Yesterday in the middle of the day on the corner of Planernaya and Dolgoozernaya streets, not far from the Komendantsky Prospekt metro station, it was very crowded. There were especially many elderly people and teenagers. The buses that brought them to the rally dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident were waiting at a distance. Orders glittered in the sun, wheelchairs creaked, and a military orchestra played. Officials replaced each other on the podium.

If a person has a dacha, this is understandable - it means he loves nature. If this dacha is located in an elite village, it is also understandable - it means he has money. But if the happy owner is a well-known public figure, and also in the field of health and ecology, and the dacha was built almost on the border of the water protection zone of Lake Suzdal? This, you see, is a completely different calico. “Novaya” continues to walk through the areas of St.

Yesterday, the St. Petersburg City Court formed a jury that will render a verdict in the second case of the murder of Galina Starovoitova The majority of the jury was women, one of them became the foreman of the “judges from the people.” The board was formed of 22 people - 12 main assessors and 10 reserve ones.

There is a serious crisis at one of the city-forming enterprises in the city of Slantsy, Leningrad Region. The former management of Slantsy Plant OJSC, removed by the board of directors, is making every effort to prevent a new general director. Meanwhile, experts are talking about a possible environmental disaster. While new and old plant managers are being sorted out, an environmental threat is looming The Slantsy plant is a state-owned enterprise.

On April 5, liquidator Sergei Kulish went on a hunger strike in protest - he was outraged by the state’s policy towards disabled Chernobyl victims. Now it ends: Kulish’s health has become critical. After a week of wet and a week of dry hunger strike, he became very ill, and the doctors had to literally pull him out of the other world. Seven other Chernobyl victims who joined Sergei some time ago also ended their week-long warning hunger strike.

The editors of Novaya decided to empirically test the statement of the chief sanitary doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, that drinking Georgian and Moldavian wines is dangerous to life. We started with Georgian. And this is what came out of it. Tested: no one was poisoned by Georgian wine A group of volunteers gathered at the St. Petersburg restaurant “Kat at Mimino” with the firm intention of drinking until pesticides separate them from life.

Today, a ceremonial meeting of the State Duma dedicated to the centenary of Russian parliamentarism will be held at the Tauride Palace. Exactly a century ago, on April 27, 1906, the State Duma, elected by order of Emperor Nicholas II, met for the first time in the same palace.