National Bolsheviks Mikhail Bashin and Sergei Chekunov will remain in custody until March 24. This decision was made by the Leninsky District Court of the Admiralteysky District. According to National Bolshevik lawyer Elena Shestakova, the prosecutor's office insisted that the St. Petersburg political prisoners belonged to an extremist organization - therefore it was advisable to keep them in custody.

“Greetings from the other world!” – St. Petersburg deputy Alexey Kovalev joyfully responded to a phone call from Novaya’s correspondent. Last Friday, leaflets appeared on Vasilievsky Island, which reported ... the murder of a deputy and that this fact was being carefully hidden from voters. Similar leaflets appeared in the Kirovsky district, where Kovalev’s colleague in A Just Russia, Sergei Andreev, allegedly became a victim of the crime. He also denies rumors of his death.

Was the Schreiber crusade against Darwin's theory blessed by the church? Not remembering kinship<> Last week, the October Federal Court of St. Petersburg rejected the claim of 16-year-old St. Petersburg resident Maria Schreiber, who demanded that the Russian Ministry of Education and the St. Petersburg Education Committee ban the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of the origin of species in schools.

The time when someone was elected in this country is becoming a thing of the past. The last intrigue that remains in the upcoming St. Petersburg elections is whether the Supreme Court will overturn the decision of the City Court to restore the SEPR party or leave it in force.

National household workers Law enforcement agencies outdid themselves: it took them less than a week to solve the crime committed in Pushkin on the evening of February 16. In total, on suspicion of attacking two citizens of Uzbekistan (35-year-old Fagret Naimov was killed, 33-year-old Pavel Kalandarov was seriously wounded - see NG No. 12, 2007), operatives detained ten teenagers. Seven of them are under arrest today. Six were charged with murder, one with hooliganism.

A St. Petersburg family that took out a bank loan to buy a new car is still paying for it with their nerves and household well-being. The car itself, taking into account all bank interest and fines, cost the family 300 thousand more than its retail value. The credit stories that banks lure clients into are increasingly reminiscent of horror stories Welcome to debt slavery Living in debt, yesterday still shamefully ephemeral, today is becoming an obsessive reality.

Alexander Veshnyakov’s visit to the northern capital did not soften pre-election morals Not every election to regional parliaments receives as much attention as those currently taking place in St. Petersburg. The visit of the Chairman of the Central Election Commission Alexander Veshnyakov to St. Petersburg was another confirmation of this. Along the way, Veshnyakov also looked into the Leningrad region.

The meeting of the Dzerzhinsky Federal Court, at which the interrogation of Nikolai Zavadsky, accused of complicity in the scandalous theft from the Hermitage, was supposed to begin on February 22, turned out to be extremely short. An associate professor of the Department of History at the Lesgaft Academy of Physical Education and Sports and head of the Department of General Humanities at the Institute of Business and Law told the court that he was still ill and had extremely poor hearing.

It seems that first blood has appeared in the Gazprom City project. This is exactly how we can interpret the fact that the background of the company that received the contract to prepare a construction site for Gazprom City includes a conflict between shareholders and even a high-profile murder, which is still unsolved.

Activists of the regional public organization “Nord-Ost” recently visited St. Petersburg. This organization unites relatives of those killed during the terrorist attack in the theater center on Dubrovka. At a meeting with representatives of Nord-Ost at the Memorial human rights center, the film “Terror in Moscow” was shown, telling the details of the tragedy, which were never widely publicized.