Last Tuesday, the Kuibyshev Federal Court of the Central District of St. Petersburg held the first hearing in the sensational case of the eviction of the avant-garde creative group “Mitki” from the part of the attic adjacent to their art workshop. The meeting was short-lived - the process ended literally fifteen minutes after it began. The next meeting is scheduled for June 15.

Chinatown could be ruined by referendum Still on the plan... A group of opponents of the Chinatown project on the shores of the Gulf of Finland (now usually called the “Baltic Pearl”) continues to try to organize a referendum that would block the vigorous activity of the St. Petersburg administration in implementing the project.

On May 26 and 27, cinematic rarities will be shown at the Rodina Cinema Center Oleg Kovalov “An artist should boast not of the intention with which he creates his work, but only of the quality of the thing he creates,” said Thomas Aquinas.

On June 30, a verdict will be pronounced in the St. Petersburg City Court in the case of the murder of Galina Starovoitova. But this is unlikely to be the end of the matter. The defendants' lawyers talk about the possibility of appealing the verdict not only in the Supreme Court, but also in the European Court of Human Rights. It will probably come to the point that Yuri Kolchin and his comrades will be declared “political prisoners,” as they are trying to do in relation to the deputy of the St.

The last school bell was marked by two all-Russian protests. St. Petersburg did not remain aloof from both First, professors and associate professors gathered for their rally on Universitetskaya Embankment, protesting against the reform of the Academy of Sciences.

The war that had subsided between the second and third authorities - the city administration and the Charter Court - flared up again Valentina Matvienko sent a letter to the Supreme Court, where she stated that the court “is independently expanding its competence without legal grounds” and therefore the governor and government of St. Petersburg “no longer consider it possible to send their representatives to participate in the consideration by the Statutory Court of St.

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”) Officials and their children can crush people with complete impunity Nikolay Burov Last weekend in Moscow, the son of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, Alexander, crushed a 68-year-old woman to death.

Smolny has now chosen a peculiar vector of loyalty in relation to the “St. Petersburg civil resistance”. Protests organized by representatives of the ASG are currently approved by the Committee on Legality, Order and Security of the St. Petersburg government only as an exception.

An encounter with the beautiful can be dangerous, just like an encounter with the terrible. Earlier this week, at the Nabokov Museum, a meeting was held with the famous Italian psychiatrist, chief physician of the Mental Health Department of the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital in Florence, a leading specialist in the field of psychology of art, Graziella Magherini.

“On the Riga seaside the air is fresh, the wind of my hopes wanders there”... Tender sea, golden dunes. A cozy idyll of romantic youth... But lately all they have been saying is: Riga, Riga. And – no idyll... We continue the series of essays “Baltic 2005”. I am against it! Riga greeted us with another rally. Again – for the rights of the Russian-speaking population.