St. Petersburg has started issuing license plates with a new region code.

New license plates with the region code 778 have been issued in St. Petersburg. This became known on November 23 from the materials of the Platesmania website dedicated to car license plates.

New series for license plates are being introduced as possible combinations of numbers and letters are exhausted, she noted.Газета.Ru ".

Previously, the St. Petersburg region was assigned series numbers 78, 98, 178 and 198.

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Evgeny Masharov, a member of the commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation for the public examination of draft laws and other regulations, said on November 9 that drivers who intentionally conceal the state registration plates of their cars may be fined 5,000 rubles or deprived of the right to drive a vehicle for a period of one to three months. He noted that, in most cases, traffic police inspectors first warn the car owner and ask them to clean the "dirty" registration plate.

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