Tomsk kindergarten class reductions, urban conservation in Vyborg, and the Central Bank's crackdown on cash via crypto exchanges: overnight news from NeMoskva
🔹 In Tomsk Due to declining enrollment, 53 kindergarten groups have been suspended. According to Elena Sorokina, head of the city's Department of Education, the number of preschoolers has decreased by approximately 2,000 over the past two years. The saved space will be converted into groups for young children, creative arts, and science clubs.
🔹 In Vyborg The first local branch of the "Old Petersburg" urban conservation society, "Old Vyborg," was established. Until September 2026, St. Petersburg specialists oversaw the protection of the city's architectural heritage. Currently, the Vyborg group consists of three members. "The tasks are simple: coordinating urban conservation activities. This will improve the city's life if we can effectively protect [its] monuments," the urban preservationists share.
🔹 Muscovites They continue to find alterations in the "election" protocols. For example, at polling station 2878, United Russia and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation had 645 and 4 votes, respectively. Now they have 305 and 244. At polling station 2894, there were 490 and 13 votes, but now they have 190 and 313. It was at these polling stations that the Communist Party initially received suspiciously few votes.
🔹 The Central Bank of Russia is preparing major amendments to anti-money laundering legislation to strengthen controls over cash circulation. Director of the Central Bank's Financial Monitoring and Currency Control Service Bogdan Saber He announced plans to shut down channels for the legalization of cash of unknown origin, the main source of which are illegal crypto exchanges and large wholesale and retail markets.
🔹 The Prosecutor General's Office has declared three more foreign organizations "undesirable" in Russia. The updated list includes немецкий The Foundation for the Support of Ethnic Germans Abroad, which is engaged in humanitarian and educational projects, Ukrainian the Almenda Civic Education Centre, as well as the British human rights organisation Friends of Falun Gong Europe.