The day before Alexander Nikitin calls for abandoning the development of nuclear energy The public takes part in the discussion of G8 issues On the eve of the G8 summit, the Civil G8 summit will be held in St. Petersburg in July this year.

In February of this year, the outstanding conductor Maris Jansons won the Grammy Award, which is often called the musical Oscar. Connoisseurs of the classics know very well who Maris Jansons is. And yet let us remind you. Born in Riga in the family of the famous conductor Arvid Jansons.

Today the City Court will confirm with its verdict the verdict of the jury handed down last Friday in the case of four employees of the Nevsky District Department of Internal Affairs - Mikhail Agarkov, Dmitry Egorov, Sergei Lukyanchikov and Roman Dmitriev. The jury deliberated late into the night and did not come out with their decision until about 8 p.m. The verdict was not guilty: neither the defendants, nor their lawyers, nor the prosecution were prepared for such a decision by the jury.

The day after tomorrow, March 22, the VII international environmental forum “Baltic Sea Day” will begin in St. Petersburg, which will be attended by not only representatives of all countries of the Baltic region, but also many other European countries, plus the USA, the HELCOM secretariat, the European Commission Directorate, deputies of the Russian State Duma and Federal Assembly. What do people talk about on Baltic Sea Day?

Representatives of the opposition, who gathered for a rally near the Baltic House theater on Saturday, had plenty of room to roam. We are not talking about a spacious site in the Gorkovskaya metro area, but about informational reasons for a protest action, which the city parliament helpfully gave to the resisters. The democratically minded public sharply condemned two bills that were recently approved in the first reading at the Mariinsky Palace.

In November, we talked about the “Italian strike,” which was announced by workers at the Ford Motor Company plant in Vsevolozhsk, demanding to increase their wages and eliminate wage discrimination. At that time, the plant’s trade union was ready to move from half-measures to a full-fledged strike, but the company’s administration made concessions, agreeing to fulfill some of the workers’ demands. Now everything has happened again.

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”) Most recently, we talked about the plans of the management company “Marine Facade”, which intends to build a new business center on alluvial territories in the Gulf of Finland. A little later it turned out that Gazprom also has similar plans.