Five shareholders, owners of apartments in unfinished residential buildings, announced the start of a hunger strike. The action takes place on the premises of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party. The shareholders themselves say that the hunger strike is temporary and will last until May 27. The main demand of the starving people is the provision of the apartments they bought. They also demand a meeting with Governor Valentina Matvienko.

Governor Valentina Matvienko came up with a revolutionary initiative: one day a month, all St. Petersburg officials will travel to work and business meetings only by public transport, so that “many people have an adequate understanding of its work” and so that they experience first-hand all the delights of buses, trolleybuses and the metro.

Parliamentarians come and go, but their legislative initiatives remain for centuries. It would seem that Alexey Belousov has not been a member of the Legislative Assembly for a long time, but his scandalous amendment to the St. Petersburg law “On the protection of green spaces” lives and wins. Green Street for the construction of restaurants will destroy St.

The case of the “concrete jungle orderlies” can be considered closed The famous “case of the orderlies” culminated in a verdict in the City Court. True, only three of the eleven defendants were sentenced to real terms of imprisonment; most of the accusations crumbled due to limitation and lack of evidence, and the main accused himself, Vladimir Tikhonov, is still wanted. This scandal broke out in St. Petersburg eleven years ago.

“Do you want big money? Learn to earn money! Let’s make sure they want us…” With these words, the new director of the Mikhailovsky Theater, Vladimir Kekhman, began to build his relationships with his subordinates. He assures that in response they applauded him. And he also believes that the theater team is brilliant, the level is above average, everyone deserves a medal.

The city parliament has started the procedure for electing one of the important positions that has been vacant for three years - the chairman of the PCB. All this time, the city Chamber of Control and Accounts was led in the status of “i.e. O." Natalya Litvinova, but the deputies were in no hurry to make her a full-fledged chairman. And now she is one of four nominated candidates, but, as is believed, not the main one.

Chinese professor Gao Chunman was taken under his protection by the UN High Commissioner, and St. Petersburg officials handed him over to the Chinese authorities. Chunman, who was persecuted in his homeland, lived in St. Petersburg for the last fifteen years, but the issue of granting him political asylum was never resolved. Last Sunday, a 72-year-old seriously ill professor was deported to Beijing.