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Dragged
What changes Matvienko’s departure from the post of St. Petersburg mayor
Dragged. President Dmitry Medvedev, offering the governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko to change his chair and become a speaker of the Federation Council, killed several hares at once. Firstly, he saved Valentina Ivanovna from criticism. Secondly, he knocked out the election trump cards from the hands of the opposition. Thirdly, I found a successful-non-conflict-candidate for the third most important post in the country. What changes the departure of Matvienko from the post of St. Petersburg mayor.
Honored Artist of Russia Alexei Devotchenko, one of the initiators of the campaign against Valentina Matvienko, who unfolded last winter after the death of children and the elderly from the snow falling from the roofs and ice, believes that no one will cry due to the departure of the “lady of the governor”. “The feasible contribution to the destruction and destruction of the city, as well as all democratic institutions, she made 100%,” he told The New Times. Devotchenko is sure that the official is not in the Council of Council, but "somewhere next to the notorious Evsyukov."
The creator of the popular Internet resource about the leaks in St. Petersburg houses “Zavaetspb.ru” Fedor Gorozhanko adheres to the same point of view. “I would like such people to go not to increase, but under the investigation,” he says. “The only thing I will regret is at the wrong time. Thanks to my activity, it was possible to achieve some shifts in the problem with the current roofs. The houses we are talking about on the site were included in the address programs. They even promised something. And from whom to ask now in winter? The governor will go to the Federation Council, vice-governor Sergeev from her team, most likely, will also leave,-sighs Gorozhanko. “And the problem of the housing and communal services, which is inflated to the limit under Matvienko, will be left without a decision.”
The collapse of the work
According to the latest matter of polls that the Social Information Agency conducts in St. Petersburg, the rating of the ruling tandem in the city first fell below 50%, and the rating of the ruling party had reached 27% (survey data from June 1–7). According to The New Times, the St. Petersburg United Russia on the eve of the unexpected proposal of the president seriously discussed how to do without the inclusion of Matvienko in the first three party lists in the December elections to the Duma and the Legislative Assembly: the negative attitude of the townspeople towards the mayor could only harm the party. So the destroyed housing and communal services system is not the only problem that the governor leaves the city and the future successor. And not for this Valentina Ivanovna is removed from St. Petersburg.
Over the past few months, activists of opposition organizations almost every week posted the posters of “Valya, fall off!”, “Valentina, repent”, “The city is tired”, etc. “Yabloko”, the Communist Party and “Fair Russia” were preparing for the elections to the State Duma and ZAKS precisely under the slogans “Peter without Matvienko!” Now the opposition will have to hastily change tactics. But so far, however, the St. Petersburg "Yabloko" and the fair Russians pretend that they won. Thus, the leader of the Petersburg “Yabloko” Maxim Reznik said that his party has already completed his election program: firstly, Matvienko leaves the Northern capital, and secondly, there will be no Gazprom skyscraper on Okht.
Without elections - nothing
“There are no eternal governors,” Matvienko said at a meeting with honorary citizens of the city on June 27. - Two terms of hard work for wear - we can say that the entire paste was squeezed out of the tube. Conscience is pure, plowed in full. ”
But in order to start working for wear in the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko will have to go through municipal elections. The fact is that the representative of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Capital in the Council is already there. And only a deputy from the district self -government (municipal district) can become the second person from the city. In total, in St. Petersburg 111 districts, and not in all the staff of deputies, is fully filled, so that they can soon be announced. The deputy of the Yekaterinhof MO “Yablonchik” Alexander Shurshev even announced the readiness to fold the mandate in order to speed up the departure of Matvienko. True, the deputy cannot guarantee that it will easily pass the vote. "
The St. Petersburg United Russia seriously discussed how to do without the inclusion of Matvienko in the first three party lists in the December election
"During the time of being in power, Matvienko tried many times to turn the situation in her favor: at least tried to knock out the city -protective theme from her main opponent, the leader of the city Socialist Revolutionaries Oksana Dmitrieva. She invited the activists of city -protection organizations to her tea, promised the leader of the" Living City "by Julia Minutina, the deputy chairman of the KGIP (committee on state control and protection. Monuments), sent to a protesting rally “Yabllennikov” (with their help, she hoped to get out of the hated Socialist Revolutionaries) of her Zamov Roman Filimonov and Igor Metelsky, who were disagreed, however, booed.
But there was no result - after all, they continued to demolish the houses with even greater intensity. In just 8 years of the reign of Matvienko in the northern capital, it was “lost”, according to the “living city”, over 100 historical buildings. The most scandalous were the construction of the Stockmann department store, the destruction of houses on Nevsky Prospekt (directly opposite the Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace) and on the Robespierre embankment, the demolition of the Preobrazhensky barracks, as well as the intention of the city authorities to enter the 396-meter-meter Tower of Gazprom on Okhta (at a permissible height of 48 meters). 
The brainchild of Matvienko could be a ring road, however, here, as they say, they "pumped up." Even the national driver, one of the first to test the quality of the room, complained about the rut. The mayor then confirmed that in some sections of the first stage the “unimportant” coating, and said that “now the roadway is finalized.” However, local motorists continue to complain, and not just on the rut, but on the formed pits: on a kind of new road you need to ride "in a motorcycle helmet."
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The main blow to the “Snow Queen”, as the inhabitants of Peter Matvienko called the last two, according to Smolny, “abnormal” winters, when under huge icicles (“vessels”, as the governor expressed) hanging from the roofs, people died. The streets unexplored, littered with snow also became the causes of an emergency (often with a fatal outcome). So, for example, 89-year-old Irina Ganelina (a well-known cardiologist, mother of the St. Petersburg teacher and historian Lev Lurie), who fell under the wheels of a snow removal machine, did not become. The mayor, tired of criticism, compared later excessively demanding citizens who constantly want something from the authorities, with patient Japanese. “Look: there was a catastrophe in Japan with serious consequences, the Japanese disciplined, calmly, do not whine, do not whimper, do not cry, one by one, goose ... And our population is so demanding,” she complained.
They will remember
Unicorn Vitaliy Milonov, who was famous for in the winter by defending Matvienko from the attacks of Oksana Dmitrieva, called the last “antichrist”, told The New Times that it is impossible to evaluate the activities of a person working as a governor on the principle of “like or not like”. “Any person has successful decisions, there are erroneous ones,” he said. - The question is in aggregate. It would be difficult to find another politician who could more or less effectively manage such the most important city as Petersburg, such a great time. ” “We were criticized by the mountain government for Okhta Center, but by and large it is not a brainchild of Matvienko,” the unicorn emphasized. “The idea was originally born and generated not in the walls of Smolny, but much further, 700 kilometers in the south.” Milonov also drew attention to the fact that Matvienko came to the city, which was in a terrible state: “Everyone knew the names of gang groups, starting from the first grade and ending with pensioners.” As for the low level of support among the population, then, according to the deputy, "there will always be those who are dissatisfied."
Director Alexander Sokurov, who was one of the initiators of the meetings of the governor with city -defenders, is very upset. “Matvienko is the first governor in Russia, which went to direct contacts with the public,” he says. “At least on urban planning problems, this is not easy, but very important work.” In his opinion, St. Petersburg is expected by strong changes, for which residents of the city are not ready. “From the moment the negotiations began, they drew attention to the fact that the demolitions became demonstrative, it is obvious that there were people who tried to show Valentina Ivanovna, who are the master in the city,” Sokurov believes. “There was a real war with the governor.” To the question of The New Times, what is the share of the probability that the governor simply played a good and evil policeman, promising the activists one, the builders - the other, the director noted that "this is a policy where the second bottom is provided." 
According to the historian Lev Lurie, Matvienko is an impenetrable person, even peppy, cheerful and capable, but on this "her positive qualities are exhausted." Lurie continues to sue the city improvement committee that accuses the mother’s death, but emphasizes that he does not experience hatred for the governor. “It is brought up by the“ Brezhnev school ”, the stability of the personnel is important to her, and subordinates with their duties or not - it is not worried about her duties. Note that they didn’t drive anyone out of Smolny, they only transferred to other positions, ”he says. “Probably, after a while we will remember Matvienko with a smile,” added Lurie. - And they, upstairs, do not matter how she works. The main thing is that she is controlled, obedient and will always do what they say to her. ” 
Ordinary Petersburgers, according to the survey conducted by The New Times, Valentina Matvienko was remembered by the desire to build an “Okhta Center”, sealing development, cutting of parks, power, costumes of fuchsia and gold frame glasses, red lips, a proposal to “bring down vessels with a laser”, a millionaire son, a millionaire, a millionaire, a millionaire, a millionaire. By quotas for bone marrow transplanting, a program of interest -free housing to state employees, the construction of Koltseva (“albeit with great violations”), because she went to Zenit matches, and the fact that “the first woman was seriously climbed into politics.”
“I won’t be bored,” said Tatyana's young mother. - I remember it to me by the destruction of the "New Holland" and the deaths of children from the fall of the INC. " On August 24, the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg will have to approve the candidacy of the new governor of the Northern capital.