The head of the Municipal Internal Affairs Directorate of the city and region, Vladislav Piotrovsky, will be summoned on April 25 to a meeting of the Legislative Assembly as part of the “Government Hour” to ask him questions about the latest March of Dissent. On Monday, a corresponding decision will be made at the council of factions, whose leaders previously agreed on this “invitation.” The initiative to summon Mr.

We, of course, are against dividing St. Petersburg residents and guests of our city who suffered during the march on April 15 into journalists and non-journalists. However, such a number of press representatives detained and beaten by riot police, as this Sunday on the banks of the Neva, is, of course, an unprecedented case.

The “reasonable man” is being replaced by the “reliable man” Tomorrow, a new deputy prosecutor general will be introduced to the staff of the Office of the Prosecutor General for the North-West. Last Friday, the Federation Council approved Alexander Gutsan for this position, replacing the retired Ivan Kondrat. Before that, he worked for two years as deputy director of the Federal Bailiff Service.

An outstanding monument of the Russian avant-garde, the Frunzensky department store, celebrates the International Day for the Preservation of Monuments in anticipation of a death sentence Achtung, investors! In 1942, besieged Leningrad, barely alive, found the strength to save the building of the Frunzensky department store, which had suffered from enemy bombing, from destruction - it was repaired and reopened to customers in 1944.

A major provocation at the March of Dissent was avoided only thanks to the principled position of the staff of the Theater for Young Spectators. As Novaya Gazeta found out, shortly before the march, hooligans hired by the Young Guard of United Russia came to the theater and asked to be allowed in, so that later, at the height of the rally, they would run out either in Berezovsky masks or in clown costumes, holding banners with provocative slogans.

Emmanuel BERARD, press attache of the Consulate General of France in St. Petersburg: During the march, riot police “neutralized” a French citizen and taught him Russian swearing French citizen Maxim Filandrov, detained on the day of the Dissent March in St.

“They say we don’t make a profit!..” On Tuesday, a spontaneous gathering took place in the Petrogradsky district: mothers came with their offspring, athletic and not-so-looking people of different ages. They performed for a long time and excitedly in front of the television cameras. No, this time there is no “disagreement” - on the contrary, full respect to the Smolny administration.

Governor of the Leningrad Region Valery Serdyukov intends to retain his post. To do this, in the very near future he is going to raise the question of trust in his person with the president. True, the timing of raising the issue has not yet been determined. The governor is clearly trying to gain the informal title of “Putin’s appointee” in order to have at least some guarantees before the future president.

As if by magic (which was a police baton), those who disagreed turned into outraged ones. In the near future they will again gather for a rally in the center of St. Petersburg. The police, without hiding sarcasm, say: let them rally, our country is democratic... The authorities failed to turn the situation around “over the knee.” But she managed to break several ribs and further radicalize the opposition A new rally is expected in St. Petersburg on April 27.

The Mariinsky Palace dreams of a constitutional revolution The initiative of Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov to discuss in the regions “in an informal setting” the possibility of changing the Constitution (in favor of a third term for Vladimir Putin or extending the presidential term to 5-7 years) was met with skepticism in the city parliament.