Ask any resident of Russia: “What day is April 22?” - and in the old days, anyone, without hesitation, would have answered: “Well, of course, Lenin’s birthday.” Not so today. According to the results of a survey just conducted by the Apriori Center for Strategic Research, 15% of Russians do not even know who Lenin is... Well, okay, we’re not talking about him.

Throughout the last years of Vladimir Yakovlev's reign, with enviable regularity - at least once a month - suddenly, for no reason at all, they began to say that he was about to be either removed and imprisoned, or simply transferred to another job. In the end, that’s what happened - they transferred. Now similar rumors are beginning to swarm around the figure of Valentina Matvienko.

The intensity of passions around compaction development is not decreasing one degree. In the young month of April, ceilings collapse and cracks appear along the walls, and the fire of mature “popular anger” engulfs the entire city, from the center to the outskirts. The latest mass protests took place in the seemingly quiet Primorsky district.

Traditionally, before the start of the summer season, Smolny increases fares on commuter trains. The last time this happened was in the spring of last year - by a joint order of the administration of St. Petersburg and the governor of the Leningrad region, starting from March 15, the fare was increased to 4 rubles for each zone. Now, from May 11, you will have to pay 5 rubles. However, this decision will come into force only on May 11.

The scandal associated with the February hunger strike in St. Petersburg prisons and colonies does not subside to this day - it was too loud. Both sides - both prisoners and the heads of the prison department - now and then recall those events with mutually exclusive statements. Prisoners informally claim that the case is not over yet, and the inhumane conditions that allegedly were the root cause of the riot have not changed at all.