Old traditions of young Estonia No one is rich enough to not need a good neighbor. (Danish proverb) In Estonia, as throughout Europe, the end of World War II is celebrated in its own way. May 8 is the Day of the Defeat of Nazism and Remembrance of War Victims. May 9 – Europe Day.

“HR Policy”: a photo exhibition from “Echo of Moscow” in St. Petersburg, dedicated to the seventh anniversary of the St. Petersburg radio station, opened in the Peter and Paul Fortress. faces of famous people who did not have time to make a face The guests of Echo, caught by a photo lens during or after a live radio broadcast, are all famous people, stars of politics, culture, and sports. Here they are without the makeup and pomp usually required in public. In general, without a mask.

Today, the Charter Court, after an almost year-long (!) break, will continue to discuss the issue of the legality of the city government’s resolution of November 30, 2004 on the liquidation of retail outlets at public transport stops. True, this is no longer the same Charter Court that began to consider it - the composition of the court has changed significantly during this time, and its attitude towards the actions of the executive branch has changed even more.

Exactly a year has passed since here, in the park on the corner between Polytechnicheskaya Street and Thorez Avenue, a stone was laid on the site of the future monument to the residents and defenders of Leningrad. And now a rally took place again - at which local residents spoke unkindly about the local and city leadership.

“We won’t allow Morskaya Embankment to be buried!”, “We don’t want to live in the port and on the outskirts of the Western High-Speed ​​Diameter!”... Last Thursday, opponents of reclamation held a rally on Vasilyevsky Island.

An assassination attempt a week ago is a thankless task for comment. Almost everything that could be said about the shelling of the car of the actual owner of the Petersburg Oil Terminal, Sergei Vasiliev, has already been said. And yet. Let us remind you that his Rolls-Royce, along with its escort, was fired upon from machine guns in broad daylight on Levashovsky Avenue in Petrogradka last Friday.

The Day of the Fight against Fascism, the eighth of May, was celebrated at the Baltic House theater. The opposition gathered for the rally: Yabloko, anarchists, Memorial, Defense... Nashi also came along. In support of the action? Or express a sovereign-patriotic “fairy” to its organizers? How was the day of fighting world evil? Ethical considerations force us to assume the former.

Do they still kill or defend their homeland? Are they fulfilling their duty or taking the lives of their own kind?.. The ongoing debate about the reform of our army, about the fate of those people whose profession is war, takes on a sacred meaning in the May days in the post-Soviet space. In 1941, boys from school desks rushed to the front.