The main points of the St. Petersburg summer-2023: from Stereoleto to Prigogine's funeral
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The holidays of war and state patriotism, forums for “friendly” countries and the roads constantly blocked because of them, “scarlet sails” in the evening of the military rebellion and the fall of the Empire Evgeny Prigozhin, protest pickets and exhibitions and the funeral of the creator of the PMC “Wagner”.
The saturated summer of 2023 in St. Petersburg is an illustration of a city seeking to live and enjoy warmth and sun during the war, penetrating into all spheres of life and leisure. "Paper" in the photographs recalls the main events of three months of city life.
Stereoleto festival: Lev Leshchenko performed one of the headliners
Meeting with Igor Strelkov in the “foliage”: the police tried to disrupt her, and in less than two weeks later the former “Minister of Defense” of the self -proclaimed DPR was arrested in the case of calls for extremism
Picket in support of Elena Milashina: Students of the Journalism faculty of St. Petersburg State University at the presentation of diplomas called the new newspaper employee the face of a Russian journalist in Chechnya
Prigozhin's memory campaign: mercenaries and citizens carried flowers, banners and sledgehammer to the “PMC Wagner Center”, removing the creator of the PMC “Wagner” who died in the plane craftsman
Prigozhin's funeral: the authorities and the “Wagnerians” conducted a “special funeral operation” to distract journalists from the secret farewell ceremony