July 28 in blogs on PublicPost

Bloggers share their impressions of watching the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Ivan Starikov arrives completely delighted with what he saw, and Lev Salamatov, on the contrary, claims that the whole holiday was ruined by “one couple of people”...

Maxim Lukyanov publishes a story about his grandfather V. Mutin, his friend Bear and the priest Khundyaev about how they pulled a huge turnip together.

What's going on in Tomsk now? Have asthmatics, children, and the elderly been evacuated from the city? Have enterprises reduced their emissions? A few questions about Tomsk from Oleg Kozyrev and a video message from an ecologist.

Citizens of Tajikistan held their rally at Gostiny Dvor in St. Petersburg. What made them go outside? Why didn’t the police disperse the Tajik rally? All this is on Ravil Bashirov’s blog on PublicPost.

The head of the administration of Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Kondrashov decided to enter into a dialogue with angry citizens. Read what he responded to the demands of striking residents to fire the deputy head of the city administration and stop illegal refusals to approve rallies.