Deputies of the city parliament postponed the final approval of the law “On the circulation of alcoholic and alcohol-containing products in St. Petersburg.” Amendments will be made to the law, including those that small business representatives insisted on. However, claims to the law still remain. Deputies are against burnt vodka. Representatives of small businesses are against benefits for large businesses: if there are restrictions, then for everyone!

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”) Yesterday Galina Starovoitova would have turned exactly sixty - how incomprehensibly quickly time flies away!

At the very beginning of the new dacha season, our newspaper published the material “The House That Alex Built” (NG No. 31, 04/27/2006) from the series “Novaya’s walks through the areas of St. Petersburg VIPs.” There they talked in detail about the dacha of the famous St. Petersburg deputy, former chairman of the Health Committee of the St. Petersburg administration, Alexander Redko.

Yesterday, a Rosatom off-site meeting dedicated to the physical protection of LNPP was held in Sosnovy Bor. And at the highest level. It was attended by the head of the Federal Agency for Atomic Industry of the Russian Federation Sergei Kiriyenko, the head of Rostechnadzor Konstantin Pulikovsky, the governor of the Leningrad region Valery Serdyukov, representatives of law enforcement agencies, deputies of the State Duma and the Federation Council.

Here's to the triumph of the rule of law! It turns out that it’s not that sometimes in some places someone doesn’t want to live honestly – they don’t want to literally always and everywhere. Moreover - what is most important - not just anyone, but also the ubiquitous organs... But let’s leave philological research in the field of prosecutorial eloquence. The problem is really serious. And it applies to almost everyone. Or maybe touch. No one is immune from this.

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”) Dilyara Rainina, coordinator of the Khodorkovsky Defense Group, was fined. The activist was accused of holding an “unauthorized public event” on April 27 – a picket at the US Consulate General. The opposition claims: there was no picket...

Maeta Don’t look at the calendar: it’s May... It seems that the cup of patience has simultaneously run out among the inhabitants of various corners of the metropolis - from the north to the southwest, from the historical center to the outskirts. The second half of the last month of spring passes under the motto: not a day without protest.

Vadim Galushin, an employee of the operational unit of pre-trial detention center number 47/4 on Lebedev Street, had to experience the somersaults of fate the hard way.