Did a killer shoot a man by mistake? A certain Evgeniy Lyubimov was sentenced by the City Court to 20 years in a maximum security colony for contract murder. But no one was able to answer the question - was the person into whom Lyubimov put almost a whole clip of ammunition about six years ago exactly the one whom the killer was supposed to eliminate? Or was he an accidental victim?

April is the time to think high. Season. How to bring together the sky-high plans to “catch up and overtake” and the urgent needs - and even the whims - of real travelers walking on St. Petersburg soil? Will the G8 summit give an impetus to inbound tourism?.. The participants of the 5th annual business meeting “ConTour”, which gathered professionals from the said business yesterday at the Pulkovskaya Hotel, had more than enough topics for discussion. “Married with children” – this is what St.

Photo fact Yesterday, the police dispersed Limonovites in St. Petersburg, who were holding an action in the center of the city that was not authorized by the authorities against the blockade of Transnistria. Official reports speak of fifteen detainees. The National Bolsheviks themselves report that about forty people were detained, one of whom was injured.

For the “Dialogue of Cultures” media forum, which took place on Tuesday-Wednesday at the Hermitage Theater, a meaningful emblem was chosen. The shine of a rainbow over a raised bridge. The raised sections of the disconnected crossing are connected by a common connection - ephemeral and visible at the same time. Like the peoples of the former Union: now everyone is on their own, the interconnection of their cultures is a thing of the nostalgic past. Perhaps somewhere in the vague future.

A year and a half before the elections of the St. Petersburg city parliament, experts are already beginning to predict their possible results One of these forecasts was presented by Valentin Bianchi and Alexander Seravin from the Department of Political Psychology of St. Petersburg State University. Taking the results of the 2002 elections as a basis, they “recalculated” them based on the results of voting on party lists.

Surprises of St. Petersburg budget adjustments 2006 Yesterday the second reading of the law on changes to the city budget 2006 took place at the Mariinsky Palace. As expected (Novaya told about this story in March), in addition to the 1.3 billion rubles by which the budget was increased at the first reading, at the second it was adjusted by a much larger amount.

A new social movement against universal military conscription slavery is being created in St. Petersburg - “STOP call” Ivanov family There is no extreme, it’s not at all about everyone collectively avoiding the army, everything is quite politically correct. A social movement is just a form of expressing public opinion, and in this regard... well, you know.

“Novaya” has repeatedly talked about the hunger strikes of disabled Chernobyl survivors. Which do not require anything supernatural. But only the indexation of payments due to them - in compensation for harm caused to health, in accordance with the real level of inflation over the past years. The last hunger strike took place in January 2005 and was stopped when the health of its participants became critical. And now - a new promotion.

The project, which a year ago seemed like a complete utopia for the authors themselves and an ugly duckling in the eyes of officials, has become a reality, and besides, it materialized in St. Petersburg not without a certain charm. The event brought somewhat unexpected results even for those who had been struggling for a year to bring the idea to life. It turned out that films showing wards of social services in artistic images have a strong impact on employees of the relevant institutions.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia proposes a broad discussion of the rampant bestial nationalism in the northern capital “In St. Petersburg, as in a number of other cities in the country, attacks by national extremists continue; in a number of cases, innocent people, including children, are killed and seriously injured,” writes Vladimir, the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia.