In the complicated story of the murder of the operational duty officer and his assistant from the 66th police department of the Krasnogvardeysky District Department of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg, the jury had their say. Last week, a dozen assessors, after a three-hour discussion, delivered their verdict on the case.

Last Saturday became a bathing day for some St. Petersburg politicians.

The exciting series “Everyday Life and Holidays of Svetlanov Square” remains at the top of the hit parade for months (see Novaya No. 54, 60, 77). Apparently, the customer-developer of the next “BlinDonalts” planned for this quarter can no longer imagine himself without the rays of lenses, the sight of the press and the adoration of the extras.

Passengers of the St. Petersburg metro remained expressively silent as skinheads beat up a Tuvan journalist Election Saturday is called the Day of Silence - all campaigning is officially prohibited.

The chief St. Petersburg police officer, Lieutenant General Vladislav Piotrovsky, did everything possible to ensure that employees of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region voted without exception in the Duma elections. The police were even spared the need to go to polling stations. There are enough police stations.

St. Petersburg police told dissident Bukovsky: “We need to detain you” The second half of Vladimir Bukovsky's visit to St. Petersburg was accompanied, to put it mildly, by strange things.

The reader, unlike the author, already knows the result of the elections. And he can evaluate how well that “administrative resource” worked, the shameless use of which “Novaya Gazeta” talked about in the last two months... Of course, I would like to hope that it did not work as planned. Because we are not cattle, not slaves and not the electorate (that is, a disposable people). We are people.