No later than three months later, the procedure for holding public hearings and the procedure for taking into account the opinions of residents when deciding issues on new construction (including the notorious “infill development”) must be established by city law. This is the essence of the decision of the Charter Court, which on Friday recognized that the administration of St. Petersburg did not have the right to independently establish this order.

- You know, they love realism most of all, but for them Shishkin is yes. Malevich? No, we don’t have albums with his drawings on our shelves. The fact is that they really like to copy and, as a rule, copy what is simpler. And we are afraid: when they see the squares and triangles, they will immediately begin to copy these wonderful paintings, without understanding their significance,” says Vladimir Barsukov, head of the art studio of the psychiatric hospital. P.P. Kashchenko.

It took the court of the Leningrad Military District four years to consider the case on charges of several murders of Major Grigory Malyarov. The son of the former deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District and the former son-in-law of the former city prosecutor received 25 years in a maximum security colony with the deprivation of all military ranks.

On Friday evening, the St. Petersburg - Astrakhan train took to the south several dozen Lyuli gypsies (they are also called “Tajik”), who had lived all summer in a camp near the Dachnoe railway platform on the border of the Kirov and Moskovsky districts. They lived mostly illegally, without registration. And yet the expulsion cannot be called forced - all the Roma seem to have voluntarily agreed to leave the northern capital. Moreover, some of them bought train tickets themselves.

The scandal surrounding the Nakhimov Naval School, which had died down for a while, is flaring up with renewed vigor. On September 24, the federal court of the Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg canceled the decisions previously taken by the district prosecutor’s office to refuse to initiate a criminal case into the beatings of three Nakhimov students by fellow students.

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”) There are different types of science fiction writers: classic ones - like Robert Sheckley, and not so much - like Milorad Pavic.

Another high-profile scandal is brewing in the long-suffering 41st electoral district of St. Petersburg, where by-elections to the city Legislative Assembly took place on September 21. According to the voting results, Colonel Vyacheslav Makarov, a teacher at the Mozhaisky Military Space Academy, won in the district.