Less than two months have passed since the high-profile arrest of the head of the Gatchina Vodokanal Lev Linchevsky. The director of a budget organization was accused of embezzling half a million rubles. The case is still under investigation, and it is possible that the amount of embezzlement will eventually increase. According to the most rough estimates, it could amount to about a billion rubles.

In response to the delay in payments from the Housing Committee of the St. Petersburg administration, the waste recycling plant MPBO-1 announced the suspension of receiving city waste from May 1. This is the next stage in the development of hostilities that have unfolded between the committee and the largest waste processor in the region, which has been going on for many years, as if in spite of utility services and citizens.

Yesterday, the magistrate of the 201st precinct of the Central District, Olga Vasilenko, began to consider the case in which Dilya Rainina, coordinator of the Khodorkovsky Defense Group, was accused of holding an “unauthorized public event” on April 27, namely a picket at the US Consulate General on Furshtatskaya Street, timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the end of this process.

In the last days of April, he challenged him to a duel, which was scheduled for the second week of May. Former tram driver, St. Petersburg radical oppositionist, head of the Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions Mikhail Druzhinsky - against the “damned Gascon” Mikhail Boyarsky. This is how the ex-tram driver, in his own way, defends the humiliated and insulted (in their estimation) residents of an old house in the Central District, where the daughter of a famous artist owns real estate.

Valentina Matvienko constantly talks about European living standards for the city; it would seem that the government itself should correspond to them, at least in a minimal form. However, the reality often turns out to be not at all European, but quite in the spirit of our authorities’ best friend, Turkmenbashi. Last week, the centenary of the State Duma was celebrated on a grand scale at the Tauride Palace. During the opening ceremony of the anniversary meeting, the St.

It is worth recalling that the need for a new competition was caused, among other things, by the prosecutor’s office, which noted numerous violations committed during the previous competition.

On the second attempt, court hearings began on the merits of the criminal case of the murder of Vietnamese student Vu Anh Tuan for nationalist reasons and a number of other attacks committed on foreigners. The jury was supposed to hear what the 17 thugs (a good half of whom were underage) were accused of on April 24, but then the hearings did not take place.

Artists of different generations - Hero of Socialist Labor Daniil Granin and dissident Mikhail Shemyakin agreed on their assessment of the modern Russian state and its attitude to art The writer Daniil Granin and the artist Mikhail Shemyakin had very different relationships with the state.