At the reception center of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate on Zakharyevskaya Street, 6, several dozen Georgian citizens are waiting in line for deportation. Court decisions have been made, but these people continue to sit in conditions that cannot be called human. They are not forcibly deported, but they are also not allowed to leave voluntarily - at their own expense or at the expense of relatives. “Let them sit!” - they say to the lawyers of the detainees in the reception center.

On October 15, 2003, Valentina Matvienko assumed her current position. The governor's supporters note her growing ratings and credit her for the steady increase in revenue to the city treasury. Opponents note the violation of many election promises, disregard for public opinion and lobbying for projects that are questionable for the city, but beneficial for businessmen. What has been done and what has not been done during Valentina Matvienko’s three years as governor?

The seizure of coastlines is gradually becoming the main problem in the vicinity of large cities. We are no longer talking about isolated cases of arbitrariness, but about a “system error.” In other words, under a given set of conditions - private ownership of land plus corruption - there simply cannot be any other result than the alienation of the coastline.

High-profile arrests are coming one after another. They take killers in batches, even those they didn’t think they’d see alive. Before the alleged killers of banker Andrei Kozlov had time to be caught, the St. Petersburg criminal investigation department detained two Ryazan residents - the Mikhalev brothers, suspected of an attempt on the life of the owner of Petersburg Oil Terminal CJSC Sergei Vasiliev.

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”) Rowan, in white in spring, red in autumn; wild rose that smells amazingly on summer evenings; a spherical willow, the shape of the dome...

On October 15, 2003, Valentina Matvienko assumed her current position. The governor's supporters note her growing ratings and credit her for the steady increase in revenue to the city treasury. Opponents note the violation of many election promises, disregard for public opinion and lobbying for projects that are questionable for the city, but beneficial for businessmen.