From November 1 to November 5, the Arctic Sunrise ship was moored at the Promenade des Anglais. And during all this time people were coming to the ship. Or rather, he didn’t walk, but dodged between the moving cars. The fact is that both pedestrian parts of the embankment were closed to pedestrians. One is a blue plastic fence, the other has been turned into a ditch. With such “cordiality” the city on the Neva welcomed the famous Greenpeace ship.

An unusual trial is taking place these days in the Vasileostrovsky Federal Court of St. Petersburg. What is happening in the Temple of Themis is very reminiscent of a meeting of the Inquisition, especially since the case is being considered to protect the honor and dignity of Christians around the world. Themis got confused in the nuances of television art and the intricacies of faith Let us remind you: back in the summer of this year, St.

Although the presentation of preliminary designs for Gazprom City was planned in advance, it was not without surprises. Instead of one anxiously anticipated exhibition, two were opened on the same day: an official one and an alternative one. Moreover, it turned out that there were two Millers: in addition to the well-known head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, there was also the well-known artist Kirill Miller.

On Tuesday, November 7, a special youth law enforcement squad appeared on the interuniversity campus of St. Petersburg. The young heirs of the old voluntary people's squads say that their main task is to protect foreign students from attacks by extremists. Only Russians will protect the peace of foreigners - according to the law, foreign citizens cannot be members of the DND.

The other day it was officially announced who is to blame for the unprecedented outbreak of typhus at the Mozhaisky Military Space Academy (VKA). Let us recall (see NG No. 80), in October, about three hundred cadets of this military university were hospitalized, almost 70 of them were diagnosed with typhoid fever. According to the military, civilians are, of course, to blame for what happened. At the same time, the Ministry of Defense is dealing with the generals.

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, an exhibition of construction projects for the grandiose administrative and business center Gazprom City opened at the Academy of Arts.

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”) Pavel Markin has been with a camera for more than half a century An exhibition of the famous St. Petersburg photographer Pavel Markin opened in the exhibition hall of the Ioannovsky Ravelin of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Messages on the topic of alcohol lately sound like front-line reports: so many people died, so many more... And this - in peacetime, in a country that - at least at the official level - is so proud of its sustainable growth: they say, life has begun It’s better, life has become... no, I can’t even dare to say “more fun”... Will a “drunk” Security Council correct the situation?

If you come, they’ll stop you, if you don’t come, they’ll put you in prison... Social activists against conscription The public movement “STOP call” (http://stop-prizyv.spb.ru) is collecting signatures for an appeal to State Duma deputies against the approval of amendments to the Law on Military Duty and Military Service.

In recent days, information has appeared in the press that Yabloko intends to abstain from participating in the State Duma elections in 2007. How are things really going? And what about in the northern capital, where Democrats hope for success in the campaign for elections to the Legislative Assembly? Will Democrats go to the State Duma elections? The question of Yabloko's participation in the December 2007 elections to the State Duma will become a topic of internal party discussion.

Six notifications were submitted to Smolny for holding public actions on the day of the 89th anniversary of the October Revolution. They agreed on one thing: a rally of the RCRP at the Finland Station (by the way, recently this party, led by State Duma deputy Viktor Tyulkin, was unable to re-register, thereby losing its official status on January 1, 2007).