Life is becoming more and more extreme. Even the weather adopts the hard style. Even on Monday morning, there were puddles in the yard and the thermometer showed almost plus 1. But by evening the temperature dropped to minus 16, and we found ourselves in the grip of real Siberian frosts. Cyclone to anticyclone... in the end - a big minus Already on January 17, in the east of the Leningrad region, the temperature dropped to minus 25–28 degrees.

The reason for the appearance of the bill “On the use of Palace Square during mass events,” which was proposed by the deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Alexey Kovalev, is obvious. This is the furious debate surrounding the idea of ​​holding the Golden Angel film festival on Palace Square in July this year. It is too early to say that the dispute has been put to rest. Nevertheless, St.

As we prepare for the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, the first scandals are brewing The first working meeting on preparations for the 2006 G8 summit under Russia's chairmanship will take place in Moscow today. The meeting will take place in the eclectic Moscow mansion of Arseny Morozov, specially reconstructed for this occasion.

Victor Sheinis, the patriarch of Russian parliamentarism, arrived in St. Petersburg. People's Deputy of Russia in 1990–93, one of the authors of the Russian Constitution, one of the creators of Russian electoral legislation, State Duma deputy in 1993–1999, presents to his fellow countrymen his just published book “The Rise and Fall of Parliament: Crucial Years in Russian Politics (1985–1993).” On Tuesday it was discussed by St.

A monument was erected to homeless people who died in the cold on the Road of Life An unusual event took place the day before yesterday at the exit from St. Petersburg along the Ryabovskoye Highway. Surprised motorists slowed down at the sign marking the administrative border of the city on the Neva, creating a traffic jam that did not resolve for about an hour. You really don't see this every day.

Br-rr-r-r-r This January's weather has played out like clockwork: if it's Epiphany, then here's the frost. You asked - you received it! Well, everyone is young in the winter cold, but not everyone is euphoric about the sharp drop in mercury. Many city and federal departments are concerned and even alarmed by the reign of real whiplash (as the coldest month of the year has been called since ancient times in Rus'). Of course: in the coming days, the average daily air temperature in St.

The whole world is excited by news about unfortunate people who died from terrible bird flu. Many fear that in the near future it will reach St. Petersburg. Some even stopped eating chicken and eggs just in case. Yesterday our correspondent visited the largest poultry farm in Europe, located not far from Sinyavin - in the village of Priladozhsky, Kirov district. The safety measures taken against chicken disease are amazing.