The Greek tanker Stemnitsa, which arrived at the port of Primorsk on January 28, caused discord between Finland and Russia. According to the Finnish side, the tanker, which loaded 110 thousand tons of Russian oil, is not an ice-class vessel, but is only suitable for use in open waters. Our neighbors are not even reassured by the fact that the Stemnitsa is accompanied by the icebreaker Captain Sorokin.

We have written about this topic more than once. Unfortunately, more than once. And, unfortunately, you will probably have to return to it again and again. In our country and in our city, extreme racism and neo-Nazism are loudly proclaiming themselves. Fascist youths paint Nazi slogans on the walls, and their more “advanced” comrades organize marches and pogroms. Our newspaper wrote about this more than once. First, about mass gatherings of shaven-headed young men.

The United Petersburg bloc continues to boycott the work of the Legislative Assembly, but its leader Yuri Rydnik is still forced to participate in meetings. True, not in the Zaksovsky ones, but in the judicial ones. The City Court has begun considering the complaint of Mr.

At the end of last year, another “tobacco war” began in Russia. Starting in the Volga region, within a month it reached Moscow and St. Petersburg. The reason for the start of the “war” was allegedly the fact of the creation of a certain Ural-Volga region association of tobacco wholesalers, which united several wholesale companies from Samara, Tolyatti and Orenburg.

The passions surrounding last year's road tragedy during the visit of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov to St. Petersburg will not subside. On January 31, the cassation board for criminal cases of the military court of the Leningrad Military District again overturned the acquittal of the Military Court of the St. Petersburg Garrison in relation to the 23-year-old military driver Alfred Kaliamov.

This message may sound a little strange to some. Nevertheless, it is a fact: from February 3 to 8, JSC Lenenergo is holding a “road show”, in other words, a foreign presentation of its activities. The energy company's Eurotour takes place in Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. So after the first February presentation at home (since February 1, in St. Petersburg, as is known, electricity and heat tariffs have been increased by an average of 12%), it turns out that this is the second.