I remember when they announced the creation of a strange entity called the “Belarusian-Russian Union,” many were interested: “What, now it will be possible to travel to Belarus without a visa?” And I had to explain that there was never any visa regime between these countries... And now almost ten years pass. The Supreme State Council of the Union State met in the Konstantinovsky Palace. This meeting was announced in all news reports as follows: Belarusians and Russians were given equal rights.

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”) If you don't want to join the army, don't go. Your own will, your own right: since 2002, the federal law “On Alternative Civil Service” (AGS) allows you to choose another one over the military strap. Theoretically less severe, but longer lasting.

A new conflict is brewing on St. Petersburg roads. Some companies providing passenger transportation refused to recognize the results of the competition held by the Transport Committee. They announced that after February 1 they would still serve passengers on their previous routes, despite the fact that they were declared losers of the competition.

Previously, pensioners received additional payments only from the age of 65. A city law lowering the age limit was passed by the city parliament yesterday. St.

The heavyweight boxer claims that he only pushed aside the elderly guard of the St. Petersburg Spartak Sports Palace, no more In the last issue of NG we talked about the bad situation that world heavyweight boxing champion Nikolai Valuev found himself in. The athlete recently returned from Germany, and yesterday, meeting with journalists, he denied the information that he had beaten a security guard. “There was an overlap,” says the boxer.

“Damn it!..” I frantically search for something to grab onto. Slippery, as if oiled steps and a broken span of railings - yes, it would be great to come down from the sixth floor...

Last Friday, at a meeting of the tender commission chaired by Vice-Governor Oseevsky, envelopes were opened for the competition for the construction of the southern section of the Western High-Speed ​​Diameter (WHSD), which should become part of the high-speed multi-lane highways in St. Petersburg.

Today, in the City Court, the second hearing of the trial in the case of Oleg Makovoz, which began on Monday, is taking place in strict secrecy. The outside public is not allowed into the courtroom; even during the preliminary investigation, the lawyers were required to sign an undertaking not to disclose information constituting a secret of operational-search activity and... a state secret.

The State Fire Inspectorate is inspecting business centers in St. Petersburg for fire safety. This is a reaction to the tragedy in Vladivostok, where on January 16, during a fire in an office center, 9 people died and another 17 were seriously injured. At the same time, the recent Epiphany frosts caused a literal firestorm in the city on the Neva. Which, in general, is not surprising.