm
Israeli lawmakers walk out of summit amid anti-Israel onslaught
Kuwait’s parliament speaker shouts ‘child killers’ and ‘get out’ at Knesset members who are heckled when addressing forum in Russia
By Stuart Winer and Raphael Ahren
Russian police officers detain a supporter of opposition leader Alexei Navalny during an unauthorized rally in Saint Petersburg on October 7, 2017. (AFP/ Olga MALTSEVA)
October 8, 2017, 3:58 am
Hundreds arrested at anti-Putin rallies across Russia
Violence reported in Saint Petersburg as police break up unauthorized protest called by jailed opposition leader Navalny
By AFP
A man lays flowers at a symbolic memorial outside the Tekhnologichesky Institute subway station in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 4, 2017. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
April 4, 2017, 6:35 pm
Russian investigators name metro bomber who killed 14
Akbarjon Djalilov, 22, was a naturalized Russian citizen originally from Kyrgyzstan; his DNA was also found on second bomb at station
By Agencies
Russian President Vladimir Putin places flowers in memory of victims of the blast in the Saint Petersburg metro outside Technological Institute station on April 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/STR)
April 4, 2017, 12:51 pm
Death toll in Saint Petersburg subway bombing raised to 14
Health minister says 49 people remain hospitalized; city’s residents lay flowers outside metro station
By AP
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