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Peterburgia

President: Grigory Yavlinsky
Vice-President: Galina Khovanskaya	
Prime-minister: Aleksej Navalny
Vice Prime-minister: Nikolai Levichev
Capital: Sankt Peterburg

Population: 102,460,026 people 

Established: 27th May 1703 (Independence from Tsardom of Russia)
Current constitution: 1 October 1952
Currency: Euro (€) (EUR)
Member of the European Union: since 1953 
Member of United Nations
Member of NATO: since 1955
National Anthem: Hymn to the Great City by Reinhold Gliere 
Religion: undeclared
Calling code: +35
Internet TLD: .pg
Language: Russian
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)
UTC+3 (EEST)
Date format	dd/mm/yy
Driving side	left
ISO 3166 code	PBG

Legislature	Parliament
Upper house: Senate:
(PAN 104, Labour 26, Liberal Democratic 20, Nationalist 6, Green 2, Independent 2)
Lower house: Palata Predstaviteley
(PAN 339, Labour 230, Liberal Democratic 34, Green 20, Nationalist 13, Volnaya Bashkira 7, Chelyabina Partiya 4, Independent 3)

Regions: 50 (6 federal city regions)
Population Capital:
Arkhangelsk Oblast 1,570,539 Arkhangelsk
Vologda Oblast 1,353,568 Vologda
Kaliningrad Oblast 1,002,281 Kaliningrad
Republic of Karelia 792,281 Petrozavodsk
Komi Republic 1,250,847 Syktyvkar
Leningrad Oblast 1,813,205 Sosnovyj Bor
Murmansk Oblast 1,146,534 Murmansk
Novgorod Oblast 753,355 Veliky Novgorod
Pskov Oblast 846,810 Pskov
Ivanovo Oblast 1,317,329 Ivanovo 
Astrakhan Oblast 1,017,276 Astrakhan
Volgograd Oblast 2,699,223 Volgograd
Vladimir Oblast 1,653,990 Vladimir
Ryazan Oblast 1,345,910 Ryazan
Voronezh Oblast 2,469,803 Voronezh
Kursk Oblast 1,339,091 Kursk
Smolensk Oblast 1,158,574 Smolensk
Belgorod Oblast 1,550,620 Belgorod
Bryansk Oblast 1,474,941 Bryansk
Krasnodar Krai 5,066,221 Sochi
Rostov Oblast 4,404,013 Taganrog
Bashkortostan 4,104,336 Sterlitamak
Kirov Oblast 1,692,529 Kirov
Republic of Mordovia 1,026,766  Saransk
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast 3,714,028 Dzerzhinsk
Orenburg Oblast 2,179,551 Orenburg
Penza Oblast 1,504,941 Penza
Perm Krai 3,099,421 Perm
Samara Oblast 3,265,737 Samara
Saratov Oblast 2,686,310 Saratov
Republic of Tatarstan 3,894,265 Kazan
Udmurt Republic 1,623,316 Izhevsk
Ulyanovsk Oblast 1,400,811 Ulyanovsk
Lipetsk Oblast 1,230,499 Lipetsk
Chuvash Republic 1,347,754 Cheboksary
Tver Oblast 1,670,459 Tver
Yaroslavl Oblast 1,470,398 Yaroslavl
Tyumen Oblast 3,692,841 Tyumen
Khanty-Mansi Oblast 1,532,817 Khanty-Mansiysk
Chelyabinsk Oblast 3,623,339 Magnitogorsk
Dagestan 3,063,885 Makhachkala
Republic of North Ossetia-Alania 715,275 Vladikavkaz
Stavropol Krai	2,800,139 Stavropol
Chechen Republic 1,444,686 Grozny
Saint Petersburg Metropolitan Area 5,035,547 Saint Petersburg
Rostov Metropolitan Area 1,125,000 Rostov on Don
Nizhny Novgorod Metropolitan Area 1,438,133 Nizhny Novgorod
Chelyabinsk Metropolitan Area 1,202,371 Chelyabinsk
Krasnodar Metropolitan Area 1,216,560 Krasnodar
Ufa Metropolitan Area 1,162,098 Ufa

Mobile phone operators:
Orange
T-Mobile
Vodafone
Tele2
Three

Banks in Peterburgia:
Alfa-Bank
Bank Saint Petersburg
Citibank
Credit Agricole
Raiffeisen Bank
UniCredit Bank 
ING Bank Chelyabinska
Idea Bank
NBS BNP Paribas
MetroBank

Main Television Networks:
OMP (Obshchestvennaya Mediakorporatsiya Peterburga):
- OMP1 
News bulletins (Dnevnik) at 
6am-9am (every 30 mins, 7-9 min)
12pm (30 min)
3pm (20 min) 
5pm (20 min) 
7:30pm (40 min)
11pm (30 min)
Regional News (Regionalny Dnevnik) at:
6:25am-8:55am (every 30 mins, 5 mins)
12:30pm (20 min)
3:20pm (10 min)
5:50pm (25 min)
10:50pm (10 min)
- OMP2 
News bulletins at
- 6:15pm (20 min, Novosti na Vtorom)
- 9:45pm (35 min, Vecher Dva)

NTV (also home for Stoloto): 
News bulletins (Segodnya) at
6am-8:30am (every 30 mins, 10-15 min) 
9am (20 min)
12pm (35 min)
3pm (20 min) 
6:30pm (35 min) 
10pm (40 min)
12am (15 min) 
4am (15 min)
Regional News (Segodnya v) at
7:45am (15 mins)
12:35pm (20 min)
3:20pm (15 min)
5:55pm (30 min)
10:40pm (25 min, only on most regions)

Puls:
News bulletins (InformTV) at
9am (15 min)
12pm (27 min)
3:30pm (15 min)
6:30pm (26 min)
10:30pm (29 min)

Novyj: 
News bulletins (Reporter) at
6:00am (25 min)
7am, 7:30am, 8am, 8:30am (5 min)
9:00am (10 min)
1:00pm (20 min)
4:00pm (15 min)
7:00pm (30 min)
10:30pm (30 min)
12:55am (15 min)

Shestoj
News bulletins (Novosti 6) at
6:45am, 7:45am, 8:15am (5 min)
7:15am (10 min)
8:45am (15 min)
10:45am (15 min)
12:45pm (25 min)
3:45pm (15 min)
6:45pm (30 min)
10:45pm (30 min)
12:45am (20 min)
Local news at:
5:45pm (25 min)

Main newspapers:
Novyj Den
Peterburgskaya Pravda
Eho Dnya
Izvestiya 
Novaya Gazeta
Peterbuskij Dnevnik
Zhizn
Sankt Peterbuskie Vedomosti
Delovaya Gazeta
Biznes Den
Delovoj Peterburg
Gazeta Sport 
Sportivnyj Dnevnik


Weekly newspapers:
- Argumenty
- Newsweek Peterburgiya
- Delo
- Nedelya Peterburga
- Nevskij chas

Alfa-Bank Pervaya Liga is the top division professional association football league in Peterburgia. The competition is administered by the Peterburgia Football Association. There are 16 teams in the competition. The league has three Champions League qualifying spots given to the top three teams at the end of the season and the two Europa League spots will be allocated to the fourth and fifth placed teams. The last two teams are relegated to the Vtoaraya Liga at the end of the season.

Current league teams:
FC Krasnodar
Akhmat Grozny
Rubin Kazan
Zenit Saint Petersburg
Krylia Sovetov Samara
FC Ufa
FC Orenburg
FC Chayka Peschanokopskoye
FC Nizhny Novgorod
Fakel Voronezh
Rotor Volgograd
Avangard Kursk	
PFC Sochi
FC Rostov
FC Armavir
FC Mordovia Saransk