On December 15, a round table was held in the St. Petersburg House of Journalists dedicated to the results of the elections to the city Legislative Assembly. At the same time, an exhibition of propaganda materials was held there. Both were devoted to a specific topic related to the elections - “black PR”, “dirty” political technologies, which first loudly declared themselves during the previous election campaign of 1998.

Before the official results of the elections to the Legislative Assembly had been announced, the discussion of a favorite topic began again - will the governor go for a “third term”? Will he, with the new composition of the Legislative Assembly, be able to introduce amendments to the city charter that will allow him to run for mayor again? But...

From December 15 to 18, at the Rodina Cinema Center, the St. Petersburg Cinema Museum is showing four programs of short films by Czech director Jan Svankmajer in the Film Encyclopedia cycle. He is called a classic of surrealism, and his works in cinema are called original and experimental. Texts about him are full of philosophical terms and provoking definitions - paranoid dream logic, black grotesque, mystification, shamanism et cetera.

Today and tomorrow at the Opera and Ballet Theater of the Conservatory. Rimsky-Korsakov will host concerts by the world famous arranger and composer Michel Legrand. This past year, the author of the music for the films “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” “A Man and a Woman,” and “The Girls from Rochefort” turned seventy. And St. Petersburg became one of the cities included in the route of his anniversary world tour. The conservatory hall was not chosen by chance.

Summing up the results of the elections to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, summing up everything unflattering that was said about this, all the discontent and disappointments, it is appropriate to ask the question: is there any benefit from these elections? The answer is completely obvious. Undoubtedly. Yes. Eat. Probably, in this case we should not talk about benefits for the voter. The voter is a deeply optional problem. His interests are a poorly understood thing.