Novaya's columnist Boris Vishnevsky talks about why the dictatorship doesn't know how to deal with crises medical workers have died in St.

Deputy Sergei Gulyaev sent a request to the governor regarding the legal basis for the competition for designs for the Gazprom City skyscraper. And, accordingly, what could be the legal consequences of this event, organized by the gas monopolist together with the St. Petersburg administration. The answer from Smolny did not clear the fog. Quite the contrary: even more questions appeared. Who, when and how made the decision to hold a competition for Gazprom tower designs?

Today, the Primorsky District Administration will hold public hearings on the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the Northern section of the Western High-Speed ​​Diameter. According to the project, it should pass by the Yuntolovsky nature reserve.

Still, the main thing in life is determination. Sergei Mironov first decided to head the A Just Russia party list in the St. Petersburg elections, and then decided not to lead. The form in which the Speaker of the Federation Council announced the change in his plans is also very noteworthy: members of his party learned about them... from Mironov’s open letter to the leader of his main competitors, United Russia, Boris Gryzlov.

There is no need to convince anyone that endless traffic congestion has become a painful headache for the entire city. During rush hours, you can only move along many (not necessarily central) streets at walking speed. The extreme congestion of roads and the lack of personal responsibility of officials, apparently, prompted Smolny to decide to establish a new – “execution”, as they had already dubbed it – position under the city government.

“The European way of life is alien to the mentality of our people. Russians are fatally incapable of democracy.” How true are these statements, which have recently been actively introduced into the consciousness of Russian citizens? Rejection of the European way of life is tantamount to cutting off Russian culture from its European roots. And no matter what the apologists for a special path for Russia say, our people are one of the powerful branches of European civilization.

Having missed the houses on the corner of Nevsky and Vosstaniya Streets, which stood and stood and disappeared overnight (but what picturesque ruins, they even came from other cities to photograph!), the progressive public is now trying to save another island of old St. Petersburg, nearby.

How much has already been said that the seizure of the banks of reservoirs has reached the scale of a natural disaster! It’s time to draw up a map of losses: we are literally losing lakes one after another. On the site of once publicly accessible lawns and beaches, cottages are growing with strong fences surrounding them, forever blocking the opportunity for us to take a walk or swim.