This Monday, a St. Petersburg jury made a decision in the case of an attack on two Lyuli gypsies with two young children near the Dachnoye railway platform last September. According to the prosecution, the attack was carried out by a group of riotous youths out of a sense of national hostility. And it ended, as we know, with the murder of a seven-year-old girl and serious injuries to a five-year-old girl. Law enforcement agencies managed to detain seven participants in the attack.

Last week in St. Petersburg, another reputable businessman, Oleg Novikov, died at the hands of killers. In the past, he headed the SOBR of the North-West Customs Administration. Law enforcement agencies believe that this murder may be related to the ongoing internal investigation of the North-West Technical University. And the basis for this, in turn, was information about a large smuggling channel at the Vyborg customs.

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 practically no places left within the city that have not been affected by elite construction.

Vladimir Yakovlev is sixty today. He most likely celebrates his anniversary in a good mood. And why, exactly, should he be bad? Although one of the common political myths of recent times is that Vladimir Putin allegedly cannot forgive Vladimir Yakovlev for the defeat of Anatoly Sobchak in the 1996 elections. However, the “unforgiven” Vladimir Anatolyevich continues to successfully move up the career ladder to this day.

“Take out insurance – and sleep well!..” The fact that without a developed insurance market we cannot enter a civilized society is clear to almost anyone. But about a restful sleep... “Novaya” has repeatedly talked about various aspects of one or another insurance sector: transport, medicine; a separate topic is risk insurance during shared construction... And today we will try to consider a specific case and find out: how reliable is this protection - an insurance policy?

We have told about this story more than once. The cold war of residents with seals on Shostakovich Street, 5, has been going on since last year. This week it went into a hot stage, taking the form of hand-to-hand combat. The developer, the LEK Estate company, did not wait for the court hearing scheduled for January 28th.

Recently, Novaya Gazeta talked about the city administration’s intentions to remove pavilions for small retail trade from public transport stops. The authorities' initiative sparked collective protests from entrepreneurs, who held three rallies in three weeks.