Yesterday the walls of the Mariinsky Palace were unusually crowded: more than 300 people came out to the square with posters and banners. This time the St. Petersburg creative intelligentsia protested. If writers and architects staged a rally, perhaps all is not well in the city?.. It seems so. Creative unions rarely hold meetings: this is not their path. But in this case, remaining silent means dying. After all, we are talking about a roof over your head. The government of St.

“What do you want? Get out of the construction site!” - “For mercy, what kind of construction? This is a residential yard! Here’s a man who has an apartment in that house...” – “What else – an apartment! I’m telling you: leave the area!” The guard is trying to force us out of the gate. The dirt is incredible, the mat stands like a rocker... On the left they are digging a ditch with two shovels, on the right a worker is using a hose to wash out a cement-stained bucket...

This money is enough for twelve trips there and eleven trips back. Instead of free travel on public transport, St. Petersburg pensioners will receive 230 rubles (and from the New Year, the fare will increase to 10 rubles). The Legislative Assembly adopted the corresponding amendment yesterday. And that's still good. Initially, it was assumed that compensation would amount to only 180 rubles per month.

Yesterday, at the trial of the murder of State Duma deputy Galina Starovoitova in the City Court of St. Petersburg, lawyers continued to actively present arguments for the innocence of their clients. As usual, relatives got involved. The defense chose several directions of attack: to discredit as much as possible the main witness for the prosecution - the cousin of the defendant Yuri Kolchin's wife, Yana, whose information is not made public for reasons of his safety.

Anti-flare vortex The executive branch has once again declared war on the stalls. Trade pavilions at bus and trolleybus stops, near metro stations - they are all going to be demolished. On Monday, the owners of disgraced small retail stores held a rally near Smolny... The protest rally near the city administration building is not the first: entrepreneurs recently picketed the Mariinsky Palace.

Brutal filibusters, dashing smugglers, risk, delight, romance... It’s beautiful in books. In life, everything turns out to be much more mundane and darker. And sometimes it’s funnier, depending on who you choose. The other day, the prosecutor's office of the Vyborg district of the Leningrad region began an investigation into another criminal case regarding smuggling. The crime scene is Vyborg customs, international road checkpoint “Svetogorsk”.

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”) Sealing misfortunes of local significance become a common problem. This time the Union of Writers of St.