The passing year is remembered by many as the year of unprecedented unity between Russia and the Western world. A large European family, new horizons of cooperation, the upcoming accession to the WTO, the presidency of the G8 in 2006, grandiose oil and gas projects on the shores of the Baltic and the Barents Sea...

To change the federal law “On the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation” - yesterday the city parliament celebrated its last meeting of 2005 with such a legislative initiative. The meaning of the deputy proposal is this: the Constitutional Court should be geographically located not in Moscow, but in St. Petersburg. On Tuesday, the State Duma Council, as you know, supported the request of the St.

A week and a half ago, Novaya Gazeta published material about another episode of St. Petersburg raiding (“Our corner is never too small for us,” N 92, 12/8–11/2005). It was about an attempt to seize the Petersburg Corner restaurant, where a clash occurred between representatives of a semi-shadow commercial structure (with a security unit) and employees of the Organized Crime Control Department, reinforced by SOBR soldiers.

Yesterday, the scandalous case of Yuri Shutov reached the finish line. It took two days to hear the last words of a dozen and a half defendants. The four-year process, which is record-breaking in terms of time and intensity, will end in February next year.

The President of Russia is one of the main characters at the exhibition of paintings by mentally ill people at the Blok Museum Every year, the art therapy department of the psychiatric hospital of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, much better known as the Buckle, puts the work of its patients on public display. So it is now. Treatment with art actually helps mentally ill people achieve harmony with the world around them.

Clarification In the first quarter of 2004, an article was published about an environmental assessment of the construction of an IKEA hypermarket in the Leningrad region. We hereby inform readers that the information disseminated in this article about Boris Borisovich Lednev does not correspond to reality.

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”) Vyacheslav Shilov, a famous St.

These very days, people deprived of shelter are moving from the well-known Nochlezhka shelter on Sinopskaya embankment to a new building on Borovaya Street. However, only half of the homeless will find a roof over their heads at the new address. It is currently unknown what the fate of the others will be. A business center is opening in Nochlezhka. Will the homeless go beyond the 101st kilometer? The night stay house on Sinopskaya embankment has been operating since 1997.

What are rebel pets for the university elite - pride and pain or annoyance and fear? And for all of us?.. Today is forty days since the death of Timur Kacharava. A 20-year-old student of the Faculty of Philosophy, whose murder shook the whole city. There will be a wake, silent grief of those gathered at the site of the tragedy. Pathetic angry speeches are for other areas... They say history cannot be repeated.

The trial in the case of the “runaway train”, which escaped from the repair depot at the Baltic station on November 11, 2002, which lasted for almost two years, was finally completed this week. Let us remember that during that tragedy, under the wheels of a train that jumped onto the passenger platform without a rudder or sails, four St. Petersburg residents were killed and several more people were seriously injured.