Novaya has already talked about the scandal surrounding the construction of a 25-story building on the territory intended for a recreation area in an established residential area, not far from the metro station of the same name (see No. 27, 30). What especially frightens local residents is that a potentially dangerous (as follows from the documents of the Ministry of Emergency Situations) facility of Petersburg-Transnefteproduct OJSC is located almost on the construction site.

The maximum amount of expenses of the electoral fund for parties participating in future elections to the city parliament has been increased thirty times: from 20 to 600 million rubles. The corresponding changes to the law on elections of deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg were adopted yesterday in the third, final reading.

The tenth anniversary St. Petersburg Economic Forum was held on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Lenexpo exhibition complex. The organizers decided that the traditional Tauride Palace would be crowded, since the scope of the forum this year exceeded all previous ones. Some call the St.

“The Magic of Football” is the name of the retrospective at the Rodina Cinema Center, organized jointly by the Goethe Institute and the St. Petersburg Cinema Museum. The FIFA World Cup, which started in Germany, gave the go-ahead to a film program dedicated to this amazing game. There are people who divide humanity into football players and fans and everyone else. Well, just complete indifference to the diversity of human species! I think all people are football players in some way.

In former (historically ancient) times there was such a section: “The newspaper spoke - measures were taken.” Today there is no such section. But the spirit of former times has not disappeared from the offices of the Mariinsky Palace and Smolny. Unless the vector has changed to the opposite one. Now measures are being taken not against the person the newspaper spoke about, but against the person who spoke and... against the newspaper itself.

Activists of the United Civil Front celebrated Independence Day with a rally on St. Isaac's Square, speaking out against the infringement of citizens' rights. More than three hundred people gathered here represented various groups of the population: small businesses, residents of hostels, employees of problem enterprises... The list of claims accumulated against those in power was impressive. Citizens of St.

It would seem absurd: a deputy is deprived of his posts in the Legislative Assembly for publicizing debates within the walls of the city parliament. This is not about a secret meeting of counterintelligence officers! And about the people's representatives, whose activities, by definition, should be open and transparent. But that was not the case.

Governor of St. Petersburg, Prosecutor of St. Petersburg, Head of the Municipal Department of Internal Affairs, To the military prosecutor of the Leningrad Military District, Deputy Commander of the Leningrad Military District for educational work The public human rights organization “Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg” protests in connection with the increasing cases of violations of Russian laws during conscription.

Andrei Lapin, a former major of the Primorsky District Department of Internal Affairs, was sentenced to 20 years in a maximum security colony for attempting to blow up a judge of the Primorsky Federal Court, his former colleague in the internal affairs bodies, retired police colonel Vladimir Kazakov. The St. Petersburg City Court found that the motive for Lapin’s actions was revenge for the fact that Kazakov had sentenced him and his two comrades, threatening them with six years’ imprisonment.