St. Petersburg public transport is catching up with Moscow “I don’t want to be a bad prophet, but according to the glorious tradition, immediately after the New Year, public transport may become more expensive.” May the reader forgive me for quoting my own recent article, but for some reason it is the bad forecasts that tend to immediately come true.

VIP prisoner Banker Kislitsyn celebrated the New Year in a prison cell The Petrograd Federal Court of St. Petersburg imprisoned the former vice-president of the St. Petersburg branch of VIP Bank Denis Kislitsyn. For abuse of official position and fraud, which resulted in the disappearance of 12 million rubles sent from the bank's head office in Moscow to the St. Petersburg branch, the banker received 4 years in a general regime colony.

At the groundbreaking ceremony for the General Motors plant in Shushary The successor's election headquarters will be headed by Russian governors Governor Valentina Matvienko, according to media reports, was considered worthy to head Dmitry Medvedev’s election headquarters in St. Petersburg.

On January 14, public hearings will be held dedicated to the project of the temporary regulation of development (VRZ) of the territory in which it is planned to build Okhta Center. It is this document that will finally and irrevocably approve the height of the development of the coast of the Neva opposite Smolny. "New" tried to analyze the project.

The “Disney” future of Hare Island is commented on by the rector of the Peter and Paul Cathedral, representative of the St. Petersburg Diocese on architectural and artistic issues, abbot ALEXANDER (Fedorov): About vanity — The concept of turning the Peter and Paul Fortress complex into some kind of entertainment center is, to say the least, puzzling. What generated this idea - the need to make money?

An alternative to a non-alternative policy: utopia - or is it?.. Welcoming 2008, the St. Petersburg opposition announced the creation of an all-Russian network protest movement. Carbonari begin to speak Albanian “If there is no one to vote for, then we must try to create a situation so that citizens can influence future elections,” explains the essence of the action, one of its initiators, Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Civil Initiatives Movement, historian, lawyer Evgeniy Kozlov.