The Ministry of Education has conceived a new reform - this time of higher education. Its essence is that programs should be rebuilt in a Western manner. The volume of education should be taken into account not in traditional academic hours, but in credits. A loan is a kind of cost of a course taken, a subjective assessment of its significance in the full cycle of education in a given specialty. To earn a higher education, you need to earn a certain number of credits.

The working group on information disputes under the city election commission took on illegal campaigning in the media. Prior to this, warnings had already been issued to three printed publications - Komsomolskaya Pravda, Petrovsky Kuryer and the municipal newspaper published in Rzhevka, for the fact that they appeared clearly propaganda materials, the publication of which, as is known, is prohibited until November 8.

These days, the international conference “Russia and the Arab World. Islam and Orthodoxy - dialogue and mutual influence of two cultures.” It was planned ahead of time and timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the Independent Russian-Arab Cultural Center, but today, in connection with recent events, the topic of a purely scientific conference takes on a completely different meaning... Everything related to the Arab world is perceived differently today than before.

Novaya's columnist Boris Vishnevsky talks about why the dictatorship doesn't know how to deal with crises medical workers have died in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (*according to the “Memory List”) One of the former hostages of the theater center in Moscow, St. Petersburger Denis Panteleev, who would have turned 27 in a month, was buried yesterday at the Bolshe-Okhtinskoye cemetery. We mourn...

After the tragic events in Moscow, the police began a total check of the Chechens living in the capital. Something similar, but on a smaller scale, is happening in St. Petersburg. But, although checks of Caucasians have become more frequent, representatives of the North Caucasian diasporas unanimously claim that there are no anti-Caucasian sentiments in St. Petersburg.