If earlier oppositionists were detained because their actions were not approved in the prescribed manner, now they are being detained even when approval is not required by law at all. St. Petersburg Themis is considering another opposition case On September 25, a monument to Peter the Great by Zurab Tsereteli was solemnly unveiled at the Pribaltiyskaya Hotel.

At the end of last week, the already traditional second international conference “Border Cooperation between the Russian Federation and the European Union” was held in the capital of Karelia, Petrozavodsk. By the way, the first forum on a similar topic was held in November last year in St. Petersburg.

Today, Monday, in the City Court of St. Petersburg, two dozen jurors (one main, one reserve) will begin hearing one of the most scandalous and secret criminal cases of recent times. This is the case of three officers of the operational search bureau of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Northwestern Federal District, operatives from the “anti-corruption” department Mikhail Smirnov, Lev Pyatov and Andrei Bochurov.

The anti-conscription march, which took place yesterday in many cities of Russia and timed to coincide with the beginning of the autumn conscription, gathered about one and a half hundred participants in St. Petersburg. Half of them walked from the Sportivnaya metro station to Sakharov Square, the rest came straight to the square: the city authorities, as usual, refused to approve the procession (allowing only a rally).

The closer to the end, the louder the scandal. Three weeks later, the reconstruction of the lower floors of the legendary Singer House, on the corner of the Griboyedov Canal and Nevsky Prospekt, should finally be completed. More precisely, this should have happened last year, but some significant circumstances kept getting in the way. It is still unknown who will occupy the renovated space of the St.

“They won’t think it’s enough,” Valentina Matvienko promised, commenting on the events that took place on September 15–19 at the largest St. Petersburg meat processing plant “Samson” (“Novaya” talked about this in detail in No. 72 of 09.21.06). The governor showed who's boss. And everything seems to be correct. But it still remains unclear why exactly “it won’t seem like much.” And most importantly, who are “they”? What is hidden behind the raid by Chechen security forces on a St.

“Are we really living under feudalism? Hundreds of thousands of people fell into the second-class category!” These are, perhaps, the most correct slogans that were chanted by the participants in the all-Russian protest of hostel residents that swept through cities and villages the day before yesterday. On the banks of the Neva, the rally took place near the Vyborgskaya metro station, opposite the entrance to the Compressor plant.

The sentence against the organizer of the murder, Yuri Kolchin, and one of the killers, Vitaly Akishin, has already entered into legal force. And last Thursday, the active accomplice of the crime, Vyacheslav Lelyavin, and Pavel Stekhnovsky, who was involved in the case, were sentenced.