The gubernatorial campaign is in full swing, and the campaign for elections to the State Duma is approaching. What is already beginning to affect what is happening in St. Petersburg...

The timber holding company Ilim Pulp, it seems, no longer hopes to extinguish the scandal that broke out due to documents discovered during searches at the company’s central office. Ilim Pulp lawyer Azyazov withdrew his earlier complaint to the Dzerzhinsky Federal Court of the Central District of St.

All last Tuesday, passengers accustomed to using the commercial route of bus No. 175-A, which runs from Grazhdanka to Vasilievsky Island, waited for it completely unsuccessfully. There were no buses for unknown reasons. What was wrong became clear only the next day. It turns out that they tried to... simply steal the buses. Unfortunately, we have already become accustomed to car thefts and perceive them as an inevitable part of the surrounding reality.

Medical scandals in the city are growing like an avalanche. First, “medicinal”: seven months ago, the purchase of drugs under the state order system was transferred from the responsibility of the Health Committee to the Committee for Economic Development and Trade (KERPPiT). As a result of these upheavals, over the past six months, tenders for the supply of medicines to the city have been virtually curtailed. Pharmacy shelves gaped empty, patients threatened to riot...

The main problem that political strategists have faced in recent years is related to attracting the electorate to fulfill their direct civic responsibilities. A vaccine that will help cope with the widespread apoliticality that has afflicted almost the entire Russian population has not yet been invented. And every year it becomes more and more difficult to lure people to the polls.

Signature sheets in support of Anna Markova's nomination will be checked again: now in the City Court. That is, of course, the procedure is not called verification, but clarification of the truth, but this does not change the essence of the matter.