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”) As a child, I dreamed of being a janitor. I really liked how they shoveled the snow with a huge wooden shovel, broke the ice with a crowbar and swept away puddles with a broom.

Lately we've only been hearing about skinheads and other neo-Nazi ultras. There is no need to repeat what ideas the shaven-headed fighters “for ethnic purity” preach and in what ways they put their ideas into practice. However, if you take a closer look at these groups, you may find out that they are not always driven by zoological hatred of “foreigners.” Sometimes, without even realizing it, they can act as an instrument of tough political struggle.

One and a half to two years ago, criminal cases against the vice-governors of St. Petersburg multiplied like mushrooms after rain, but over time they were slowly forgotten about. And therefore, the news that the criminal prosecution of the former head of the Finance Committee had entered a fundamentally new phase sounded like a bolt from the blue.

The week began under the sign of two loud statements by Valentina Matvienko. One - about the planned increase in fees for the maintenance and current repairs of housing stock, the second - about the advisability of canceling most of the benefits enjoyed by public transport passengers... The current housing fee (in the part that does not apply to the services of natural monopolies) was established by a city law adopted in December 2000.

Whatever one may say, the Baltic remains one of the most polluted seas in the world. These words of Elisa Peter, one of the leaders of the World Conservation Fund (WWF) program, became the refrain of the international forum “Baltic Sea Day”. From Monday, March 22, to this day, more than 400 of its participants from one and a half dozen countries were looking for answers to the question - how to help our common sea.

Yesterday, a team of nine Russian climbers, four of whom are from St. Petersburg, flew to Nepal. To conquer the peak of Mount Jannu in the region of the Eastern Himalayas - the 38th highest point on the planet. Although these 7,710 meters have been climbed many times by the world's best athletes, the north face of Jeannou still remains unclimbed.

At the beginning of the year (NG No. 3, 01/19/04) we already talked about how the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against Yuri Belyaev under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - “incitement of national, racial or religious hatred.” What is connected with the publication of Belyaev’s articles in the already mentioned newspaper “Our Review”, and not now, but a long time ago - in the fall of 2001.