The blogger and urbanist Ilya Varlamov suggested that the governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov participate in a joint walk around the city. Varlamov releases the BDSM show on Utube - “Big Road with the mayor”. In this show, he walks around the cities with their leaders. At different times, the heads of Kaliningrad, Perm, Lipetsk, Surgut, Makhachkala and other cities appeared there. The blogger suggested participating in the filming and Beglov.

Blogger-urbanist Ilya Varlamov visited the Petersburg village of Shushary and ridiculed him on his blog, ironically calling him "little Switzerland." Varlamov, who regularly criticizes the dense and high -rise buildings of microdistricts in the cities of Russia , is ironic and “admires” the shushars in the post. For example, he talks about “special water tanks” along the sidewalks, applying photos with asphalt flooded after rain.

The Ministry of Justice included the Foundation for the Defense of Prisoners' Rights and the regional public organization for promoting the observance of human rights "Hotline" on the list of foreign agents. This is reported on the department's website. The Ministry of Justice clarifies that it discovered signs of foreign agents in the organization as a result of checking their documents.

The Tver court did not release human rights activist Lev Ponomarev from arrest for the funeral of the chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alekseeva, who died on December 8 at the age of 92. this reports Mediazona . The petition was considered by Judge Dmitry Gordeev, who had previously sentenced Ponomarev to 25 days of arrest. Ponomarev asked the court to give him the opportunity to say goodbye to Alekseeva on December 9.

The Moscow City Duma will consider the issue of perpetuating the memory of human rights activist Lyudmila Alekseeva, told Chairman of the Duma Commission on Culture and Mass Communications Yevgeny Gerasimov TASS. Deputies are ready to consider proposals for a place where Alekseeva’s memory can be immortalized; these could be the places where she worked or lived, Gerasimov added. The oldest Russian human rights activist, Lyudmila Alekseeva, died on December 8 at the age of 92.

Human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, serving an administrative arrest, asked the court to give him the opportunity to say goodbye to the chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alekseeva, who died on December 8 at the age of 92. A photograph of the letter that Ponomarev sent to the Tverskoy Court of Moscow was published by the Telegram channel “Human Rights Postcards”. “I ask you to give me the opportunity to say goodbye to a loved one and organize her funeral.

President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram of condolences to the family and friends of human rights activist Lyudmila Alekseeva, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. The president “highly valued Alekseeva’s contribution to the development of civil society in Russia and extremely respected her principled position on many issues in the life of our country,” the press secretary added.

In one of his posts, the blogger Ilya Varlamov compared how they treated historical buildings in Moscow and in St. Petersburg. For example, he took the pre -revolutionary house 10 in Potapovsky Lane in Moscow, where, in his opinion, they carried out exemplary repairs. Varlamov believes that this does not happen in St. Petersburg. The apartment building was built in the period from 1914 to 1916.

Blogger Ilya Varlamov in an interview with Sports.ru criticized the architecture of the St. Petersburg stadium, calling it one of the most ugly arenial areas that adopted the World Cup. When asked about the impressions of the St. Petersburg stadium, Varlamov answered: “****** (nightmare - approx. Sports.ru). The most ugly. From the point of view of architecture, I was at 50 years old. ” According to Varlamov, the stadium has too large the number of elements inconsistent with each other.

Blogger Ilya Varlamov conducted a study of ads about sex services in different areas of St. Petersburg. In particular, he calculated which names are more common. So, for example, in the Central District in the ads, the most Diana and AN, in Moscow - Dash and Sabin, and in Primorsky - Yul and Vic. Zara and Masha are most often found in the Vyborsky district, and Olya and Kristina in Kirovsky. In total, the blogger analyzed advertising in eight regions of the city.

The governor of the Leningrad region Alexander Drozdenko suggested Blogger Ilya Varlamov to head the Public Council for the reconstruction of the historical quarter in the center of Vyborg. Varlamov told about this in an interview with “Paper”, clarifying that he did not accept the proposal. Ilya Varlamov , blogger: - All my experience of such interaction shows that this is all non -constructive [...] in my opinion, it is much more effective at a safe distance to poke a sharp stick into power.

The blogger Ilya Varlamov wrote a post called “Like us, Muscovites, to equip Peter”, in which he proposed to evict all the inhabitants from St. Petersburg “as a punishment for what they did with a beautiful city.” The blogger also said that “Muscovite must become,” and Petersburg accepts “any without face control”.

Moscow authorities plan to demolish houses in blocks / Ilya Varlamov / Photohpress Experts name the giants PIK and LSR , which build mainly economy and comfort class housing, as the main contenders, as well as companies that participated in the first demolition program: Krost, FSK Lider, MFS-6, Gals-development . Other developers without DSK, but capable of implementing large-scale projects, such as the PSN group, may be interested in renovation.

The blogger Ilya Varlamov wrote a post in which he stated that the new microdistricts like the St. Petersburg Parnas must be demolished. He called such microdistricts a “ghetto” with a lack of infrastructure. As an example of solving the problem of Varlamov, he cited such microdistricts that have already been demolished in other countries of the world. Ilya Varlamov , blogger: - Sooner or later it will become clear that such a format of housing hides a bunch of problems. So what to do?

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