The National Bolsheviks besieged two capitals the day before yesterday. But if in Moscow the Latvian consulate was “surrounded” and everything went off quite loudly, then in St. Petersburg the employees of the Lithuanian consulate looked at the National Bolsheviks from the windows, and it turned out to be an ordinary peaceful picket.

The Cypriot authorities are extraditing to Russia the St. Petersburg businessman Valery Meshanov, who has been put on the international wanted list. Law enforcement agencies suspect the director of the subsidiary company “Foreign Trade Company RD”, a “daughter” of “Russian Diesel”, of fraud, as a result of which he successfully “smuggled” about 40 million of budget money offshore.

Oh, what indescribable bliss lies in the grand opening. This brilliance of news-hungry television cameras, this ghostly ribbon rustling in the work-hardened hands of the name, these magnificent heartfelt speeches and the feeling of overwhelming joy... On October 1, a part of Sadovaya Street was solemnly opened in St. Petersburg: from Sennaya Square to Voznesensky Prospekt.

No matter how much the St. Petersburg “Yabloko” members swaggered, no matter how much they raised their hands to the sky, exclaiming about their independence and reluctance to live according to the orders of the Kremlin or the same Smolny, but, apparently, this is not fate. After painful deliberations, the St. Petersburg regional branch of the Russian democratic party Yabloko made a fateful decision - to support “candidate No. 1” in the second round.

All week Peter lives under the sign of rest and travel. On Tuesday, the northern capital hosted the IX Congress of the Russian Union of Travel Industry and celebrated the 10th anniversary of the PCT (they say that at first it was planned to hold the celebrations in Morocco, but then they decided it would be better in St. Petersburg)... These days, the international tourism exhibition "Invetex" and the forum "Tourism and Resorts" are being held in Gavan...

Insurance companies and car owners froze in agonizing anticipation of judgment day. On October 8, the State Duma will consider a bill that will repeal or not the law on compulsory motor third-party liability insurance, which came into force on July 1. Motorists were so frightened by the unpredictable consequences of this cancellation that they practically stopped insuring themselves. Insurance companies, in turn, were scared by this scare.

The thugs who killed the Azerbaijani are accused of inciting ethnic hatred. A little more than a year has passed since the memorable massacre on Aircraft Designers Avenue, after which it became officially known: skinheads in St. Petersburg not only hooligan, but also kill. Let us remind you that 59-year-old watermelon seller Mamed Mamedov was killed on the evening of September 13, two hours after a football match at the Petrovsky stadium.

Novaya Gazeta has repeatedly turned to history with the transfer of buildings occupied by the Vavilov All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Growing and the Russian State Historical Archive to the Presidential Administration. On October 8, the Supreme Arbitration Court of Russia will consider the issue of transferring the VIR buildings to the jurisdiction of presidential officials...