The upcoming changes in the management of the state oil and gas company Slavneft - a meeting of shareholders and the election of a new president of the Oil and Gas Company are scheduled for May 13 (see Novaya Gazeta, 04/25/02) - can greatly affect the fuel market of St. Petersburg. It is known that it was in our region that Slavneft has been especially intensively promoted in recent months.

In the stories told in the first two parts of the material (NG Nos. 23, 29), judicial troubles ended in loss of work. This time we will talk about events when criminal cases were nevertheless initiated against St. Petersburg judges. Of all the St. Petersburg judges, only two were in the dock. One of them was completely acquitted, the second was found guilty only of official negligence, and much more serious charges of accepting bribes were no longer necessary.

The work of the prosecutor's office to bring the regulatory acts of the constituent entity of the federation into compliance with federal legislation left the journalists who gathered for the press conference of the city prosecutor Ivan Sydoruk indifferent.

Even the most reliable forecasts do not always come true. This is exactly what happened with the law on the mandatory election in the regions of at least half of the deputies from party lists. After a triumphant vote in the State Duma, the law was unexpectedly “wrapped up” in the Federation Council. And if the elections to the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly are held in December 2002, there will most likely not be any party lists there.

It’s understandable that Russians have a special relationship with Pushkin. That’s why many aspire to Pushkinogorye in the Pskov region. Who has not been seen in these places over the 80 years of the reserve’s existence! It had to be restored from ruins twice: first after revolutionary fires, then after the war. And this work is still ongoing. Apparently, it was not in vain that the owners of Russian estates splurged on large servants to maintain extensive parks... Now tourists are welcome here.

On April 27, the editor of Novaya Gazeta in St. Petersburg was interrogated at the prosecutor's office This happened in connection with a criminal case initiated on March 19 by the Office of the Prosecutor General for the Northwestern Federal District. And it, in turn, is connected with the publication by Novaya Gazeta on January 21 of this year of the article “Tagged Prosecutors.” The article talked about the activities of the city prosecutor Ivan Sydoruk and his deputy Boris Salmaksov.

Several “ecological” events took place in St. Petersburg over the past week. No sooner had the forum of the Baltic countries come to an end, where, among other things, they talked about ports, oil and pollution of the Gulf of Finland, a scientific conference of Roshydromet began.