Former and O. Governor Alexander Beglov was appointed first deputy presidential envoy in the North-West. His task is to represent the embassy in Moscow. A completely new position, probably designed specifically for Mr. Beglov, who successfully completed his first task - to smoothly transfer power in the city to Valentina Matvienko. This is where he really succeeded. Preparing the “platform” for the future governor, Mr.

Last Thursday, the military court of the St. Petersburg garrison put an end to the scandalous “Mginsk case” - about the beating in a military railway unit on the night of New Year 2003, first by soldiers of an officer on duty, and then, in retaliation, by officers of soldiers. The court was the first to deal with the officers, back in June of this year. The soldiers were sentenced only now. Novaya Gazeta has already reported on this story. Let's remember the point.

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”) And again, “October has already arrived.” And again, at the Imperial Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, on the eve of his birthday, in the historical hall where Derzhavin once blessed his student, the annual Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize is being awarded.

Tomorrow they will be released. On Monday evening, the administrative arrest of two young St. Petersburg residents, Sergei Grebnev and Natalya Lukovnikova, expires. Ordinary petty hooliganism, one of thousands: served 15 days and went home. For crime statistics, this is a drop in the ocean... And we would hardly have returned to the events of two weeks ago if not for the resonance that during this time not only has not subsided, but is spreading wider and wider, like ripples on water.

To be born in the same maternity hospital and in the same year as Vladimir Putin is, you see, already worth a lot. And when the country still quotes your gentlemen and Don Juans, there is nothing more to wish for. Except perhaps some kind of bonus, which, however, you can establish yourself. This is what Konstantin Melikhan did, in 2001 he founded his Porcelain Gentleman. Last week, more Russian gentlemen were awarded porcelain sculptures.

The struggle for the abolition or preservation of the “motor citizenship”, which unfolded between State Duma deputies and insurance companies, captured not only car owners, but also all other citizens. No wonder. In the end, we all, one way or another, daily encounter a multi-million army of “iron horses” - both on the streets and in the courtyards, under the windows of our own houses.

One cannot help but pay tribute to the courage of the State Duma deputies. They themselves came up with the law “On motor third party liability insurance”, they themselves slowed it down, putting everyone already insured in an interesting position, and now they claim that the law is actually correct, but it’s just written illiterately and it needs to be rewritten quickly, within a year, and you , gentlemen, for now, somehow...