Yesterday it was exactly one year since the St. Petersburg executive power began an attack on small businesses, adopting the well-known resolution No. 1885, expelling small retail trade from public transport stops. Attempts to challenge it in the Charter Court ended in the saddest way... for the court itself, which was actually dispersed.

“In August, Valentina Matvienko promised us a significant increase in wages - and we rejoiced like children. And today it turns out that someone will indeed receive more, but many employees will even have to pay extra so that they do not lose money. And some may even have to be laid off. In general, all the promises turned out to be pure populism,” said the head of one of the kindergartens as she left the Mariinsky Palace.

Nastya Egorova, 18 years old, malignant brain tumor. Nastya fell ill in August 2004. The girl has already undergone two operations, a course of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. To completely remove the tumor, a third operation and another course of radiation therapy are needed. Nastya lives in Vsevolozhsk, so she must be treated in hospitals in St. Petersburg at her own expense (the Regional Health Department refused to pay).

Last Thursday, the 268th anniversary of the Vasileostrovsky district was solemnly celebrated. Once upon a time, at the proposal of the “commission on the stone structure of St. Petersburg,” Empress Anna Ioannovna approved the names for five parts of the city. Three of them - Vasileostrovskaya, Admiralteyskaya and Moskovskaya - have survived to this day. However, today they are called districts, this became so almost two centuries after they acquired their original names.

The fight against infill development and resistance to illegal evictions from supposedly unsafe buildings in the city center are becoming increasingly widespread. Outraged citizens collect signatures for appeals to dozens of authorities, donate to conduct alternative examinations of the condition of their homes, hold rallies, and engage in litigation. Such a confrontation can last for years, and the chance of winning a case against high officials in our court is negligible.

At the beginning of the week, the head of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, German Gref, named six regions that won the competition for the right to create special economic zones. (There were many applicants: 72 applications from 47 regions were considered.) St. Petersburg is among the winners.

– And yet, if we talk about the Transparency International study, what, in your opinion, is the degree of conditionality of its results? In Russia they took bribes, they take them, they will take them... The results of the Transparency International study on the level of corruption in countries (Novaya talked about it in issue 79) were widely discussed in the Russian media all last week. Let us remind you that our country took 126th place out of 159 in the “corruption rating”.

On Monday, November 21, 2005, an eighteen-year-old boy, Denis Mitrokhin, jumped from the top floor of a house on Entuziastov Avenue. The tragedy itself did not attract the attention of either law enforcement agencies or the public. Well: children and teenagers voluntarily die in our city almost every day. In this case, however, the reasons that prompted him to jump from the fifteenth floor are unique.

Two decades ago, the city was preparing to celebrate the 275th anniversary of the great Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov. Back in June 1985, the Leningrad City Executive Committee adopted a corresponding resolution. We decided to solemnly open a monument to the famous compatriot on November 21, 1986 (on the anniversary day) on the Mendeleevskaya Line, hold a ceremonial meeting of the Academy of Sciences, and organize many other events.

The end of the last October week took place throughout the country under the sign of the struggle against the housing policy of the authorities. A wave of protest swept from city to city, from region to region: Komi, Izhevsk, Astrakhan... On Saturday, the Moscow opposition rallied, yesterday - residents of the Moscow region, and a little earlier, on Friday, from their Perm comrades, who gave the start to the Week of Active Actions, St. Petersburg residents took up the baton.

An attempt by deputies from the “Democratic Faction”, “Party of Life” and “Rodina” to find out on what basis the city government held a gala concert for Mother’s Day on November 27 together with “United Russia” was, as expected, unsuccessful. It is not difficult to guess which faction refused to support the request. The party in power behind the scenes of one event People were invited to the concert at Oktyabrsky with tickets that said “The Government of St.

The international community has been seething for a week now, while the Russian community is just beginning to shake up. Yesterday, the first, small protest rally against changes in legislation on public and non-profit organizations took place in the northern capital.

Students of St. Petersburg State University, where Timur Kacharava, who was killed on November 13, studied, are collecting signatures for an appeal to the authorities. More than two thousand people have already signed up. On Friday, December 2, the letter will be sent to President (and St. Petersburg State University graduate) Vladimir Putin, Governor Valentina Matvienko, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Vadim Tyulpanov, Presidential Envoy for the North-West Ilya Klebanov, and St.

The court found Gavrilov guilty of negligence, and not of abuse of power, as the prosecution insisted. And yet he lost his freedom. The officer will have to spend five years in a general regime colony. And for another three years he will be deprived of the right to hold any positions in the organizational and administrative sphere. However, the current court verdict in this tragic story is not the end yet.