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Line 8: Saint Petersburg city is currently divided into eighteen [[Administrative divisions of Saint Petersburg\|administrative divisions]]. Saint Petersburg is also the administrative center of [[Leningrad Oblast]], and of the [[Northwestern Federal District]].<ref>[http://www.szfo.ru/ Official site of the Northwestern Federal District (Russian)] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216171819/http://www.szfo.ru/ \|date=February 16, 2008 }}</ref> Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, despite being different federal subjects, share a number of departments of federal executive agencies, such as courts of arbitration, police, [[FSB (Russia)\|FSB]] bureaux, postal services, drug enforcement administration, penitentiary service, federal registration service, and other federal services. ==Crime== [[Image:Petersburg yard.jpg\|thumb\|left\|A typical older house backyard with shared slums]] As in other large Russian cities, Saint Petersburg experiences fairly high levels of [[street crime]] and bribery. In addition, in recent years there has been a noticeable increase in racially motivated violence. On the other hand, unlike in Moscow, there have been no major terrorist attacks in St. Petersburg in recent years.<ref name="osac">[https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=68422&print Russia 2007 Crime & Safety Report: St. Petersburg] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927070339/https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=68422&print \|date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref> Between the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, Saint Petersburg became home to a number of gangs, such as the [[Tambov Gang]], [[Malyshev Gang]], [[Kazan gang]], and other ethnic criminal groups, who engaged in [[racket (crime)\|racketeering]], [[extortion]] and often violent clashes with each other.<ref name="osac"/>[[Image:Kresty Prison.jpg\|thumb\|right\|The [[Kresty prison]]]]