Finally it all happened. Passengers of the Kirovsko-Vyborg line suffered for eight and a half years, overcoming the section of erosion along the top, on transfer bars. And now their torment is over. On Saturday evening, the president of the country personally connected the broken line, riding the metro from the Lesnaya station to the Ploshchad Muzhestva station.

“Yes, I actually heard the word “thallium” for the first time here!.. - Kostya rolls his eyes. “And I haven’t seen him in my life... How should I know?..” ...From the Finlyandsky Station along Botkinskaya, a little deeper into the courtyard. Department of Military Field Therapy of the Military Medical Academy, first floor, intensive care unit. Five guys from the Far East have been lying here for two weeks.

On the last day of June - Wednesday the 30th - a grandiose artistic and political event will take place in St. Petersburg. Masters of the northern capital's brush will come out with easels and posters to the square in front of the Mariinsky Palace to express their protest to the city authorities under the windows of the Legislative Assembly.

The situation with the alternative civil service in Russia was exactly as in the old joke: “Tell me, do I have the right? - You have. - Can I? “You can’t!” Nevertheless, the constitutional right to alternative service has existed for 11 years - since 1993. But there is no law describing the specific mechanism for implementing this right. Or rather, it wasn’t until recently. Such a law was adopted only this year.

The day after tomorrow the Legislative Assembly will consider a candidate for the vacant position of judge of the Statutory Court. This candidate is Lyudmila Kuleshova, nominated by Governor Valentina Matvienko. A vacancy in the Charter Court opened up after Lyudmila Eskin was deprived of her position due to the “housing issue.” The Qualification Board considered her actions incompatible with the status of a judge. Who is now offered in return?

Ex-vice-governor and ex-gubernatorial candidate Anna Markova was appointed vice-president of the St. Petersburg banking house, which is extremely close to the current city administration. Well, on the one hand, this confirms the well-known thesis that the best way to deal with the opposition is to distribute positions. But, on the other hand... maybe those who called the competition between Valentina Matvienko and Anna Markova “the fight of Nanai girls” were not so far from the truth?