In the well-known St.

The latest actions of dissent in both capitals (read: mass beating of civilians) obviously provoke an image crisis of the current government. At the same time, in parallel - and with no less force - disagreements are growing within the very camp of opponents of Smolny and the Kremlin. Thus, among the participants in the only recently created Coordination Meeting of the St. Petersburg opposition, a clear split has already emerged.

As the years pass, the defendant lives comfortably at home. The mother of the murdered man, of course, demands an arrest, but the prosecutors answer with a smile: “A policeman? To Kresty? Come on." While chatting around the courts, the statute of limitations expired on all charges except one – 286, part 3 “Exceeding official powers.” They are now going to change it to something else. Very close, only the statute of limitations on it, quite by chance, turns out to be not ten years, but five.

Journalists entered into dialogue with the police and prosecutor's office “Will journalists be beaten at the next march?” – the chief editors of the St. Petersburg media asked the head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate Vladislav Piotrovsky and the city prosecutor Sergei Zaitsev. However, high-ranking security officials could not find an answer to this question. And the editors-in-chief, in fact, did not ask them any other questions.

Yesterday, magistrates again considered cases of administrative offenses, which - during the second Dissent March in St. Petersburg - were allegedly committed by a French citizen, ex-representative of the European Union in the North-West region, OSCE consultant Maxim Filandrov and a 66-year-old pensioner, blockade survivor, employee of the philology department St. Petersburg State University Vera Vinogradova.

At the April meeting of dissenters, this man read over the hushed crowd Galich’s “Petersburg Romance” with its famous refrain: “Can you go to the square at that appointed hour?” Actor of the Alexandrinsky Theater Alexei Devotchenko came out to Pionerskaya Square that day. Not as they go on the theater stage, where “the routine of actions is thought out,” but as they step into the unknown, where there is not cranberry juice, but blood, not Shakespearean passions, but real ones.

For an entire hour, people rallied on Lenin Square, calling on the authorities to preserve the natural monument Lake Yastrebinoye. For this purpose, residents of Petrozavodsk, the Leningrad region, St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Moscow and even those who now live abroad united. The interests of those gathered could be understood by looking around the meeting place: tourist tents were set up around, many were dressed in camping clothes.

“We have an order,” the “bludgeons” justified themselves in a nutshell when, at the Marches, dissenters were grabbed, beaten, put into buses and craters in generally peaceful and innocent citizens. They had orders. As some riot police admitted to close people: the personal command of the Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev “to use extremely tough measures (only - not firearms).” The order was carried out. And when they did it, they themselves were afraid of what they had done...

The head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the region, General Vladislav Piotrovsky, is burying his talent in the ground: he should serve in intelligence. And if his enemies had taken him prisoner, during interrogation he would not have revealed a single military secret.

Grigory Oster and deputy Alexey Kovalev swapped places. The author of the “Funny Problem Book” switched to the political field, striving to arrange a “children’s room” on the presidential website. And the fiery tribune of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly composed a funny mathematical problem, which, under the guise of a request, he sent to Governor Valentina Matvienko.

In St. Petersburg they remember Boris Yeltsin - the first Russian president was not one of those who, both during his life and after his death, leaves people indifferent to himself.

In the well-known St. Petersburg public at the traditional Autumn Salons, the Center for Books and Graphics gallery on Liteiny Prospekt opened an exhibition of enamels “In collaboration with fire.” The participants in the project, prepared by enamel artist Olga Lysenkova, who acted as curator, are mainly masters of enamel painting.